Illinois · Nonprofit
AMITY SOCIETY OF FREEPORT INC
AMITY SOCIETY OF FREEPORT INC (Illinois) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $566,229 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF NORTHWEST ILLINOIS INC ($381,881). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.0M
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $566k
- Net assets
- $3.2M
What Amity Society of Freeport Inc does
Mission
An organization of volunteers, professional staff, and families working together to ensure that quality early childhood education, school age programs, and parent support services are available to all families on an equitable basis. The society services the community in northwest illinois, primarily stephenson county, illinois. The society provides for early education through the amity learning center of freeport, a national association for the early education of young children-accredited and illinois department of children and family services-licensed organization, serving children from 6 weeks to 12 years old through a creative curriculum. Additionally, the society supports the community by operating a local thrift shop and managing a community campus that houses their operations, as well as after school programs and other community organizations with the same community-based focus.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Daycare services to preschool and infant children of families whose income falls within the guidelines for qualifying for the dhs child care subsidy.
$1,758,611 spent$1,181,165 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,758,611.
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 2023 to 2024, from $2.7M to $3.2M (+18%).
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 59% · 2018 64% · 2019 65% · 2020 66% · 2021 73% · 2022 72% · 2023 77% · 2024 76% · 2025 77%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
92% of AMITY SOCIETY OF FREEPORT INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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 broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $52k → $88k.
1 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 AMITY SOCIETY OF FREEPORT INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 6 of 7 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
AMITY SOCIETY OF FREEPORT INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 67% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
77% 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 AMITY SOCIETY OF FREEPORT INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 87% · 2022 81% · 2023 45% — 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
91% of AMITY SOCIETY OF FREEPORT INC's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $32k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Against its field
AMITY SOCIETY OF FREEPORT INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like AMITY SOCIETY OF FREEPORT INC
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
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 AMITY SOCIETY OF FREEPORT INC: 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 AMITY SOCIETY OF FREEPORT INC?
- AMITY SOCIETY OF FREEPORT INC (Illinois) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $566,229 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF NORTHWEST ILLINOIS INC ($381,881). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AMITY SOCIETY OF FREEPORT INC have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $566,229 in grants to AMITY SOCIETY OF FREEPORT INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AMITY SOCIETY OF FREEPORT INC?
- UNITED WAY OF NORTHWEST ILLINOIS INC is the largest funder on record, with $381,881 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AMITY SOCIETY OF FREEPORT INC 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 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