Illinois · Nonprofit
LITTLE BY LITTLE INC
LITTLE BY LITTLE INC (Illinois) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $40,880 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($26,030). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 88% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2022
- $73k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $41k
- Net assets
- $134k
What Little by Little Inc does
Mission
Although our focus is maternal/child wellness and family primary care. We treat everyone who finds their way to our clinic in haiti. We also provide care for school children and orphans from the surrounding area. Our first focus is to relieve suffering by using our resources against infections, infestations, maulnutrition, and to treat the simple diseases we encounter. While in the clinic, we take the opportunity to teach general hygiene practices and provide families with toothbrushes, soap and antibacteraial ointment. Also, by providing vitamins to all pregnant and lactating women, to all children, and to those with sever anemia, we are helping to promote a healthier start in life, while sustaining others in need.
As stated on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ.
Program
By capacity building with other medical teams visiting the MTM clinic, we are now able to provide consistent care for chronic conditions such as hypertension, diabetes, thyroid disease, seizure disorders and severe wounds. Such expanded care is possible because of the collaborating efforts between teams to advance and sustain the pharmacy formulary, inventory and labeling system, along with securing a consistent source for needed supplies. In keeping with Little by Little's mission and vision, partnering with the community is essential. MTM coordinates villagers to help in the clinic as interpreters, clerics and assistants. When professional resources and supplies also become available to the area, our efforts will shift to support and sustain local efforts. Until then, Little by Little will continue to provide medical teams and support as needed. NEW SUPPORT EFFORTS IN UGANDA We share a vision of serving the marginalized with Fr. Patrick Kizza, who serves at Our Lady of Perpetual Help parish in Glenview, Illinois. His dreams match the aims of Little by Little: to relieve suffering and provide access to care for malnutrition, hypertension, diabetes, AIDS and malaria where 27% of…
$16,656 spentof which $36,000 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $16,656.
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.
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 LITTLE BY LITTLE INC’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. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $100 → $7k.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 88% 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 LITTLE BY LITTLE INC’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
LITTLE BY LITTLE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 64% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
88% 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 LITTLE BY LITTLE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 93% · 2019 89% · 2020 91% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 75% — 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.
Where its funders are
88% of LITTLE BY LITTLE INC'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. Of the $5k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $36k 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
LITTLE BY LITTLE INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,102 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,102 international nonprofits under $100k, FY2022
Organizations like LITTLE BY LITTLE INC
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In Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LITTLE BY LITTLE 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 LITTLE BY LITTLE INC?
- LITTLE BY LITTLE INC (Illinois) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $40,880 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($26,030). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 88% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does LITTLE BY LITTLE INC have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $40,880 in grants to LITTLE BY LITTLE INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LITTLE BY LITTLE INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $26,030 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LITTLE BY LITTLE 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 FY2022 (financials across 2017–2022), and the filings of 5 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