Illinois · Nonprofit
MOUNTAINS TO MOLEHILLS
MOUNTAINS TO MOLEHILLS (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $35,000 to it, the largest being THE ONE ABOVE NFP ($20,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $103k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $35k
- Net assets
- $29k
What Mountains to Molehills does
Mission
Mountains to Molehills provides monetary relief for the purpose of improving the lives of the impoverished through appliance repair and replacements, home repairs, auto repairs, or other activities that might provide relief and service to poor or needy individuals. The specific objectives and purpose of this organization is to: a) identify and screen individuals with need requests to ensure validity of requests, whether directly or through partner organizations, b) organize individual contractors, at subsidized or full cost, to complete repairs as required, c) provide oversight and quality control of processes and repair activities to ensure effectiveness of the organization, d) distribute excess funds to non-profit organizations with similar purposes to Mountains to Molehills in order to maximize efficiency in fund collection and distribution.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Program expenses - outsourced labor and repairs: purchase and installation of new or used appliances or repairs to existing appliances
$31,960 spent88% of program spendingProgram expenses - vehicle repairs: vehicle repairs for low income individuals
$2,545 spent7% of program spendingProgram expenses related to donated items: other expenses directly related to the organization's primary exempt purpose as described on schedule o
$2,003 spent5% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $36,508.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 $534 to $29k (+5333%).
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 MOUNTAINS TO MOLEHILLS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of MOUNTAINS TO MOLEHILLS’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
MOUNTAINS TO MOLEHILLS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
43% 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 MOUNTAINS TO MOLEHILLS.
“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
57% of MOUNTAINS TO MOLEHILLS's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
MOUNTAINS TO MOLEHILLS runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 7,175 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,175 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like MOUNTAINS TO MOLEHILLS
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.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MOUNTAINS TO MOLEHILLS: 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 MOUNTAINS TO MOLEHILLS?
- MOUNTAINS TO MOLEHILLS (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $35,000 to it, the largest being THE ONE ABOVE NFP ($20,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MOUNTAINS TO MOLEHILLS have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $35,000 in grants to MOUNTAINS TO MOLEHILLS.
- Who is the largest funder of MOUNTAINS TO MOLEHILLS?
- THE ONE ABOVE NFP is the largest funder on record, with $20,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MOUNTAINS TO MOLEHILLS 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 2023–2025), and the filings of 2 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