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CRATE FREE ILLINOIS DBA CRATE FREE USA

CRATE FREE ILLINOIS DBA CRATE FREE USA (Illinois) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $458,436 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($252,670). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 89% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$29k
Funders on record
9
Grants received
$458k
Net assets
$132k
4/9 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Crate Free Illinois Dba Crate Free USA does

Mission

Reduce suffering of animals on factory farms. Provide consumers with information to assist in making humane food choices, and provide informati0n to producers to assist in the transition away from inhumane and outdated practices. Provide information on current legislation and support local farmers and farmers markets.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Improvement of animal welfare practices in the retail supply chain

    $53,384 spent
    81% of program spending
  2. Promotion of local farmers in illinois

    $12,828 spent
    19% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $66,212.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($102k) Expenses 100 ($26k) Net assets 100 ($78k)2020 Revenue 14 ($14k) Expenses 181 ($47k) Net assets 57 ($45k)2021 Revenue 94 ($96k) Expenses 163 ($43k) Net assets 125 ($98k)2022 Revenue 66 ($67k) Expenses 201 ($53k) Net assets 144 ($112k)2023 Revenue 124 ($126k) Expenses 296 ($78k) Net assets 205 ($161k)2024 Revenue 100 ($101k) Expenses 303 ($79k) Net assets 234 ($183k)2025 Revenue 28 ($29k) Expenses 303 ($79k) Net assets 169 ($132k)
2019202020212022202320242025
Revenue (28)Expenses (303)Net assets (169)Peer revenue range

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 $45k to $98k (+118%).

$78k
$45k
$98k
$112k
$161k
$183k
$132k
2019202020212022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of CRATE FREE ILLINOIS DBA CRATE FREE USA’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 6,580 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.

$76k
’19
−$33k
’20
$53k
’21
$15k
’22
$48k
’23
$22k
’24
−$51k
’25

Leadership and staff

Chief executive

Lisa Lubin

Exec dir & b

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income fell $95k → $88k.

5 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 90% 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 CRATE FREE ILLINOIS DBA CRATE FREE USA’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

CRATE FREE ILLINOIS DBA CRATE FREE USA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

94% 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 CRATE FREE ILLINOIS DBA CRATE FREE USA.

55%
largest funder
86%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 98% · 2021 87% · 2022 90% · 2023 34% — 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

75% of CRATE FREE ILLINOIS DBA CRATE FREE USA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% 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

89% of CRATE FREE ILLINOIS DBA CRATE FREE USA'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 $48k that is directly attributable, 58% of it comes from Illinois funders.

IL
NY

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

’20
’23
Illinois out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $410k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

CRATE FREE ILLINOIS DBA CRATE FREE USA's revenue fell 72% between 2019 and 2025.

Operating margin−176% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−19% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,315 animals nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

IL

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Questions and answers

Who funds CRATE FREE ILLINOIS DBA CRATE FREE USA?
CRATE FREE ILLINOIS DBA CRATE FREE USA (Illinois) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $458,436 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($252,670). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 89% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does CRATE FREE ILLINOIS DBA CRATE FREE USA have?
IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $458,436 in grants to CRATE FREE ILLINOIS DBA CRATE FREE USA, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CRATE FREE ILLINOIS DBA CRATE FREE USA?
Silicon Valley Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $252,670 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CRATE FREE ILLINOIS DBA CRATE FREE USA 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 9 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