Illinois · Nonprofit
Shorewood HUGS
Shorewood HUGS (Illinois) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,751 to it, the largest being RAYMOND JAMES CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT FUND ($5,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $83k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $13k
- Net assets
- $69k
What Shorewood HUGS does
Mission
Provide aid to children,families, individuals and programs in our community and the surrounding communities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
HUGS-Helping You Get Started is an organization designedto help anyone in the community within a 20 mile radius who is in need. When a family tragedy, illness, hard times, accident
$85,329 spent100% of program spendingor disability strikes, HUGS steps in to help through our Hugs and Wishes program. For the fiscal year 2024-2025 we granted approximately 60 wishes. Our wishes are sponsored through our many fundraisers throughout the year, the largest being our annual Chocolate Ball, which was held February 2025. We were also supported the community and local humane society with our Hugs for Hounds Doggie Easter Egg Hunt to support the Will County Humane Society, making a generous $2,000 donation. We participated in and supported a number of Joliet Chamber and Plainfield/Shorewood Chamber events, participated in and raised over $2,000 for the American Cancer Society Relay for Life, supported the Troy Public Library Summer Reading Program, supported the Council of Working Women, Team Make a Difference, Kindness Gala Foundation, to name a few. Members volunteered for Northern Illinois Food Bank food distribution. We also provided Christmas meals and gifts to the families at Lambs Fold, as well as providing gifts and lunch favors to the Troy Seniors at their annual Christmas party and supported the Shorewood shop with a Cop program. We supported Morningstar Mission with our annual food drive and…
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $85,329.
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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $54k to $85k (+59%).
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 Shorewood HUGS’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Natalie Merci
Wishes Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $3k → $612.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 42% 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 Shorewood HUGS’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
Shorewood HUGS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
42% 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 Shorewood HUGS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 85% · 2021 100% · 2022 79% · 2023 82% — 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.
Where its funders are
Shorewood HUGS draws 66% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
Shorewood HUGS has grown faster than half of the 9,787 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,787 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like Shorewood HUGS
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.
Public support
82%
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 Shorewood HUGS: 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 Shorewood HUGS?
- Shorewood HUGS (Illinois) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,751 to it, the largest being RAYMOND JAMES CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT FUND ($5,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Shorewood HUGS have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $12,751 in grants to Shorewood HUGS, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Shorewood HUGS?
- RAYMOND JAMES CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $5,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Shorewood HUGS 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 6 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