Illinois · Nonprofit
John McNicholas Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation
John McNicholas Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation (Illinois) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $44,100 to it, the largest being The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc ($18,100). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
John McNicholas Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation is better cushioned than half of the 4,403 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,403 philanthropy nonprofits under $100k, 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.
- Oak Park-River Forest Community Foundationshared funderslocal
- Ambers Antibodies Incportfolio match
- Sky High for Kids Incportfolio match
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.
99% of John McNicholas Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (95% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $19k → $5k.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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 John McNicholas Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation’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
John McNicholas Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 95% · 2019 100% · 2021 69% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
John McNicholas Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation draws 94% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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.
- Oak Park-River Forest Community Foundationshared funderslocalIL · backs 45 organizations that share your funders · funds 146 organizations near you
- Ambers Antibodies Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sky High for Kids Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Haymakers for Hope Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Groh George W Tr FBO Med Researchportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Golf Fights Cancer Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Sirota Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Global Genesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Michelle O'Neill Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- My Child's Hand Foundation Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Tap Cancer Out Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Wrobel Family Foundationportfolio 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 John McNicholas Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation
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
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
89%
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 John McNicholas Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation: 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 John McNicholas Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation?
- John McNicholas Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation (Illinois) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $44,100 to it, the largest being The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc ($18,100). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does John McNicholas Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $44,100 in grants to John McNicholas Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of John McNicholas Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation?
- The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $18,100 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like John McNicholas Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation 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 5funders 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