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THE BIRTHDAY GIVING PROGRAM

THE BIRTHDAY GIVING PROGRAM (Illinois) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,023 to it, the largest being MassMutual Foundation Inc ($5,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$51k
Revenue FY2025
3
Funders on record
$6k
Grants received
$2k
Net assets
1/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 9%

Against its field

THE BIRTHDAY GIVING PROGRAM has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,133 public benefit nonprofits its size.

Operating margin4% · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)51% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,133 public benefit nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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 ($2k) Expenses 100 ($3k) Net assets -11 ($-739)2018 Revenue 525 ($10k) Expenses 125 ($3k) Net assets 100 ($7k)2019 Revenue 475 ($9k) Expenses 339 ($9k) Net assets 101 ($7k)2020 Revenue 2558 ($49k) Expenses 1904 ($50k) Net assets -23 ($-1570)2021 Revenue 3376 ($64k) Expenses 2161 ($57k) Net assets 108 ($7k)2022 Revenue 3056 ($58k) Expenses 2021 ($54k) Net assets 72 ($5k)2023 Revenue 2469 ($47k) Expenses 1237 ($33k) Net assets 214 ($14k)2024 Revenue 2767 ($53k) Expenses 1974 ($52k) Net assets 8 ($546)2025 Revenue 2669 ($51k) Expenses 1851 ($49k) Net assets 29 ($2k)
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Revenue (2669)Expenses (1851)Net assets (29)Peer revenue range

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
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of THE BIRTHDAY GIVING PROGRAM’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (97% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,215 orgs

Surplus & reserves

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

$739
17
$7k
18
$91
19
$2k
20
$7k
21
$5k
22
$14k
23
$546
24
$2k
25
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $500 → $123.

Funder
'18
'20
'21
'22
'23
total
funders
1
1
1
2
1

1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)9% 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 THE BIRTHDAY GIVING PROGRAM’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

THE BIRTHDAY GIVING PROGRAM leans on a few funders — its largest provides 83% 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

83%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 98% · 2023 100%broadly stable.

“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

THE BIRTHDAY GIVING PROGRAM draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 2 states in all.

NY
MA

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

18
22
Illinois out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $523 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like THE BIRTHDAY GIVING PROGRAM

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Illinois

Nationally

04Profile & 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.

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE BIRTHDAY GIVING PROGRAM: 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds THE BIRTHDAY GIVING PROGRAM?
THE BIRTHDAY GIVING PROGRAM (Illinois) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,023 to it, the largest being MassMutual Foundation Inc ($5,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does THE BIRTHDAY GIVING PROGRAM have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $6,023 in grants to THE BIRTHDAY GIVING PROGRAM, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of THE BIRTHDAY GIVING PROGRAM?
MassMutual Foundation Inc 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 THE BIRTHDAY GIVING PROGRAM 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.

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 3funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing