Illinois · Nonprofit
WILL-GRUNDY CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING
WILL-GRUNDY CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING (Illinois) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $279,921 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF WILL COUNTY ($153,950). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $280k
- Net assets
- $1.9M
What Will-Grundy Center for Independent Living does
Mission
The center informs persons with disabilities of their rights, educates them about their responsibilities, provides support services, promotes advocacy, and raises community awareness about disability issues.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The center operates for the purpose of enhancing independent living skills for persons with disabilities.
$881,909 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $881,909.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $1.6M to $2.1M (+25%).
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: 2017 64% · 2018 81% · 2019 77% · 2020 67% · 2021 53% · 2022 66% · 2023 62% · 2024 70% · 2025 73%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $57k → $10k.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 WILL-GRUNDY CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 5 of 6 funders by total. 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
WILL-GRUNDY CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 WILL-GRUNDY CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 58% · 2018 63% · 2019 72% · 2020 54% · 2021 100% · 2022 54% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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 WILL-GRUNDY CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $22k 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.
Government funding WILL-GRUNDY CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.2M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$2.2M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like WILL-GRUNDY CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING
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
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
79%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WILL-GRUNDY CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING: 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 WILL-GRUNDY CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING?
- WILL-GRUNDY CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING (Illinois) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $279,921 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF WILL COUNTY ($153,950). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WILL-GRUNDY CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $279,921 in grants to WILL-GRUNDY CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WILL-GRUNDY CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING?
- UNITED WAY OF WILL COUNTY is the largest funder on record, with $153,950 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WILL-GRUNDY CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 6 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