Illinois · Nonprofit
LEAN FOUNDATION USA
LEAN FOUNDATION USA (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,144 to it, the largest being THE DUPAGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $89k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $10k
- Net assets
- $15k
What Lean Foundation USA does
Mission
Our org's purpose is to Lift Educate Assist & Nurture(LEAN) the underprivileged and disadvantaged for a better and sustainable future. LEAN partners with other organizations including schools, to provide primary healthcare, education, and financial assistance for livelihood support to those in need.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
1.Partnered with Helping Hand Foundation, Hyderabad India to a) support primary healthcare and required medications all free of cost to the extremely poor residents of over 25 slums located in the Pahadi Shareef area on the outskirts of the main city, b) Education sponsorships to extremely poor and deserving orphans and children of financially weak/ disabled parents.
$73,000 spentof which $73,000 as grants85% of program spending2. Partnered with PROGREES - ODISHA to provide education sponsorship for After school coaching to extremely poor and deserving middle and high school students and Vocational training programs to poor and financially weak high school dropouts in Odisha, India.
$10,000 spentof which $10,000 as grants12% of program spendingSponsored food drives and Meals on Wheels programs for seniors and underprivileged in the underserved areas of Chicago.
$2,310 spentof which $2,310 as grants3% of program spendingProvided financial support to struggling families in Chicago
$500 spentof which $500 as grants1% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $85,810.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 $42k to $11k (−75%).
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 LEAN FOUNDATION USA’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% 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
2022 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $10k → $75.
2 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 LEAN FOUNDATION USA’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
LEAN FOUNDATION USA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 99% 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 LEAN FOUNDATION USA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 99% · 2023 100% — 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
100% of LEAN FOUNDATION USA'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
LEAN FOUNDATION USA has grown faster than three-quarters of the 9,787 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,787 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like LEAN FOUNDATION USA
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
48%
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 LEAN FOUNDATION USA: 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 LEAN FOUNDATION USA?
- LEAN FOUNDATION USA (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,144 to it, the largest being THE DUPAGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does LEAN FOUNDATION USA have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $10,144 in grants to LEAN FOUNDATION USA, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LEAN FOUNDATION USA?
- THE DUPAGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LEAN FOUNDATION USA 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 2022–2025), 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