Illinois · Nonprofit
ORPHANS TREASURE BOX
ORPHANS TREASURE BOX (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $299 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($264). 1 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 FY2025
- $221k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $299
- Net assets
- $127k
What Orphans Treasure Box does
Mission
As followers of Christ and booksellers, we donate thousands of books to vulnerable children. We give some profits from our bookstore to serving women and children. We employ women coming out of prison, domestic violence, addiction and other trauma. We also have a re-entry to work training program.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Employing women coming out of prison, addiction, domestic violence, and other trauma. In 2025, we employed 4 women in the program called Restart. Total salaries paid to these women is $34,627.
$40,764 spent31% of program spendingDonating kids books to educational programming, free libraries throughout Illinois and beyond. Donating adult books to many other missions. Total number of books donated in 2025 surpassed 15,000 books. Grants are fair market value of donated books.
$8,200 spentof which $6,000 as grants6% of program spendingSelling books to provide food, housing, medicine and other resources for orphans and vulnerable children. Book sales are listed as program service revenue in that they support provisions for children in need. Sales are also combined with contributions to employ vulnerable women who are working in ReStart.
$84,510 spentof which $7,500 as grants$80,200 earned by the program63% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $133,474.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2023 to 2024, from $10k to $86k (+727%).
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 0% · 2021 7% · 2022 0% · 2023 0% · 2024 0% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
63% of ORPHANS TREASURE BOX’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 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.
Board chair
Ruth Wendling
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income rose $60 → $77.
1 of 2 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 ORPHANS TREASURE BOX’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
ORPHANS TREASURE BOX leans on a few funders — its largest provides 88% 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
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 ORPHANS TREASURE BOX.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 58% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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 ORPHANS TREASURE BOX'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 $35 that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Illinois funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $264 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.
Against its field
ORPHANS TREASURE BOX runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like ORPHANS TREASURE BOX
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
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 ORPHANS TREASURE BOX: 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 ORPHANS TREASURE BOX?
- ORPHANS TREASURE BOX (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $299 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($264). 1 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 ORPHANS TREASURE BOX have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $299 in grants to ORPHANS TREASURE BOX, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ORPHANS TREASURE BOX?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $264 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ORPHANS TREASURE BOX 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 2020–2025), 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