Illinois · Nonprofit
KOVITZ CARES FOUNDATION
KOVITZ CARES FOUNDATION (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $22,000 to it, the largest being JEWISH FEDERATION OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ($19,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 86% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $0
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $22k
- Net assets
- $0
What Kovitz Cares Foundation does
Mission
Kovitz Cares Foundation was organized to raise funds, primarily through fundraising activities, and to provide grants to other local 501(c)(3) organizations that support education and provide economic opportunities and assistance for people in need.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
During 2021 and 2023, the foundation participated in fundraising events facilitated by another 501 (c)(3) organization, nourishing hope (fka lakeview pantry). 2024 was a planning year. During 2024, the foundation received a donation, paid a grant, paid outstanding prizes from the 2023 event and paid it's annual fees. 2025 was the final year of the foundation. It submitted articles of dissolution with the il sos. During 2025, after paying insurance and annual fees, the remaining cash was distributed as grants to three local 501(c)(3) organizations.
$12,841 spentof which $12,528 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $12,841.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $990 to $17k (+1624%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $12k → $11k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 86% 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 KOVITZ CARES 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
KOVITZ CARES FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 86% 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
86% 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 KOVITZ CARES FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 87% · 2023 86% — broadly stable.
“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
86% of KOVITZ CARES FOUNDATION'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 $3k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Illinois, across 1 state.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $19k 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.
Organizations like KOVITZ CARES 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
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 KOVITZ CARES 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds KOVITZ CARES FOUNDATION?
- KOVITZ CARES FOUNDATION (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $22,000 to it, the largest being JEWISH FEDERATION OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ($19,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 86% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does KOVITZ CARES FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $22,000 in grants to KOVITZ CARES FOUNDATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KOVITZ CARES FOUNDATION?
- JEWISH FEDERATION OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO is the largest funder on record, with $19,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KOVITZ CARES 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 2 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