Illinois · Nonprofit
FRANK LENTZ FOUNDATION LTD
FRANK LENTZ FOUNDATION LTD (Illinois) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $214,420 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($82,500). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $202k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $214k
- Net assets
- $130k
What Frank Lentz Foundation Ltd does
Mission
Rustic falls nature camp provides a safe, nurturing space for children and their families to take a break from the pressures of their everyday lives. By offering a retreat in a beautiful landscape and designing programming tailored to the special needs of each group, rustic falls is able to create a restorative environment for people who are in the middle of some of lifes most challenging times. Because life deserves to be celebrated.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Short trips were organized for small groups of kids from chicago's challenged neighborhoods. The trips allowed them to just be kids and have fun.
$163,585 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $163,585.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 2020 to 2021, from $403k to $233k (−42%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 10% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% · 2024 42% · 2025 23%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
88% of FRANK LENTZ FOUNDATION LTD’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (83% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 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
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $1k → $21k.
4 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 61% 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 FRANK LENTZ FOUNDATION LTD’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
FRANK LENTZ FOUNDATION LTD leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
61% 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 FRANK LENTZ FOUNDATION LTD.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 83% · 2020 83% · 2021 47% · 2022 87% · 2023 61% — 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
61% of FRANK LENTZ FOUNDATION LTD'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 $84k that is directly attributable, 89% of it comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $130k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
FRANK LENTZ FOUNDATION LTD runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,734 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,734 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like FRANK LENTZ FOUNDATION LTD
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
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FRANK LENTZ FOUNDATION LTD: 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 FRANK LENTZ FOUNDATION LTD?
- FRANK LENTZ FOUNDATION LTD (Illinois) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $214,420 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($82,500). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FRANK LENTZ FOUNDATION LTD have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $214,420 in grants to FRANK LENTZ FOUNDATION LTD, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRANK LENTZ FOUNDATION LTD?
- VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM is the largest funder on record, with $82,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRANK LENTZ FOUNDATION LTD 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 2017–2025), 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing