Illinois · Nonprofit
FAMILY TREEHOUSE
FAMILY TREEHOUSE (Illinois) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $115,731 to it, the largest being MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC ($50,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 83% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $347k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $116k
- Net assets
- $1.5M
What Family Treehouse does
Mission
Our sole mission is to battle childhood hunger. We do this in two ways. During the summer we provide free lunches and during the school year we provide weekend bags of food to children who might otherwise have nothing to eat.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
During the summer of 2023 our organization served a total of 100,237 free lunches to children who were at risk of going without lunch operating from Monday to Friday. This initiative aimed to address food insecurity among vulnerable children by ensuring they had access to nutritious meals during the summer months when they might not have access to school meal programs. The provision of these free lunches helped alleviate hunger and supported the overall well-being of these children during a critical time when they were at risk of food insecurity.
$85,201 spent72% of program spendingDuring the calendar year 2023 our organization distributed 40,000 weekend bags filled with nutritious food to children in 10 school districts facing food insecurity specifically targeting those at risk of going hungry over weekends when school meal programs are not available. These weekend bags play a crucial role in ensuring that vulnerable children have access to essential nutrition during the school year.
$33,107 spent28% of program spendingNot described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $118,308.
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 2023 to 2024, from $1.4M to $1.7M (+25%).
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.
100% of FAMILY TREEHOUSE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 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
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $27k → $26k.
3 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 83% 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 FAMILY TREEHOUSE’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
FAMILY TREEHOUSE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
96% 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 FAMILY TREEHOUSE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 89% · 2020 62% · 2021 81% · 2022 97% · 2023 81% — 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
83% of FAMILY TREEHOUSE'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 $20k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Illinois, across 2 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $96k 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
FAMILY TREEHOUSE 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 FAMILY TREEHOUSE
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
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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 FAMILY TREEHOUSE: 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 FAMILY TREEHOUSE?
- FAMILY TREEHOUSE (Illinois) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $115,731 to it, the largest being MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC ($50,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 83% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FAMILY TREEHOUSE have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $115,731 in grants to FAMILY TREEHOUSE, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FAMILY TREEHOUSE?
- MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FAMILY TREEHOUSE 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 2020–2024), 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