Illinois · Nonprofit
MOOSE CHARITIES INC
MOOSE CHARITIES INC (Illinois) receives grants from 92 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,367,062 to it, the largest being NEWARK LODGE NO 499 LOYAL ORDER OF MOOSE ($900,650). 57 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $23M
- Funders on record
- 92
- Grants received
- $4.4M
- Net assets
- $2.2M
What Moose Charities Inc does
Mission
Moose charities will support, assist and operate charitable activities and endeavors of moose, and any related foundation, trust fund, or charitable subsidiary.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Provide additional funding for moose foundation, inc. Moose foundation operates exclusively for the benefit of mooseheart child city and school, inc., moosehaven, inc., and moose charities, inc., and to support and carry out the purposes of moosehaven, mooseheart, and moose charities.
$9,285,259 spentof which $9,285,259 as grants40% of program spendingProvide additional funding for mooseheart child city and school, inc. Mooseheart provides full care for children in need, including education, vocational training, home life, religious instruction, and social activities. Mooseheart also provides a wealth of support and enrichment programs to help young people attain their highest level of self-fulfillment
$7,266,184 spentof which $7,266,184 as grants31% of program spendingProvide additional funding for moosehaven, inc. Moosehaven is a retirement community that is available to qualified moose members and their spouses who have a need to go there for their retirement years. Moosehaven assumes all responsibility for total care of residents, including providing food, clothing, housing, and medical and dental care. Moosehaven also benefits the community by aiding in extending the lives of residents and enabling them to live safe, useful, and independent lives, and to relieve stress.
$6,813,293 spentof which $6,813,293 as grants29% of program spendingProvide funding for safe surfin foundation and the youth awareness program.
$79,650 spentof which $10,000 as grants0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $23,444,386.
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 2024 to 2025, from $7.8M to $5.0M (−36%).
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 MOOSE CHARITIES INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (80% 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
Pamela Amundsen
Executive director
Board chair
Robert K Funkey
Chairman mi board
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 21 funders to 40 funders, grant income rose $263k → $365k.
9 of 92 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $6.6M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Moose International Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money MOOSE CHARITIES INC raised.
From the IRS filings of MOOSE CHARITIES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 92 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
MOOSE CHARITIES INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% 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
92% 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 MOOSE CHARITIES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 26% · 2018 23% · 2019 47% · 2020 23% · 2021 14% · 2022 70% · 2023 16% — 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
49% of MOOSE CHARITIES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
MOOSE CHARITIES INC draws 94% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 23 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $432k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
MOOSE CHARITIES INC has grown faster than half of the 490 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 490 philanthropy nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding MOOSE CHARITIES INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $39k on record.
- REFUNDS - GENERAL $39k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like MOOSE CHARITIES 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
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 35 states
Part of a family of 4 related entities
- Moose Foundation Inc · exempt
- Mooseheart Child City & School Inc · exempt
- Moosehaven Inc · exempt
- Moose International Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MOOSE CHARITIES 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 MOOSE CHARITIES INC?
- MOOSE CHARITIES INC (Illinois) receives grants from 92 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,367,062 to it, the largest being NEWARK LODGE NO 499 LOYAL ORDER OF MOOSE ($900,650). 57 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MOOSE CHARITIES INC have?
- IRS filings report 92 organizations giving $4,367,062 in grants to MOOSE CHARITIES INC, 57 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MOOSE CHARITIES INC?
- NEWARK LODGE NO 499 LOYAL ORDER OF MOOSE is the largest funder on record, with $900,650 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MOOSE CHARITIES 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.
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 92 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