Illinois · Nonprofit
Chicago Foundlings Home
Chicago Foundlings Home (Illinois) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,932,888 to it, the largest being MARY HOOKER DOLE TRUST XXXXX7002 ($1,726,888). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $717k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $1.9M
- Net assets
- $6.4M
What Chicago Foundlings Home does
Mission
The Home currently provides support to charitable organizations that provide care, education and other services in community-based settings to expectant mothers, mothers, infants and children. Additionally, the Home provides required information on any adoption processed by the Home to respective adoptees, mothers who gave up their children for adoption and, if for medical reasons, to parents of the adoptees.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Programs that provide prenatal care and family planning services to teens and young adults.Rush Adolescent Family Center is one of the oldest, most respected prenatal and family planning clinics for teens. The Prenatal Care Program provides a full range of care, with prenatal counseling and education programs. The Family Planning Program provides confidential gynecological care, contraceptive and counseling services. The Community Education Program provides pregnancy prevention, family life education and reproductive health education to teens and preteens attending Chicago area schools and agencies.
$358,169 spentof which $350,000 as grants78% of program spendingPrograms to guide children in group housing situation to make healthy choices.The Mercy Home Friends First Mentoring Program provided one-on-one and group mentoring in grades 5-8 through three distinct models, all focused on socio-emotional growth and wellness. The Community-Based model provides the traditional one-on-one mentoring with monthly in-person outings over one year. The Workplace-Based model provides Bi-weekly mentoring sessions at corporate offices (Transunion/Faegre Drinker) for students transported from St. Malachy Catholic Elementary School. The School-Based model provides structured bi-weekly mentoring sessions held at Rowe Middle School.One Family Illinois(formerly SOS) Provides a viable alternative to traditional foster care, where children may stay with their biological siblings in private homes with a full-time trained foster parent and village-wide support.As part of Aid For Women, Heather's House provides safe and supportive places to call home for young women who are pregnant, parenting, or making an adoption plan.
$100,381 spentof which $85,000 as grants22% of program spendingThe Home provides required information on any adoption processed by the Home to respective adoptees, mothers who gave up their children for adoption and, if for medical reasons, to parents of the adoptees.
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $458,550.
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 2020 to 2021, from $5.0M to $6.2M (+23%).
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.
53% of Chicago Foundlings Home’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $21k → $372k.
From the IRS filings of Chicago Foundlings Home’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
Chicago Foundlings Home leans on a few funders — its largest provides 89% 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: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 94% · 2022 94% · 2023 93% — 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
89% of Chicago Foundlings Home's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
Chicago Foundlings Home runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Chicago Foundlings Home
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
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
32%
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 Chicago Foundlings Home: 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 Chicago Foundlings Home?
- Chicago Foundlings Home (Illinois) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,932,888 to it, the largest being MARY HOOKER DOLE TRUST XXXXX7002 ($1,726,888). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Chicago Foundlings Home have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $1,932,888 in grants to Chicago Foundlings Home, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Chicago Foundlings Home?
- MARY HOOKER DOLE TRUST XXXXX7002 is the largest funder on record, with $1,726,888 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Chicago Foundlings Home 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), 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