Illinois · Nonprofit
DEBRA GELFAND CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION
DEBRA GELFAND CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION (Illinois) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $166,775 to it, the largest being CLESS FAMILY FOUNDATION ($140,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $104k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $167k
- Net assets
- $196k
What Debra Gelfand Children's Foundation does
Mission
The purpose for which the corporation is organized is to raise and expend funds and provide emergency support to needy, low-income, and in-crisis families in the glenview community consolidated school district 34 in emergency situations.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Mental health support
$30,000 spentof which $30,000 as grants18% of program spendingShoes and clothes
$48,192 spentof which $48,192 as grants29% of program spendingHousing costs
$16,716 spentof which $16,716 as grants10% of program spendingStudent items, books, school supplies, eyeglasses, and other
$72,108 spentof which $65,974 as grants43% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $167,016.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2024 to 2025, from $259k to $201k (−22%).
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.
94% of DEBRA GELFAND CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $28k → $17k.
3 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 DEBRA GELFAND CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION’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
DEBRA GELFAND CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 84% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 91% · 2021 94% · 2022 79% · 2023 87% — 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
95% of DEBRA GELFAND CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $17k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
DEBRA GELFAND CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like DEBRA GELFAND CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION
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
99%
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 DEBRA GELFAND CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: 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 DEBRA GELFAND CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION?
- DEBRA GELFAND CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION (Illinois) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $166,775 to it, the largest being CLESS FAMILY FOUNDATION ($140,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DEBRA GELFAND CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $166,775 in grants to DEBRA GELFAND CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DEBRA GELFAND CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION?
- CLESS FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $140,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DEBRA GELFAND CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 7 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