Illinois · Nonprofit
GREAT LAKES PIGEON RESCUE
GREAT LAKES PIGEON RESCUE (Illinois) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $255,674 to it, the largest being PICCHI FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($150,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $229k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $256k
- Net assets
- $139k
What Great Lakes Pigeon Rescue does
Mission
Great Lakes Pigeon Rescue's mission is to save the lives of homeless domestic and non-releasable pigeons and doves in the Great Lakes region, who otherwise would face euthanasia or a slow death from lack of care, by providing foster homes, adoption services, medical treatment, and compassionate education about the need for pigeon and dove rescue.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
700 rescued birds received care, medical treatment, and housing in 2025. This met our goal for this time period. Long term goal includes continuing to provide lifesaving care for these otherwise neglected, abandoned birds, thus striving to spread compassion and inspire hope throughout our communities.
$55,000 spentof which $1,000 as grants34% of program spendingIn 2025 our organization provided emergency rescue and medical care for 761 domestically bred and non-releasable pigeons and doves who were abandoned, sick, injured, and/or starving. Because of the hard work of our committed volunteers and collaborations within our communities, we exceeded our goal for 2025 and our long term goal is to continue and expand this lifesaving work.
$102,099 spent63% of program spendingIn 2025, our organization trained and cultivated new rescue foster volunteers for 37 birds, which entails caring for the physical and emotional wellbeing of pigeons or doves who are waiting for their forever home. The new foster volunteers are trained by our volunteer coaches, and our organization provides cages and basic supplies along with continual support for the new fosters. This met our goal for the year, which we plan long term to expand annually as the more foster homes we have, the more pigeons and doves we are able to rescue and to care for.
$4,000 spent2% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $161,099.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2024 to 2025, from $71k to $139k (+95%).
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.
84% of GREAT LAKES PIGEON RESCUE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (86% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 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
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $7k → $24k.
5 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 41% 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 GREAT LAKES PIGEON RESCUE’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
GREAT LAKES PIGEON RESCUE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
41% 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 GREAT LAKES PIGEON RESCUE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 95% · 2022 93% · 2023 94% — broadly stable.
“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
GREAT LAKES PIGEON RESCUE draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 3 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $104k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
GREAT LAKES PIGEON RESCUE runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,693 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,693 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like GREAT LAKES PIGEON RESCUE
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
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
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GREAT LAKES PIGEON RESCUE: 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 GREAT LAKES PIGEON RESCUE?
- GREAT LAKES PIGEON RESCUE (Illinois) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $255,674 to it, the largest being PICCHI FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($150,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GREAT LAKES PIGEON RESCUE have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $255,674 in grants to GREAT LAKES PIGEON RESCUE, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GREAT LAKES PIGEON RESCUE?
- PICCHI FAMILY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $150,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GREAT LAKES PIGEON RESCUE 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 8 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