Illinois · Nonprofit
CARDS FOR HOSPITALIZED KIDS INC
CARDS FOR HOSPITALIZED KIDS INC (Illinois) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $109,024 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($59,154). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $128k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $109k
- Net assets
- $73k
What Cards for Hospitalized Kids Inc does
Mission
Cards for hospitalized kids is an organization that spreads hope, joy and magic to hospitalized kids across america through uplifting, handmade cards. Thesecards are distributed to children's hospital and ronald mcdonald houses in all 50 states.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
To distribute hand made cards to children's hospitalized in all 50 states.
$40,397 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $40,397.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
2 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 59% 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 CARDS FOR HOSPITALIZED KIDS 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
CARDS FOR HOSPITALIZED KIDS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
59% 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 CARDS FOR HOSPITALIZED KIDS INC.
“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
59% of CARDS FOR HOSPITALIZED KIDS INC'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 $45k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Illinois, across 4 states.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $64k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
CARDS FOR HOSPITALIZED KIDS INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 21,616 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,616 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like CARDS FOR HOSPITALIZED KIDS INC
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In Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CARDS FOR HOSPITALIZED KIDS 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 CARDS FOR HOSPITALIZED KIDS INC?
- CARDS FOR HOSPITALIZED KIDS INC (Illinois) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $109,024 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($59,154). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CARDS FOR HOSPITALIZED KIDS INC have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $109,024 in grants to CARDS FOR HOSPITALIZED KIDS INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CARDS FOR HOSPITALIZED KIDS INC?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $59,154 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CARDS FOR HOSPITALIZED KIDS 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 FY2024 (financials across 2024–2024), 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