Illinois · Nonprofit
GIFT OF ADOPTION FUND INC
GIFT OF ADOPTION FUND INC (Illinois) receives grants from 129 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,810,592 to it, the largest being DIN FOUNDATION ($950,000). 70 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
GIFT OF ADOPTION FUND INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 5,983 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,983 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Robert R McCormick Foundationshared funders
- Ephesians 320 Foundation Incportfolio match
- Arie and Ida Crown Memorialshared funders
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.
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 3% · 2022 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
91% of GIFT OF ADOPTION FUND INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 16 funders to 53 funders, grant income rose $164k → $1.1M.
30 of 129 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 57% 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 GIFT OF ADOPTION FUND INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 129 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
GIFT OF ADOPTION FUND INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% 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
63% 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 GIFT OF ADOPTION FUND INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 47% · 2018 30% · 2019 25% · 2020 15% · 2021 22% · 2022 20% · 2023 23% — 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 GIFT OF ADOPTION FUND INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
57% of GIFT OF ADOPTION FUND INC'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 $2.5M that is directly attributable, 97% of it comes from funders outside Illinois, across 28 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 19 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 129 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Robert R McCormick Foundationshared fundersIL · backs 76 organizations that share your funders
- Ephesians 320 Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Arie and Ida Crown Memorialshared fundersIL · backs 122 organizations that share your funders
- Forever Home Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Barbara J Timmer Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- For Others Collective Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Promise686 Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Jewelers for Childrenportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mr and Mrs George W Taylor Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Donald Levin Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Peloton Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Jockey Being Family Foundation Ltdportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like GIFT OF ADOPTION FUND INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
75%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GIFT OF ADOPTION FUND 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds GIFT OF ADOPTION FUND INC?
- GIFT OF ADOPTION FUND INC (Illinois) receives grants from 129 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,810,592 to it, the largest being DIN FOUNDATION ($950,000). 70 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does GIFT OF ADOPTION FUND INC have?
- IRS filings report 129 organizations giving $5,810,592 in grants to GIFT OF ADOPTION FUND INC, 70 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GIFT OF ADOPTION FUND INC?
- DIN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $950,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GIFT OF ADOPTION FUND 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 129funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing