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PAY IT FORWARD HOUSE NFP

PAY IT FORWARD HOUSE NFP (Illinois) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $202,332 to it, the largest being DEKALB COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($132,815). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 79% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$35k
Funders on record
16
Grants received
$202k
Net assets
$0
12/16 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 23%
01What it does

What Pay It Forward House Nfp does

Mission

Respite and lodging for patient support groups(family/friends)of patients receving medical services (hospitals, specialized care)

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. During the period october 2024 through march 2025, pay it forward house provided guests 238 nights of rest and respite utilizing community partner hotels. With the announcement of the closure of kindred hospital in sycamore il in march 2025, the pay it forward board of directors voted to formally dissolve the pay it forward house organization.

    $0 spent
  2. Program donation requests were halted when kindred hospital shared news in late october 2024 of their possible closure. A closure decision was anticiapted in spring of 2025.

    $0 spent
  3. The home sale of the previous location for pay-it-forward house, in september 2021 led pay-it-forward house to placing guests in partner hotels. Utilizing hotel rooms for guests is our largest program cost of $4682.

    $0 spent

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($165k) Expenses 100 ($138k) Net assets 100 ($272k)2018 Revenue 83 ($138k) Expenses 98 ($135k) Net assets 101 ($275k)2019 Revenue 93 ($154k) Expenses 112 ($154k) Net assets 99 ($271k)2020 Revenue 79 ($131k) Expenses 95 ($132k) Net assets 98 ($266k)2021 Revenue 82 ($135k) Expenses 95 ($131k) Net assets 99 ($271k)2022 Revenue 60 ($99k) Expenses 67 ($93k) Net assets 101 ($276k)2023 Revenue 82 ($135k) Expenses 90 ($123k) Net assets 106 ($288k)2024 Revenue 72 ($118k) Expenses 82 ($114k) Net assets 108 ($293k)2025 Revenue 21 ($35k) Expenses 62 ($85k) Net assets 0 ($0)
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Revenue (21)Expenses (62)Net assets (0)

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 $294k to $0 (−100%).

$276k
$277k
$272k
$267k
$271k
$276k
$289k
$294k
$0
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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.

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2018
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2021
2022
2023
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2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$27k
’17
$3k
’18
$0
’19
−$710
’20
$5k
’21
$6k
’22
$12k
’23
$4k
’24
−$50k
’25

Leadership and staff

Chief executive

Tracy Kelsey

Executive director

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 6 funders, grant income fell $25k → $19k.

5 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 79% 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 PAY IT FORWARD HOUSE NFP’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

PAY IT FORWARD HOUSE NFP leans on a few funders — its largest provides 66% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

85% 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 PAY IT FORWARD HOUSE NFP.

66%
largest funder
81%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 55% · 2018 84% · 2019 99% · 2020 87% · 2021 49% · 2022 76% · 2023 74% — 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.

How long its funders stay

25% of PAY IT FORWARD HOUSE NFP's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 75% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

79% of PAY IT FORWARD HOUSE NFP'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 $43k that is directly attributable, 61% of it comes from Illinois funders.

IL
WI
IN
NJ
MO

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

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Illinois out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $160k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like PAY IT FORWARD HOUSE NFP

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.

Public support

96%

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 PAY IT FORWARD HOUSE NFP?
PAY IT FORWARD HOUSE NFP (Illinois) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $202,332 to it, the largest being DEKALB COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($132,815). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 79% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does PAY IT FORWARD HOUSE NFP have?
IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $202,332 in grants to PAY IT FORWARD HOUSE NFP, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of PAY IT FORWARD HOUSE NFP?
DEKALB COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $132,815 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like PAY IT FORWARD HOUSE NFP 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 16 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