Illinois · Nonprofit
JOSHUAS GREAT THINGS FOUNDATION
JOSHUAS GREAT THINGS FOUNDATION (Illinois) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $24,936 to it, the largest being THE ST LOUIS MEN'S GROUP AGAINST CANCER ($14,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $74k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $25k
- Net assets
- $48k
What Joshuas Great Things Foundation does
Mission
Fund pediatric brain cancer research and support families.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
St louis children's hospital foundation - pediatric neuro-oncology research departmentfund ongoing pediatric brain cancer research at the hospital's pediatric oncology research laboratory.
$55,000 spentof which $55,000 as grants81% of program spendingJoshua's great things foundation family support program provide gift cards to families who have a child in treatment for brain cancer.
$13,250 spentof which $13,250 as grants19% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $68,250.
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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $41k to $47k (+15%).
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 JOSHUAS GREAT THINGS FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $3k → $5k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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 JOSHUAS GREAT THINGS 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
JOSHUAS GREAT THINGS FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 JOSHUAS GREAT THINGS FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 95% · 2021 92% · 2022 100% · 2023 96% — 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
JOSHUAS GREAT THINGS FOUNDATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $936 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
JOSHUAS GREAT THINGS FOUNDATION has grown faster than half of the 6,360 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,360 health nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like JOSHUAS GREAT THINGS FOUNDATION
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
56%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds JOSHUAS GREAT THINGS FOUNDATION?
- JOSHUAS GREAT THINGS FOUNDATION (Illinois) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $24,936 to it, the largest being THE ST LOUIS MEN'S GROUP AGAINST CANCER ($14,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does JOSHUAS GREAT THINGS FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $24,936 in grants to JOSHUAS GREAT THINGS FOUNDATION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of JOSHUAS GREAT THINGS FOUNDATION?
- THE ST LOUIS MEN'S GROUP AGAINST CANCER is the largest funder on record, with $14,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like JOSHUAS GREAT THINGS 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.
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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 3 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