Illinois · Nonprofit
CRUELTY FREE YOU PLUS ME
CRUELTY FREE YOU PLUS ME (Illinois) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $47,979 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($36,900). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 77% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $74k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $48k
- Net assets
- $61k
What Cruelty Free You Plus Me does
Mission
To make the world a more compassionate place one day at a time. We are doing this by providing outreach and education to children and families surrounding veganism and animal/human rights, making plant based options accessible in under-resourced communities, and by providing awareness and support for animal sanctuaries in the Midwest.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Outreach and education provided to children and families through weekly story time and art projects at Wicker Park farmers market as well as other markets throughout Chicagoland
$36,179 spent82% of program spendingPlant based food and supply drives - various food and supply drives held throughout the city as well as online to support under resourced communities in Chicago. Food and goods received donated to various nonprofit organizations in various under resourced communities such as Englewood, Pilsen, and West Humboldt Park. Projects included in this program service area also include mainly Christmas toy drive benefiting under resourced West Humboldt Park students.
$7,013 spentof which $4,000 as grants16% of program spendingAnimal sanctuary support - donations made to Sol Criations and other animal sanctuaries to aid in their animal rescue and sanctuary work.
$963 spent2% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $44,155.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2023 to 2024, from $40k to $62k (+55%).
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.
97% of CRUELTY FREE YOU PLUS ME’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Victoria Hiatt
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income rose $2k → $4k.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 77% 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 CRUELTY FREE YOU PLUS ME’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
CRUELTY FREE YOU PLUS ME leans on a few funders — its largest provides 77% 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
100% 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 CRUELTY FREE YOU PLUS ME.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 96% · 2022 67% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
77% of CRUELTY FREE YOU PLUS ME'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 $11k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Illinois, across 1 state.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $37k 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
CRUELTY FREE YOU PLUS ME runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,230 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,230 food & nutrition nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like CRUELTY FREE YOU PLUS ME
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.
Public support
98%
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 CRUELTY FREE YOU PLUS ME: 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 CRUELTY FREE YOU PLUS ME?
- CRUELTY FREE YOU PLUS ME (Illinois) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $47,979 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($36,900). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 77% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CRUELTY FREE YOU PLUS ME have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $47,979 in grants to CRUELTY FREE YOU PLUS ME, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CRUELTY FREE YOU PLUS ME?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $36,900 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CRUELTY FREE YOU PLUS ME 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 2021–2024), 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