Illinois · Nonprofit
LEMONS OF LOVE INC
LEMONS OF LOVE INC (Illinois) receives grants from 48 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,064,609 to it, the largest being The Coleman Foundation Inc ($177,500). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2023
- $931k
- Funders on record
- 48
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $713k
What Lemons of Love Inc does
Mission
Its our mission to share love with those impacted by cancer through personalized care packages, free programs and ongoing support.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.
Program
Lemons of love chemo care packages - the organization understands the little, day-to day challenges that chemotherapy patients are faced with, and hopes to provide some insight about the effects of chemotherapy and attempts to make those short-term side effects, like dry skin and cold toes, a little more manageable through the gift of a care package. Lemons of love cancer resource center - beginning in 2018, the organization opened the lemons of love cancer resource center which provides a designated beauty and spa area where local hairdresses, massage therapists, or make artists can volunteer their time to pamper a patient for the day and to allow a private space for chemo head shavings, space for cancer cancer support groups for those going through chemo, as well as groups for caregivers and loved ones, a project room where local groups and volunteer organizations can help fill bags, take on a project donation, or create happy pictures for care packages, and yoga, meditation, creative arts and other activities.
$687,278 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $687,278.
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 2019 to 2020, from $759k to $1.2M (+56%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 4% · 2021 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of LEMONS OF LOVE INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (83% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 7 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
Jill Swanson
Executive director
As listed on its FY2023 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $125k → $125k.
10 of 48 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% 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 LEMONS OF LOVE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 48 funders by total. 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
LEMONS OF LOVE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
38% 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 LEMONS OF LOVE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 56% · 2018 30% · 2019 42% · 2020 50% · 2021 24% · 2022 29% · 2023 20% — 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
27% of LEMONS OF LOVE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% 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
68% of LEMONS OF LOVE INC's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $361k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
LEMONS OF LOVE INC has grown faster than half of the 13,355 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,355 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2023
Organizations like LEMONS OF LOVE INC
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
69% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
89%
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 LEMONS OF LOVE INC: 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 LEMONS OF LOVE INC?
- LEMONS OF LOVE INC (Illinois) receives grants from 48 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,064,609 to it, the largest being The Coleman Foundation Inc ($177,500). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LEMONS OF LOVE INC have?
- IRS filings report 48 organizations giving $1,064,609 in grants to LEMONS OF LOVE INC, 25 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LEMONS OF LOVE INC?
- The Coleman Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $177,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LEMONS OF LOVE INC 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 FY2023 (financials across 2017–2023), and the filings of 48 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing