Illinois · Nonprofit
THE FEW INITIATIVE FOR CHILDREN
THE FEW INITIATIVE FOR CHILDREN (Illinois) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,211 to it, the largest being THE EACH FOUNDATION ($5,555). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $6k
- Net assets
- $36k
What The Few Initiative for Children does
Mission
The organization conducts activities consistent with its purpose which is three fold: 1.) to increase awareness of at-risk and disadvantaged youth within the united states, 2.) to support not-for-profit organizations demonstrating commitment to aiding and supporting at-risk and disadvantaged youth, and 3.) to develop programs that directly benefit and engage at-risk and disadvantaged youth to provide healthy and productive alternatives.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Financial support was provided to not-for-profit organizations as well as tuition assistance for at-risk and disadvantaged students. The organization is starting to wind down and the majority of the recent support has been for tuition assistance.
$44,921 spentof which $44,906 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $44,921.
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 and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $40k to $110k (+176%).
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.
100% of THE FEW INITIATIVE FOR CHILDREN’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (99% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $6k → $39.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 FEW INITIATIVE FOR CHILDREN’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 FEW INITIATIVE FOR CHILDREN leans on a few funders — its largest provides 89% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 90% · 2022 100% · 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 FEW INITIATIVE FOR CHILDREN draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $156 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.
Against its field
THE FEW INITIATIVE FOR CHILDREN's revenue fell 96% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,200 youth development nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like THE FEW INITIATIVE FOR CHILDREN
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.
Where the money goes
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE FEW INITIATIVE FOR CHILDREN: 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 THE FEW INITIATIVE FOR CHILDREN?
- THE FEW INITIATIVE FOR CHILDREN (Illinois) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,211 to it, the largest being THE EACH FOUNDATION ($5,555). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE FEW INITIATIVE FOR CHILDREN have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $6,211 in grants to THE FEW INITIATIVE FOR CHILDREN, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE FEW INITIATIVE FOR CHILDREN?
- THE EACH FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5,555 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE FEW INITIATIVE FOR CHILDREN 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 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing