Illinois · Nonprofit
HELLO BABY NFP
HELLO BABY NFP (Illinois) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $155,123 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($86,350). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $448k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $155k
- Net assets
- $595k
What Hello Baby Nfp does
Mission
Hello Baby NFP was established to provide educational services and resources to parents and caregivers of infants in underserved Chicago neighborhoods.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Hello baby provides charitable educational services and resources to parents/caregivers and their infants and toddlers in a safe and nurturing environment - one that is often absent in many of chicago's most under-resourced communities. Hello baby supports, empowers, serves and inspires those parents/caregivers and their infant and toddlers in underserved chicago neighborhoods.
$279,666 spent100% of program spendingFree play center -- hello baby operates a free play center located at woodlawn community on the southside of chicago to help meet the needs of underserved families. The play center is where parents or caregivers can bring their infants and toddlers, without any charge or fee, for the children to play, socialize and learn skills. Hello baby began operations at the play center in july 2017, aftering having completed the leasehold improvements to the facility. Since its opening on 07/10/2017, hello baby has had approximately 1,619 first-time visits and 14,750 repeat visits, serving a variety of children and their parents or caregivers, primarily from various neighborhoods on the southside. Hello baby is an essential part of the community (along with its various commuinity partners) - with facilitated open play, meaningful daily programs, distriubtion of essential supplies, outdoor adventures, listening ears and open hearts. The result is happy children and happy parents/caregivers. Program outcomes include (1) strengthened language skills, (2) enhanced caregiver knowledge of early childhood development, (3) connecting families to larger systems of network care, (4) referral of a wide…
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $279,666.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $528k to $654k (+24%).
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: 2020 5% · 2021 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
105% of HELLO BABY NFP’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (83% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $250 → $30k.
4 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 97% 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 HELLO BABY NFP’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
HELLO BABY NFP leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
97% 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 HELLO BABY NFP.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 93% · 2022 100% · 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
60% of HELLO BABY NFP's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 44% 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
97% of HELLO BABY NFP'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 $5k that is directly attributable, 87% of it comes from funders outside Illinois, across 4 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $150k 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
HELLO BABY NFP is better cushioned than half of the 5,688 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,688 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like HELLO BABY NFP
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
50% 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 HELLO BABY NFP: 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 HELLO BABY NFP?
- HELLO BABY NFP (Illinois) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $155,123 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($86,350). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does HELLO BABY NFP have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $155,123 in grants to HELLO BABY NFP, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HELLO BABY NFP?
- The Chicago Community Trust is the largest funder on record, with $86,350 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HELLO BABY NFP 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 9 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