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FILL A HEART 4 KIDS

FILL A HEART 4 KIDS (Illinois) receives grants from 74 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,188,358 to it, the largest being NORTH SHORE EXCHANGE NFP ($95,000). 41 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$547k
Funders on record
74
Grants received
$1.2M
Net assets
$992k
41/74 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 22%
01What it does

What Fill a Heart 4 Kids does

Mission

Fill a Heart 4 Kids provides over 2000 local homeless, at-risk & foster children food, critical necessities, educational support & life skills opportunities to empower and "build brighter futures 4 kids"

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Fill a Heart 4 Kids supplies critical necessities for over 2,500 children in need of single serve meals, clothing, toiletries for dignity, mentorship, tutoring, and school supplies to help "build brighter futures" for chicagoland at-risk children and communities.from january 2025 - june 30, 2025, we provided 214,919 servings of food to nourish children without access to food pantries. We hand-delivered 5,387 units of seasonal clothing, including winter coats, snow pants, hats, and gloves, to mckinney-vento children. A total of 7,972 "toiletries 4 dignity" kits were distributed, helping children feel more confident, clean, and ready for school. We also gave $10,645 in fast food gift cards to homeless youth, offering them a way to warm up, enjoy a meal with dignity, and stay off the streets at night."

    $508,999 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $508,999.

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 ($652k) Expenses 100 ($579k) Net assets 100 ($142k)2020 Revenue 142 ($927k) Expenses 125 ($724k) Net assets 243 ($345k)2021 Revenue 216 ($1.4M) Expenses 205 ($1.2M) Net assets 399 ($565k)2022 Revenue 212 ($1.4M) Expenses 216 ($1.3M) Net assets 489 ($692k)2023 Revenue 259 ($1.7M) Expenses 237 ($1.4M) Net assets 713 ($1.0M)2024 Revenue 234 ($1.5M) Expenses 255 ($1.5M) Net assets 749 ($1.1M)2025 Revenue 84 ($547k) Expenses 106 ($615k) Net assets 701 ($992k)
2019202020212022202320242025
Revenue (84)Expenses (106)Net assets (701)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 2022 to 2023, from $717k to $1.6M (+118%).

$142k
$359k
$589k
$717k
$1.6M
$1.6M
$1.5M
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

99% of FILL A HEART 4 KIDS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 23,870 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$74k
’19
$203k
’20
$220k
’21
$127k
’22
$317k
’23
$51k
’24
−$68k
’25
16
months of
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.

2019202020212022202320242025
Listed7101715161716
Joined·+6+9+2+1+2+0
No longer listed·324011
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 27 funders, grant income rose $16k → $216k.

14 of 74 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% 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 FILL A HEART 4 KIDS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 74 funders by total. 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

FILL A HEART 4 KIDS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 8% of grant income, and it takes 8 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 8 funders to its left

47% 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 FILL A HEART 4 KIDS.

8%
largest funder
23%
top three
~23
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 62% · 2020 29% · 2021 18% · 2022 17% · 2023 16% — 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

26% of FILL A HEART 4 KIDS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

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

75% of FILL A HEART 4 KIDS's grant income comes from Illinois funders.

ME
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
NV
SD
OH
PA
CT
CA
DE
NC
GA
FL

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

’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Illinois out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $408k arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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

FILL A HEART 4 KIDS holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−12% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve16.2mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−3% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like FILL A HEART 4 KIDS

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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

83% of spending goes to programs.

Program 83%Management 17%Fundraising 0%

Governance

17
board members
94%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

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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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FILL A HEART 4 KIDS: 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 FILL A HEART 4 KIDS?
FILL A HEART 4 KIDS (Illinois) receives grants from 74 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,188,358 to it, the largest being NORTH SHORE EXCHANGE NFP ($95,000). 41 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does FILL A HEART 4 KIDS have?
IRS filings report 74 organizations giving $1,188,358 in grants to FILL A HEART 4 KIDS, 41 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of FILL A HEART 4 KIDS?
NORTH SHORE EXCHANGE NFP is the largest funder on record, with $95,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FILL A HEART 4 KIDS 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 74 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