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MAKING KANE COUNTY FIT FOR KIDS

MAKING KANE COUNTY FIT FOR KIDS (Illinois) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $261,939 to it, the largest being Northwestern Memorial HealthCare ($105,500). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$50k
Funders on record
10
Grants received
$262k
Net assets
$59k
7/10 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 51%
01What it does

What Making Kane County Fit for Kids does

Mission

To collaborate and provide resources to the local community of kane county, il to address and reduce childhood obesity through healthy initiatives.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Healthy eating/active living program

    $38,242 spentof which $38,242 as grants
    80% of program spending
  2. Walk to school day

    $9,337 spentof which $8,250 as grants
    20% of program spending
  3. Community outreach

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $47,579.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($142k) Expenses 100 ($117k) Net assets 100 ($25k)2019 Revenue 71 ($100k) Expenses 91 ($107k) Net assets 72 ($18k)2020 Revenue 78 ($111k) Expenses 43 ($51k) Net assets 316 ($78k)2021 Revenue 66 ($94k) Expenses 120 ($140k) Net assets 126 ($31k)2022 Revenue 72 ($102k) Expenses 49 ($57k) Net assets 310 ($76k)2023 Revenue 48 ($68k) Expenses 91 ($107k) Net assets 153 ($38k)2024 Revenue 44 ($62k) Expenses 25 ($29k) Net assets 285 ($70k)2025 Revenue 35 ($50k) Expenses 52 ($60k) Net assets 241 ($59k)
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Revenue (35)Expenses (52)Net assets (241)Peer revenue range

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 $18k to $78k (+340%).

$25k
$18k
$78k
$31k
$76k
$38k
$70k
$59k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2018 36% · 2019 27% · 2020 24% · 2021 28% · 2022 26% · 2023 37% · 2024 34% · 2025 22%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

100% of MAKING KANE COUNTY FIT FOR KIDS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,734 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$25k
’18
−$7k
’19
$60k
’20
−$47k
’21
$45k
’22
−$39k
’23
$33k
’24
−$11k
’25
12
months of
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.

Board chair

Michael Isaacson

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed66644664
Joined·+1+1+1+0+3+0+0
No longer listed·1130102
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income fell $79k → $26k.

1 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 26% 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 MAKING KANE COUNTY FIT FOR KIDS’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

MAKING KANE COUNTY FIT FOR KIDS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

74% 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 MAKING KANE COUNTY FIT FOR KIDS.

40%
largest funder
76%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 87% · 2018 100% · 2019 67% · 2020 53% · 2021 71% · 2022 57% · 2023 61% — 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

50% of MAKING KANE COUNTY FIT FOR KIDS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

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

100% of MAKING KANE COUNTY FIT FOR KIDS's grant income comes from Illinois funders.

IL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’23
Illinois out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $69k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

MAKING KANE COUNTY FIT FOR KIDS is better cushioned than half of the 1,510 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−22% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve11.8mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−14% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,510 food & nutrition nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

Organizations like MAKING KANE COUNTY FIT FOR KIDS

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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

79% of spending goes to programs.

Program 79%Management 4%Fundraising 17%

Governance

6
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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

IL

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Questions and answers

Who funds MAKING KANE COUNTY FIT FOR KIDS?
MAKING KANE COUNTY FIT FOR KIDS (Illinois) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $261,939 to it, the largest being Northwestern Memorial HealthCare ($105,500). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does MAKING KANE COUNTY FIT FOR KIDS have?
IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $261,939 in grants to MAKING KANE COUNTY FIT FOR KIDS, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of MAKING KANE COUNTY FIT FOR KIDS?
Northwestern Memorial HealthCare is the largest funder on record, with $105,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MAKING KANE COUNTY FIT FOR KIDS 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 10 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