Illinois · Nonprofit
LEMONAID FUND
LEMONAID FUND (Illinois) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $322,097 to it, the largest being STREAMWAY FOUNDATION TRUST ($186,550). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $68k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $322k
- Net assets
- $30k
What Lemonaid Fund does
Mission
Support to psychosocial education & education & development to 25 organizations worldwide especially those who experience extreme hardship and trauma
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Support to psychosocial education & development to 18 organizations in 4 countries for 100.000 children, women & families. 200,000 indirect beneficiaries in Sierra Leone, Rwanda and Bhutan and Nepal.
$0 spentof which $79,843 as grantsSchool Education Support (10 schools) scholarships and technical asst to schools and individuals (50) in Sierra Leone. Scholarship for schools in Sierra Leone including Dele Preparatory school (2 locations), Beckley, Lillian, Goshen, Behind the American Embassy and Anne Caulker School. 2 College scholarships.
$0 spentof which $7,462 as grantsSupport to building infrastructure schools reroof, build classrooms, toilet, or school improvements per the Ministry of Sierra Leone. More than 2000 children benefit from the increased quality of the school buildings. also worked with Engineers without Boarders to put in solar and water in 2 schools. School fences and gates for security. Social Work Sierra Leone infrastructure costs.
$0 spentof which $1,200 as grants
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.
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 and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $27k to $53k (+97%).
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 LEMONAID FUND’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (77% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 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
Nancy Peddle
CEO President
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income rose $16k → $98k.
4 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 42% 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 LEMONAID FUND’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
LEMONAID FUND leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
42% 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 LEMONAID FUND.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2018 70% · 2019 96% · 2020 88% · 2021 85% · 2022 64% · 2023 76% — 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
LEMONAID FUND draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $135k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
LEMONAID FUND has grown faster than three-quarters of the 6,328 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,328 community improvement nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like LEMONAID FUND
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
96%
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 LEMONAID FUND: 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 LEMONAID FUND?
- LEMONAID FUND (Illinois) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $322,097 to it, the largest being STREAMWAY FOUNDATION TRUST ($186,550). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LEMONAID FUND have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $322,097 in grants to LEMONAID FUND, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LEMONAID FUND?
- STREAMWAY FOUNDATION TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $186,550 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LEMONAID FUND 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 7 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