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FRIENDS OF THE EPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF GREATER CHICAGO
FRIENDS OF THE EPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF GREATER CHICAGO (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $160 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($160). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $0
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $160
- Net assets
- $0
What Friends of the Epilepsy Foundation of Greater Chicago does
Mission
Friends of the Epilepsy Foundation of Greater Chicago's purpose is to lead the fight to overcome the challenges of living with epilepsy and to accelerate therapies to stop seizures, find cures, and save lives. The Friends of the Epilepsy Foundation of Greater Chicago's principal line of business is to promote the collection and sale of used clothing in the united states.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
On its FY2024 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
Friends of epilepsy foundation of greater chicago as an entity was dissolved.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
Donation center - the friends of epilepsy foundation of greater chicago was formed to provide financial support to the epilepsy foundation of greater chicago through collection and sale of used clothing in the united states.
$83,931 spentof which $83,931 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $83,931.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $65k to $259k (+301%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Board chair
Javonny Drain
Board chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $30 → $41.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 THE EPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF GREATER CHICAGO’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.
Where its funders are
100% of FRIENDS OF THE EPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF GREATER CHICAGO'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $160 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Organizations like FRIENDS OF THE EPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF GREATER CHICAGO
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In Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% 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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE EPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF GREATER CHICAGO?
- FRIENDS OF THE EPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF GREATER CHICAGO (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $160 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($160). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FRIENDS OF THE EPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF GREATER CHICAGO have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $160 in grants to FRIENDS OF THE EPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF GREATER CHICAGO, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF THE EPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF GREATER CHICAGO?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $160 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS OF THE EPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF GREATER CHICAGO 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 1 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