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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS FOUNDATION

EIN 37-6006007 CHAMPAIGN, IL

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Revenue 2023
$671,293,663
Expenses 2023
$347,825,062

Program services were 78.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B110
Classification
1200
Street
303 SAINT MARYS RD

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2023

Mission

The Foundation, a 501(c)(3) charitable organization, is an independent and separate nonprofit entity from the University of Illinois. Our mission is to encourage and administer private gifts and serve the UI System by working closely with alumni, faculty, corporations, foundations, and development staff to create fundraising programs and opportunities that benefit the University of Illinois.

Activities or mission (Part I)

The University of Illinois Foundation's corporate mission is to advance the interests and welfare of the University of Illinois. As stated in its Articles of Incorporation, the role of the Foundation is procuring private support on behalf of the University. The Foundation functions as the independent official fundraising and private gift-receiving organization for the University of Illinois. The Foundation works hand-in-hand with the President of the University of Illinois System and the Chancellor for each university to identify strategic private support priorities, create suitable fundraising strategies and tactics, and implement and evaluate appropriate development programs. In its role of developing private gifts, the Foundation leads the effort to plan and mount special fundraising initiatives, as well as annual giving programs and major capital campaigns, working in collaboration with a network of University development professionals.

  • The University of Illinois Foundation makes distributions to the University of Illinois which uses these distributions in accordance with donor intent for many purposes, including student support, faculty support, and research.

    Expenses $272,892,061 · Grants $272,892,061 · Revenue $329,798,907

As filed on the 2023 return.

Officers and directors · 2023

As listed in Part VII of the 2023 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Anthony G DiTommaso

    Immediate Past Chair of the Board

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Karen M Golz

    Chair-Elect

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Richard C Osborne

    Chair of the Board

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • A Helen McGrath

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Alan D Feldman

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Alejandra Garza

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Beth Georgia Gies

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Cynthia M Helle

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Deborah A Paul

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Donald E Bielinski

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Jean M Manning

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Jose L Santillan

    Director - end Oct '23

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Julie A Kellner

    Director - Begin Oct '23

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Kay M Schwichtenberg

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Khawar M Siddique

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Laura L Fraley

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Leon J Loichle

    Director - end Oct '23

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Mark D Coe

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Mary Ellen Penicook

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Mary Kay Haben

    Director - end Oct '23

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Paul T Tucker

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Sam Mendenhall

    Director - end Oct '23

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Saul J Morse

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Shakeeb Alam

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Stuart L Levenick

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

The first 25 listed. Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2023
    Revenue
    $671,293,663
    Expenses
    $347,825,062
    Contributions
    $314,244,685
    Grants paid
    $272,892,061
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $450,262,389
    Expenses
    $334,547,134
    Contributions
    $258,378,863
    Grants paid
    $269,256,903

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2023 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2022 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $360,635,048
    Expenses
    $297,745,609
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,049,278,109

  • 2021 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $391,520,907
    Expenses
    $329,216,783
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,228,186,729

  • 2020 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $352,648,216
    Expenses
    $272,525,171
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,568,738,108

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $443,266,687
    Expenses
    $260,149,319
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,539,518,233

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $413,571,912
    Expenses
    $255,958,552
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,369,656,361

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $270,225,817
    Expenses
    $236,779,338
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,125,767,493

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2023 return

Declared as related by

Taxable family

From Schedule R Parts I, III and IV: entities that legally are the filer, and taxable partnerships, corporations and trusts it is related to. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money.

Disregarded entities on its 2023 return

  • University of Illinois Foundation UK Limited

    To provide support for education and the University of Illinois · UK · income $16,400 · assets $6,500

  • UIF Plymouth Court LLC

    To provide support for education and the University of Illinois · IL · assets $32,800,000

Related corporations and trusts on its 2023 return

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 11 November 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2023, the newest we have parsed for this organization.