Illinois · Nonprofit
Bringing Joy Inc
Bringing Joy Inc (Illinois) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,266 to it, the largest being CHUBB CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($2,750). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $100k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $4k
- Net assets
- $91k
What Bringing Joy Inc does
Mission
Bring joy to patients and to help them feel supported in their fight against cancer; Provide bags of JOY that include but are not limited to gift cards healing items and or essential gifts for those diagnosed with cancer; Provide boxes of JOY that include but are not limited to blankets healing items puzzles games and or essential gifts for those diagnosed with cancer; Provide support and essential gifts to those diagnosed with breast cancer; Sponsor fundraising events to assist in the mission of supporting those diagnosed with cancer; Engage in other activities related to supporting those diagnosed with cancer.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Delivered roughly 2,820 Bags of JOY to 11 different cancer centers 120 Veterans Bags of Joy 164 Bags of Hope 65 Kids Bags of Joy at an average cost of $13
$41,340 spent96% of program spendingDelivered 31 Boxes of JOY to 31 recipients at an average cost of $50 each.
$1,550 spent4% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $42,890.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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 2024 to 2025, from $56k to $91k (+62%).
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 Bringing Joy Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (87% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $1k → $2k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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 Bringing Joy Inc’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
Bringing Joy Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 64% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 71% — 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
Bringing Joy Inc draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $516 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
Bringing Joy Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,237 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,237 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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In Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
95%
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 Bringing Joy 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 Bringing Joy Inc?
- Bringing Joy Inc (Illinois) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,266 to it, the largest being CHUBB CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($2,750). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Bringing Joy Inc have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $4,266 in grants to Bringing Joy Inc, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Bringing Joy Inc?
- CHUBB CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Bringing Joy 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 2024–2025), 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