Illinois · Nonprofit
Can Do Kids NFP (an IL Not For Profit Corp)
Can Do Kids NFP (an IL Not For Profit Corp) (Illinois) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $486,422 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($292,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $507k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $486k
- Net assets
- $60k
What Can Do Kids NFP (an IL Not For Profit Corp) does
Mission
Can Do Kids International helps kids around the world experience Gods love by empowering their communities to meet their most basic needs. Our vision is miraculous transformation, physically spiritually, of kids in every community where God opens the door.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Water Systems Kenya and Malawi Can Do Kids finished the construction of 5 sustainable school/community water systems in Muranga County, Kenya and 1 in Chikwawa, Malawi that are providing direct access to clean water for 2,111 students every year in addition to school staff and thousands more community members within walking distance. The expected lifespan of each water system is 20-25 years.
$135,482 spent29% of program spendingEducation Programs Kenya, Malawi and Ukraine Can Do Kids sponsored 93 students primary, secondary, college and helped about 65 orphans in Kenya and Malawi. We also expanded the Hannah English School enabling it to add early childhood education. It is self-sustaining and serves 40 students in central Ukraine. In Malawi, we constructed two high school classrooms expanding the capacity of the communitys school by almost 50 students.
$121,534 spent26% of program spendingBible Programs Philippines, Kenya, Ukraine and USA. Can Do Kids provided curriculum, encouragement and financial support for Bible teaching ministries in all countries where we work. We have a curriculum of 4 years of Bible lessons in English and 3 in Spanish. We piloted the newest this year titled - WE BELIEVE - with a US CDK club. CDK also directly distributed 1,540 Bibles to 20 schools serving 5,826 students in Kenya. In Urkraine we assisted with summer outreach and camp ministries for 200 kids directly impacted by the war. In Philippines CDK provided school supplies and supplemental food to 250 Bible club kids and their families. In Malawi we provided a childrens feeding program through our Bible clubs.
$93,031 spent20% of program spendingProgram Service Expenses 118,810, Grants and allocations 0, Revenue 0 OTHER EXPENSE Community Development Ukraine, Kenya and Philippines 83,349 CDK sponstored the development of the first Common Grounds Community Center in Central Ukraine. This primarily serves internally displaced children and their families. In Kenya we partnered with local communities and churches to provide safe shelter for 10 people in two families. In the Philippines, we also assisted after a fire in our rural mountain outreach took the life of our key leader there. 35,461 was invested in CDKs other programs. This was mostly communication to program participants, prospects, supporters and partners of the ministry in the US and abroad. There were also a few small expenses that did not fit any other catagory.
$118,810 spent25% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $468,857.
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 2021 to 2022, from $150k to $22k (−85%).
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 Can Do Kids NFP (an IL Not For Profit Corp)’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (83% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Chief executive
Jennifer Roth
Executive Director
Board chair
Parker Scheuermann
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $149k → $33k.
5 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 64% 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 Can Do Kids NFP (an IL Not For Profit Corp)’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
Can Do Kids NFP (an IL Not For Profit Corp) leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
64% 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 Can Do Kids NFP (an IL Not For Profit Corp).
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 91% · 2020 100% · 2021 94% · 2022 54% · 2023 77% — 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
50% of Can Do Kids NFP (an IL Not For Profit Corp)'s funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 25% give in more than one year at all.
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
64% of Can Do Kids NFP (an IL Not For Profit Corp)'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 $175k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Illinois, across 2 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $312k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.
Against its field
Can Do Kids NFP (an IL Not For Profit Corp) has grown faster than half of the 3,482 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,482 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Can Do Kids NFP (an IL Not For Profit Corp)
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
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Can Do Kids NFP (an IL Not For Profit Corp)?
- Can Do Kids NFP (an IL Not For Profit Corp) (Illinois) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $486,422 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($292,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Can Do Kids NFP (an IL Not For Profit Corp) have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $486,422 in grants to Can Do Kids NFP (an IL Not For Profit Corp), 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Can Do Kids NFP (an IL Not For Profit Corp)?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $292,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Can Do Kids NFP (an IL Not For Profit Corp) 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 8 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