Illinois · Nonprofit
GREATER CHICAGO FERRET ASSOCIATION
GREATER CHICAGO FERRET ASSOCIATION (Illinois) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,387 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($3,811). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $126k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $12k
- Net assets
- $483k
What Greater Chicago Ferret Association does
Mission
The Greater Chicago Ferret Association (gcfa) is an educational, rescue and adoption organization.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The gcfa mission is to educate animal lovers about ferret pet ownership and to care for neglected,abused, and abandoned ferrets. We have a plethora of ferret resources and information for the care and needs of the domestic ferret. We shelted hundreds of these energetic, sociable animals every year.
$141,611 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $141,611.
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 2021 to 2022, from $436k to $0 (−100%).
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.
91% of GREATER CHICAGO FERRET ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (86% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 4 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
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $104 → $4k.
1 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 31% 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 GREATER CHICAGO FERRET ASSOCIATION’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
GREATER CHICAGO FERRET ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
31% 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 GREATER CHICAGO FERRET ASSOCIATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 62% · 2020 41% · 2021 44% · 2022 71% · 2023 63% — 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
GREATER CHICAGO FERRET ASSOCIATION draws 82% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4k 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.
Against its field
GREATER CHICAGO FERRET ASSOCIATION's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 3 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,954 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like GREATER CHICAGO FERRET ASSOCIATION
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
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
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 GREATER CHICAGO FERRET ASSOCIATION: 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 GREATER CHICAGO FERRET ASSOCIATION?
- GREATER CHICAGO FERRET ASSOCIATION (Illinois) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,387 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($3,811). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GREATER CHICAGO FERRET ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $12,387 in grants to GREATER CHICAGO FERRET ASSOCIATION, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GREATER CHICAGO FERRET ASSOCIATION?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,811 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GREATER CHICAGO FERRET ASSOCIATION 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 7 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