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WESTERN ILLINOIS DREAMERS
WESTERN ILLINOIS DREAMERS (Illinois) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $689,176 to it, the largest being ILLINOIS COALITION FOR IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE RIGHTS ($324,611). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $689k
- Net assets
- $119k
What Western Illinois Dreamers does
Mission
Wid seeks to empower immigrant and refugee communities by informing them of their rights and securing resources that will foster their successful integration into society.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2023 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
Erie house legal: wid did immigration legal screenings and intakes under erie neighborhood house's supervision. Legal experts at erie house trained wid's staff and provided legal supervision. Wid's legal staff participated in erie house's legal staff meeting and case analysis sessions.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
Idhs welcoming centers: this program offered information, assistance, and resources to fulfill the basic needs of immigrants, refugees, and english learners who visited our one-stop welcoming centers' offices.
$580,000 spentof which $72,142 as grants55% of program spendingSba asylum seekers: this program resettled asylum seekers who arrived in the us through the southern border to the city of peoria, providing them with case management, housing assistance, and essential household items.
$138,518 spent13% of program spendingA2j navigators: this program provided education about the constitutional, labor, and tenants' rights to immigrants and refugees.
$96,997 spent9% of program spendingOther programs: eviction prevention program, public health program, daca applications program, emergency assistance program, scholarship program, fiscal sponsor
$233,798 spent$10 earned by the program22% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,049,313.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $151k to $356k (+136%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 81% · 2022 67% · 2023 63% · 2024 67%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
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
Julia Albarracin
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $69k → $159k.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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 WESTERN ILLINOIS DREAMERS’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
WESTERN ILLINOIS DREAMERS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
99% 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 WESTERN ILLINOIS DREAMERS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 93% — diversifying over time.
“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.
Where its funders are
100% of WESTERN ILLINOIS DREAMERS's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $80k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Organizations like WESTERN ILLINOIS DREAMERS
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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WESTERN ILLINOIS DREAMERS: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds WESTERN ILLINOIS DREAMERS?
- WESTERN ILLINOIS DREAMERS (Illinois) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $689,176 to it, the largest being ILLINOIS COALITION FOR IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE RIGHTS ($324,611). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WESTERN ILLINOIS DREAMERS have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $689,176 in grants to WESTERN ILLINOIS DREAMERS, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WESTERN ILLINOIS DREAMERS?
- ILLINOIS COALITION FOR IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE RIGHTS is the largest funder on record, with $324,611 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WESTERN ILLINOIS DREAMERS 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2021–2024), and the filings of 7 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