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SPECIAL KIDS DAY INC

SPECIAL KIDS DAY INC (Illinois) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $52,750 to it, the largest being THE DUPAGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($38,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 73% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$37k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$53k
Net assets
$-3322
2/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%
01What it does

What Special Kids Day Inc does

Program

  1. Provided gifts and services to special needs children and their siblings. A total of 5550 children benefited from the program. 2000 received free shoes thru sole for kids and 2550 received services from special events.

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($49k) Expenses 100 ($41k) Net assets 100 ($23k)2024 Revenue 75 ($37k) Expenses 92 ($38k) Net assets -14 ($-3322)
20172024
Revenue (75)Expenses (92)Net assets (-14)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars.

$24k
$13k
20172024
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.

2017
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of SPECIAL KIDS DAY INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,557 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.

$8k
’17
−$985
’24
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $250 → $8k.

Funder
'17
'18
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
'25*
total
funders
1
3
2
2
1
1
2
2
2

1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 73% 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 SPECIAL KIDS DAY INC’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

SPECIAL KIDS DAY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 73% 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

73% 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 SPECIAL KIDS DAY INC.

73%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 78% · 2019 89% · 2020 86% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 75% — 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

73% of SPECIAL KIDS DAY INC'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 $14k that is directly attributable, 89% of it comes from Illinois funders.

IL
WI

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

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

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $39k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

SPECIAL KIDS DAY INC's revenue fell 25% between 2017 and 2024.

Operating margin−3% · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−4% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,880 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2024

Organizations like SPECIAL KIDS DAY INC

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

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

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SPECIAL KIDS DAY INC: 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 SPECIAL KIDS DAY INC?
SPECIAL KIDS DAY INC (Illinois) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $52,750 to it, the largest being THE DUPAGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($38,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 73% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does SPECIAL KIDS DAY INC have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $52,750 in grants to SPECIAL KIDS DAY INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SPECIAL KIDS DAY INC?
THE DUPAGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $38,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SPECIAL KIDS DAY INC 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 3 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing