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SELF-HELP CLOSET & PANTRY OF DES PLAINES

SELF-HELP CLOSET & PANTRY OF DES PLAINES (Illinois) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $71,531 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($36,380). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 72% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$359k
Funders on record
11
Grants received
$72k
Net assets
$344k
8/11 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 8%
01What it does

What Self-Help Closet & Pantry of Des Plaines does

Mission

Distribution of food and clothing to the needy

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Food programs, general other: collects, stores and distributes clothing, food, diapers, baby food, milk, ensure, and incontinence products to individuals and families in need whose incomes are less than 200% of the federal poverty guidelines based upon yearly income before taxes (approximately 11,500 clients served).

    $179,101 spent
    67% of program spending
  2. Community backpack project primary focus is the collection and distribution of backpacks and other school related supplies to the children of families in need.

    $88,041 spent$89,430 earned by the program
    33% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $267,142.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($237k) Expenses 100 ($127k) Net assets 100 ($368k)2021 Revenue 83 ($196k) Expenses 118 ($150k) Net assets 113 ($415k)2022 Revenue 89 ($211k) Expenses 184 ($234k) Net assets 106 ($392k)2023 Revenue 124 ($295k) Expenses 244 ($311k) Net assets 102 ($376k)2024 Revenue 49 ($115k) Expenses 106 ($135k) Net assets 97 ($357k)2025 Revenue 151 ($359k) Expenses 292 ($371k) Net assets 93 ($344k)
202020212022202320242025
Revenue (151)Expenses (292)Net assets (93)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 2020 to 2021, from $371k to $415k (+12%).

$371k
$415k
$394k
$376k
$358k
$344k
202020212022202320242025
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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 5% · 2021 8% · 2022 6% · 2023 14% · 2024 14% · 2025 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

68% of SELF-HELP CLOSET & PANTRY OF DES PLAINES’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 23,870 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$110k
’20
$47k
’21
−$23k
’22
−$16k
’23
−$19k
’24
−$12k
’25
6.3
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.

202020212022202320242025
Listed998776
Joined·+2+2+2+0+1
No longer listed·23302
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose $60 → $22k.

3 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 72% 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 SELF-HELP CLOSET & PANTRY OF DES PLAINES’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

SELF-HELP CLOSET & PANTRY OF DES PLAINES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

86% 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 SELF-HELP CLOSET & PANTRY OF DES PLAINES.

51%
largest funder
86%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 91% · 2021 67% · 2022 53% · 2023 49% — 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

17% of SELF-HELP CLOSET & PANTRY OF DES PLAINES's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 73% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y

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

72% of SELF-HELP CLOSET & PANTRY OF DES PLAINES'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 $20k that is directly attributable, 70% of it comes from Illinois funders.

IL
TN
NC

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

’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Illinois out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $52k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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

Against its field

SELF-HELP CLOSET & PANTRY OF DES PLAINES is better cushioned than half of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−3% · below the median
Months of reserve6.3mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)9% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like SELF-HELP CLOSET & PANTRY OF DES PLAINES

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

72% of spending goes to programs.

Program 72%Management 21%Fundraising 6%

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 SELF-HELP CLOSET & PANTRY OF DES PLAINES?
SELF-HELP CLOSET & PANTRY OF DES PLAINES (Illinois) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $71,531 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($36,380). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 72% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does SELF-HELP CLOSET & PANTRY OF DES PLAINES have?
IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $71,531 in grants to SELF-HELP CLOSET & PANTRY OF DES PLAINES, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SELF-HELP CLOSET & PANTRY OF DES PLAINES?
AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $36,380 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SELF-HELP CLOSET & PANTRY OF DES PLAINES 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 11 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