Illinois · Nonprofit
LAUNDRYCARES FOUNDATION
LAUNDRYCARES FOUNDATION (Illinois) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,515,683 to it, the largest being The David and Lucile Packard Foundation ($1,255,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $537k
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $1.5M
- Net assets
- $-158175
What Laundrycares Foundation does
Mission
To provide laundry services and education to those in need.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Free laundry day - provided free laundry services to needy families at local laundromats across the country. Hundreds of loads of laundry are completed during each day. The events also included access to children's books and literacy resources. Additonally, the organization providing consulting services to other wishing to set up free laundry days to assist needy families within their constituency.
$404,898 spent75% of program spendingThe Laundrycares Foundation, and the clinton foundation's too small to fail program, worked with lakeshore learning and scholastic to offer family read, play & learn kits. These are uniquely designed to create safe, fun, and engaging places for children and families in laundromats. "family read, play & learn" spaces are equipped with literacy-rich materials to support children's early brain and language development, and are a meaningful way to serve communities and customers. The foundation sells these kits to laundromats. Expenses are netted against revenue in part viii.
$135,249 spent25% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $540,147.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $163k to $475k (+191%).
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.
90% of LAUNDRYCARES FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Brian Wallace
Chief executive officer
Board chair
Brian Holland
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 7 funders, grant income rose $125k → $363k.
4 of 15 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.
Left out of every figure on this page: $22k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Coin Laundry Association). These are real filings, and they are not money LAUNDRYCARES FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of LAUNDRYCARES 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
LAUNDRYCARES FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 83% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 99% · 2020 78% · 2021 98% · 2022 93% · 2023 91% — 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.
How long its funders stay
17% of LAUNDRYCARES FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 33% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
LAUNDRYCARES FOUNDATION draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 8 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $63k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
LAUNDRYCARES FOUNDATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like LAUNDRYCARES 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.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
57%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Coin Laundry Association · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LAUNDRYCARES 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 LAUNDRYCARES FOUNDATION?
- LAUNDRYCARES FOUNDATION (Illinois) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,515,683 to it, the largest being The David and Lucile Packard Foundation ($1,255,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LAUNDRYCARES FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $1,515,683 in grants to LAUNDRYCARES FOUNDATION, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LAUNDRYCARES FOUNDATION?
- The David and Lucile Packard Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $1,255,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LAUNDRYCARES 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 15 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