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BREWING OPPORTUNITIES NFP DBA GERRYS CAFE

BREWING OPPORTUNITIES NFP DBA GERRYS CAFE (Illinois) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $443,772 to it, the largest being Network for Good ($235,972). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 85% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$893k
Revenue FY2024
16
Funders on record
$444k
Grants received
$946k
Net assets
5/16 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 33%

Against its field

BREWING OPPORTUNITIES NFP DBA GERRYS CAFE has grown faster than three-quarters of the 21,584 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−9% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve6.9mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)65% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,584 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($44k) Expenses 100 ($2k) Net assets 100 ($42k)2019 Revenue 745 ($328k) Expenses 924 ($23k) Net assets 835 ($347k)2020 Revenue 366 ($161k) Expenses 1144 ($29k) Net assets 1154 ($479k)2021 Revenue 528 ($232k) Expenses 1033 ($26k) Net assets 1652 ($686k)2022 Revenue 432 ($190k) Expenses 1516 ($38k) Net assets 2019 ($838k)2023 Revenue 1319 ($580k) Expenses 26597 ($663k) Net assets 1817 ($754k)2024 Revenue 2029 ($893k) Expenses 39133 ($976k) Net assets 2279 ($946k)
2018201920202021202220232024
Revenue (2029)Expenses (39133)Net assets (2279)Peer revenue range

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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

50% of BREWING OPPORTUNITIES NFP DBA GERRYS CAFE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 23,813 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$42k
18
$305k
19
$133k
20
$207k
21
$152k
22
$83k
23
$83k
24
6.9
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $42k → $120k.

7 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)85% 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 BREWING OPPORTUNITIES NFP DBA GERRYS CAFE’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

BREWING OPPORTUNITIES NFP DBA GERRYS CAFE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

93% 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 BREWING OPPORTUNITIES NFP DBA GERRYS CAFE.

53%
largest funder
84%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 85% · 2020 94% · 2021 96% · 2022 95% · 2023 42%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.

How long its funders stay

40% of BREWING OPPORTUNITIES NFP DBA GERRYS CAFE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 31% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

85% of BREWING OPPORTUNITIES NFP DBA GERRYS CAFE's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $67k that is directly attributable, 78% of it comes from funders outside Illinois, across 7 states.

IL
MA
PA
NJ
MO
NC
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

19
20
21
22
23
Illinois out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $377k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 16 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like BREWING OPPORTUNITIES NFP DBA GERRYS CAFE

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Illinois

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

88% of spending goes to programs.

Program 88%Management 11%Fundraising 1%

Governance

12
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

97%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

IL

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BREWING OPPORTUNITIES NFP DBA GERRYS CAFE: 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds BREWING OPPORTUNITIES NFP DBA GERRYS CAFE?
BREWING OPPORTUNITIES NFP DBA GERRYS CAFE (Illinois) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $443,772 to it, the largest being Network for Good ($235,972). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 85% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does BREWING OPPORTUNITIES NFP DBA GERRYS CAFE have?
IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $443,772 in grants to BREWING OPPORTUNITIES NFP DBA GERRYS CAFE, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BREWING OPPORTUNITIES NFP DBA GERRYS CAFE?
Network for Good is the largest funder on record, with $235,972 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BREWING OPPORTUNITIES NFP DBA GERRYS CAFE 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.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 16funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing