Illinois · Nonprofit
THE HOLIDAY HEROES FOUNDATION INC
THE HOLIDAY HEROES FOUNDATION INC (Illinois) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $428,920 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($278,664). 8 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 FY2025
- $548k
- Funders on record
- 29
- Grants received
- $429k
- Net assets
- $319k
What The Holiday Heroes Foundation Inc does
Mission
The mission of holiday heroes is to provide joy and entertainment to hospitalized children who are battling life threatening illnesses by hosting themed parties and bedside visits. Holiday heroes hospital parties and days of play take a child's mind away from the pain, anxiety and stresses of being hospitalized.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Holiday heroes delivered 6,000 age specific themed activity boxes and 5,700 sensory bags to hospital partners in 2025. They also offered 78 in-person hospital parties with a costumed character to patients while child life specialists passed their activity boxes to the children/patients.
$312,221 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $312,221.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2021 to 2022, from $279k to $171k (−39%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 12% · 2021 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
130% of THE HOLIDAY HEROES FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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.
Board chair
Tim Taylor
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 10 funders, grant income fell $61k → $46k.
7 of 29 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 THE HOLIDAY HEROES FOUNDATION 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
THE HOLIDAY HEROES FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 65% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
90% 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 THE HOLIDAY HEROES FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 80% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 68% · 2021 48% · 2022 30% · 2023 22% — 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
9% of THE HOLIDAY HEROES FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 28% give in more than one year at all.
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
73% of THE HOLIDAY HEROES FOUNDATION 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 $115k that is directly attributable, 51% of it comes from funders outside Illinois, across 8 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $314k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
THE HOLIDAY HEROES FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 7,883 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,883 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like THE HOLIDAY HEROES FOUNDATION 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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
69% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE HOLIDAY HEROES FOUNDATION INC?
- THE HOLIDAY HEROES FOUNDATION INC (Illinois) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $428,920 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($278,664). 8 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 THE HOLIDAY HEROES FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 29 organizations giving $428,920 in grants to THE HOLIDAY HEROES FOUNDATION INC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE HOLIDAY HEROES FOUNDATION INC?
- NETWORK FOR GOOD is the largest funder on record, with $278,664 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE HOLIDAY HEROES FOUNDATION 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 FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 29 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