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WESLEY WILLOWS

WESLEY WILLOWS (Illinois) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $246,197 to it, the largest being Community Foundation of Northern IL ($108,979). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 63% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$8.9M
Funders on record
9
Grants received
$246k
Net assets
$47M
5/9 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%
01What it does

What Wesley Willows does

Mission

Wesley Willows' mission statement is "we promote active, secure lifestyles for seniors through ongoing personalized care". Wesley Willows' cause statement is "inspiring seniors to celebrate life".

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Wesley Willows provides housing and related services for approximately 150 senior citizens with a policy to maintain residents that become unable to pay. Related services include laundry, housekeeping, meals, nursing, programming activities, transportation and chaplaincy. Wesley Willows' purpose is to promote christian principles for the intellectual, moral, spiritual and physical development and improvement of persons of retirement age, including the promotion of harmony, health and happiness of such persons in accordance with Wesley Willows' mission statement: we promote active, secure lifestyles for seniors through ongoing personalized care; and cause statement: inspiring seniors to celebrate life.

    $7,447,984 spentof which $828,951 as grants$4,964,374 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $7,447,984.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($6.6M) Expenses 100 ($5.5M) Net assets 100 ($31M)2018 Revenue 115 ($7.6M) Expenses 107 ($5.9M) Net assets 108 ($33M)2019 Revenue 106 ($7.0M) Expenses 112 ($6.2M) Net assets 118 ($36M)2020 Revenue 110 ($7.3M) Expenses 113 ($6.3M) Net assets 121 ($37M)2021 Revenue 114 ($7.5M) Expenses 108 ($6.0M) Net assets 147 ($45M)2022 Revenue 101 ($6.7M) Expenses 108 ($6.0M) Net assets 127 ($39M)2023 Revenue 94 ($6.2M) Expenses 119 ($6.6M) Net assets 131 ($41M)2024 Revenue 137 ($9.1M) Expenses 130 ($7.2M) Net assets 146 ($45M)2025 Revenue 135 ($8.9M) Expenses 160 ($8.8M) Net assets 153 ($47M)
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Revenue (135)Expenses (160)Net assets (153)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $49M to $42M (−14%).

$35M
$38M
$41M
$44M
$49M
$42M
$43M
$47M
$51M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

20% of WESLEY WILLOWS’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (39% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,214 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$1.1M
’17
$1.7M
’18
$753k
’19
$1.0M
’20
$1.5M
’21
$690k
’22
−$382k
’23
$1.9M
’24
$65k
’25
0.2
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

Chief executive

Frances Salinas

President & CEO

Board chair

David Schmitt

Board Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.

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Listed141414131416181521
Joined·+3+2+2+1+3+3+0+8
No longer listed·32301132
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $20k → $17k.

4 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 63% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of WESLEY WILLOWS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

WESLEY WILLOWS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

63% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund WESLEY WILLOWS.

44%
largest funder
81%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 90% · 2018 85% · 2019 81% · 2020 91% · 2021 49% · 2022 91% · 2023 91% — broadly stable.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How long its funders stay

67% of WESLEY WILLOWS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

63% of WESLEY WILLOWS's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $92k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Illinois funders.

IL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Illinois out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $154k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

WESLEY WILLOWS's revenue grew 35% between 2017 and 2025.

Operating margin1% · below the median
Months of reserve0.2mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)4% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,196 housing & shelter nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like WESLEY WILLOWS

Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Illinois

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

84% of spending goes to programs.

Program 84%Management 15%Fundraising 1%

Governance

11
board members
91%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

76%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 4 related entities

  • Willows Health Center · exempt
  • Willows Cottages · exempt
  • North Rockford Convalescent Home · exempt
  • Highview Retirement Home Association · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds WESLEY WILLOWS?
WESLEY WILLOWS (Illinois) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $246,197 to it, the largest being Community Foundation of Northern IL ($108,979). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 63% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does WESLEY WILLOWS have?
IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $246,197 in grants to WESLEY WILLOWS, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of WESLEY WILLOWS?
Community Foundation of Northern IL is the largest funder on record, with $108,979 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like WESLEY WILLOWS find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 9 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing