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The Miracle League of Joliet

The Miracle League of Joliet (Illinois) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $89,990 to it, the largest being MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC ($30,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$149k
Funders on record
10
Grants received
$90k
Net assets
$521k
5/10 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 17%
01What it does

What The Miracle League of Joliet does

Mission

Provide opportunities for children and young adults with disabilities to play miracle league baseball, regardless of their abilities, promote community support and sponsorship of miracle leagues, and promote the construction of special facilitites which meet the unique needs of miracle league players and their families.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. The organization had a spring & fall baseball season, which included a total of approximately 110 players.

    $19,118 spent$12,168 earned by the program
    79% of program spending
  2. Other program services, not described on the e-filed return.

    $5,167 spent
    21% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $24,285.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($46k) Expenses 100 ($43k) Net assets 100 ($315k)2021 Revenue 193 ($89k) Expenses 123 ($54k) Net assets 111 ($350k)2022 Revenue 160 ($74k) Expenses 150 ($65k) Net assets 114 ($359k)2023 Revenue 167 ($77k) Expenses 149 ($65k) Net assets 118 ($372k)2024 Revenue 284 ($131k) Expenses 139 ($60k) Net assets 148 ($468k)2025 Revenue 323 ($149k) Expenses 224 ($97k) Net assets 166 ($521k)
202020212022202320242025
Revenue (323)Expenses (224)Net assets (166)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $372k to $468k (+26%).

$315k
$351k
$359k
$372k
$468k
$521k
202020212022202320242025
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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

88% of The Miracle League of Joliet’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (18% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 16,168 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$3k
’20
$35k
’21
$9k
’22
$13k
’23
$71k
’24
$52k
’25
15
months of
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.

Chief executive

Sharon Ferro

Executive Director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $7k → $7k.

3 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 40% 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 Miracle League of Joliet’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 Miracle League of Joliet leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 67%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

40% 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 Miracle League of Joliet.

33%
largest funder
67%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 71% · 2020 100% · 2021 41% · 2022 41% · 2023 69% — 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

33% of The Miracle League of Joliet's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y

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

54% of The Miracle League of Joliet's grant income comes from Illinois funders.

MT
IL
PA

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

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

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $36k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

The Miracle League of Joliet runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 10,453 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.

Operating margin35% · top quartile
Months of reserve14.6mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)26% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,453 recreation & sports nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

25% of spending goes to programs.

Program 25%Management 67%Fundraising 8%

Governance

0
board members
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

92%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds The Miracle League of Joliet?
The Miracle League of Joliet (Illinois) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $89,990 to it, the largest being MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC ($30,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does The Miracle League of Joliet have?
IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $89,990 in grants to The Miracle League of Joliet, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of The Miracle League of Joliet?
MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC is the largest funder on record, with $30,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like The Miracle League of Joliet 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 10 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