Illinois · Nonprofit
LAKEVIEW POLAR BEAR CLUB NFP Chicago Polar Bear Club NFP
LAKEVIEW POLAR BEAR CLUB NFP Chicago Polar Bear Club NFP (Illinois) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $43,371 to it, the largest being FT CARES FOUNDATION ($23,549). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2026
- $105k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $43k
- Net assets
- $77k
What LAKEVIEW POLAR BEAR CLUB NFP Chicago Polar Bear Club NFP does
Mission
The Lakeview Polar Bear Club's mission is to help hardworking families who are struggling financially due to unfortunate and unanticipated circumstances such as medical conditions, accidents, and homelessness. The Lakeview Polar Bear Club extends a helping hand to families who may have nowhere else to turn for support.
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990-EZ.
Program
The LPBC provided $126,580 in financial grants across 30 families to help with housing, medical costs and day to day expenses. The list of families was provided on Schedule O for Line 10.
$126,580 spentof which $126,580 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $126,580.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 $90k to $143k (+59%).
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.
100% of LAKEVIEW POLAR BEAR CLUB NFP Chicago Polar Bear Club NFP’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (87% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $20k → $10k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 43% 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 LAKEVIEW POLAR BEAR CLUB NFP Chicago Polar Bear Club 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
LAKEVIEW POLAR BEAR CLUB NFP Chicago Polar Bear Club NFP leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% 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
98% 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 LAKEVIEW POLAR BEAR CLUB NFP Chicago Polar Bear Club NFP.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 95% · 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
100% of LAKEVIEW POLAR BEAR CLUB NFP Chicago Polar Bear Club NFP's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
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.
Against its field
LAKEVIEW POLAR BEAR CLUB NFP Chicago Polar Bear Club NFP has grown faster than half of the 123 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 123 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2026
Organizations like LAKEVIEW POLAR BEAR CLUB NFP Chicago Polar Bear Club 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.
Public support
95%
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds LAKEVIEW POLAR BEAR CLUB NFP Chicago Polar Bear Club NFP?
- LAKEVIEW POLAR BEAR CLUB NFP Chicago Polar Bear Club NFP (Illinois) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $43,371 to it, the largest being FT CARES FOUNDATION ($23,549). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LAKEVIEW POLAR BEAR CLUB NFP Chicago Polar Bear Club NFP have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $43,371 in grants to LAKEVIEW POLAR BEAR CLUB NFP Chicago Polar Bear Club NFP, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LAKEVIEW POLAR BEAR CLUB NFP Chicago Polar Bear Club NFP?
- FT CARES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $23,549 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LAKEVIEW POLAR BEAR CLUB NFP Chicago Polar Bear Club 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 FY2026 (financials across 2023–2026), 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