Illinois · Nonprofit
WESTERN SOCIETY OF ENGINEERS
WESTERN SOCIETY OF ENGINEERS (Illinois) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,700 to it, the largest being MILHOUSE CHARITIES ($3,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $36k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $7k
- Net assets
- $165k
What Western Society of Engineers does
Mission
The purposes of the Western Society of Engineers ("society"), as stated in its statement of purpose, is to actively encourage the development of engineering leaders and (1) to promote engineering excellence and innovation; (2) to educate the general public about the practice of engineering; (3) to recognize the achievements of its member engineers; and (4) to promote high professional and ethical standards.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
The society serves its constituencies and accomplishes its mission and vision in several ways:1.providing a forum for exchange of ideas between individual and corporate members;2.influencing the practice of engineering within the chicago region to accommodate changes in society and technology;3.offering high-quality educational products and services for members pursuing leadership and management goals;4.enhancing the image of engineering professionals as leaders in business and society;5.recognizing the society as a preeminent engineering management organization within the chicago region
$12,306 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $12,306.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $83k to $126k (+51%).
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.
100% of WESTERN SOCIETY OF ENGINEERS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $4k → $2k.
From the IRS filings of WESTERN SOCIETY OF ENGINEERS’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 SOCIETY OF ENGINEERS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
30% 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 SOCIETY OF ENGINEERS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of WESTERN SOCIETY OF ENGINEERS's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Against its field
WESTERN SOCIETY OF ENGINEERS's revenue fell 65% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,859 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
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In Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WESTERN SOCIETY OF ENGINEERS: 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 SOCIETY OF ENGINEERS?
- WESTERN SOCIETY OF ENGINEERS (Illinois) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,700 to it, the largest being MILHOUSE CHARITIES ($3,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WESTERN SOCIETY OF ENGINEERS have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $6,700 in grants to WESTERN SOCIETY OF ENGINEERS.
- Who is the largest funder of WESTERN SOCIETY OF ENGINEERS?
- MILHOUSE CHARITIES is the largest funder on record, with $3,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WESTERN SOCIETY OF ENGINEERS 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 3 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