Illinois · Nonprofit
HYDE PARK CATS
HYDE PARK CATS (Illinois) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $26,469 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($10,499). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 83% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $98k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $26k
- Net assets
- $16k
What Hyde Park Cats does
Mission
Hyde Park Cats's purpose is to rescue homeless cats and kittens in and around chicago's hyde park neighborhood, to support and encourage the fostering and adoption of rescued cats and kittens in and around chicago's hyde park neighborhood and to prevent homeless cats and kittens from reproducing by implementing trap-neuter strategies with community members in and around chicago's hyde park neighborhood. Approximately 200 cats are adopted each year.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Provide cats and kittens in and around chicago's hyde park neighborhood care through veterinary support and foster care until they find their forever homes through adoption.
$97,389 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $97,389.
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 2023 to 2024, from $30k to $16k (−48%).
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.
76% of HYDE PARK CATS’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (87% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $650 → $2k.
3 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 83% 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 HYDE PARK CATS’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
HYDE PARK CATS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
83% 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 HYDE PARK CATS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 96% · 2021 74% · 2022 77% · 2023 51% — 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
83% of HYDE PARK CATS'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 $4k that is directly attributable, 85% of it comes from funders outside Illinois, across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $22k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
HYDE PARK CATS has grown faster than three-quarters of the 663 unclassified nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 663 unclassified nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like HYDE PARK CATS
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.
Public support
97%
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 HYDE PARK CATS: 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. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds HYDE PARK CATS?
- HYDE PARK CATS (Illinois) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $26,469 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($10,499). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 83% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does HYDE PARK CATS have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $26,469 in grants to HYDE PARK CATS, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HYDE PARK CATS?
- PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND is the largest funder on record, with $10,499 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HYDE PARK CATS 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.
Play a game about who funds Hyde Park Cats →
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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing