Illinois · Nonprofit
FRIENDS OF FISHER HOUSE - ILLINOIS INC
FRIENDS OF FISHER HOUSE - ILLINOIS INC (Illinois) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $550,612 to it, the largest being THE GRAINGER FOUNDATION INC ($100,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $386k
- Funders on record
- 24
- Grants received
- $551k
- Net assets
- $725k
What Friends of Fisher House - Illinois Inc does
Mission
To raise funds to provide humanitarian support for military families in time of medical crises by providing meals and housing services while away from home and to support public awareness of the military and its programs
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
To raise funds to provide humanitarian support for military families in time of medical crises by providing meals and housing services while away from home and to support public awareness of the military and its programs
$229,815 spentof which $7,000 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $229,815.
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 2023 to 2024, from $414k to $591k (+43%).
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 FRIENDS OF FISHER HOUSE - ILLINOIS INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (84% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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 3 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $33k → $96k.
4 of 24 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 FRIENDS OF FISHER HOUSE - ILLINOIS INC’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
FRIENDS OF FISHER HOUSE - ILLINOIS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 76% · 2018 60% · 2019 50% · 2020 50% · 2021 39% · 2022 38% · 2023 52% — 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
44% of FRIENDS OF FISHER HOUSE - ILLINOIS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.
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
88% of FRIENDS OF FISHER HOUSE - ILLINOIS INC's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $53k 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
FRIENDS OF FISHER HOUSE - ILLINOIS INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,065 public benefit nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,065 public benefit nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like FRIENDS OF FISHER HOUSE - ILLINOIS INC
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
91% 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 FRIENDS OF FISHER HOUSE - ILLINOIS INC: 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 FRIENDS OF FISHER HOUSE - ILLINOIS INC?
- FRIENDS OF FISHER HOUSE - ILLINOIS INC (Illinois) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $550,612 to it, the largest being THE GRAINGER FOUNDATION INC ($100,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FRIENDS OF FISHER HOUSE - ILLINOIS INC have?
- IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $550,612 in grants to FRIENDS OF FISHER HOUSE - ILLINOIS INC, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF FISHER HOUSE - ILLINOIS INC?
- THE GRAINGER FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS OF FISHER HOUSE - ILLINOIS INC 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 24 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