Illinois · Nonprofit
The Puddle Project NFP
The Puddle Project NFP (Illinois) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $122,952 to it, the largest being Crossroads Fund Inc ($50,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
The Puddle Project NFP has grown faster than three-quarters of the 14,813 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,813 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
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.
- Illinois Equal Justice Foundationshared funders
- Lawyers Trust Fund of Illinoisshared funders
- Visiting Nurse Association of Chicago (Aka) Vna Foundationshared funders
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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.
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 Puddle Project NFP’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $30 → $54k.
2 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 Puddle Project NFP’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 Puddle Project NFP leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
75% 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 Puddle Project NFP.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 99% · 2022 100% · 2023 46% — 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
72% of The Puddle Project NFP's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $13k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 statesis 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.
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. Your 8 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Illinois Equal Justice Foundationshared fundersIL · backs 27 organizations that share your funders
- Lawyers Trust Fund of Illinoisshared fundersIL · backs 26 organizations that share your funders
- Visiting Nurse Association of Chicago (Aka) Vna Foundationshared fundersIL · backs 51 organizations that share your funders
- Illinois Coalition Against Domestic Violenceshared fundersIL · backs 21 organizations that share your funders
- Blowitz-Ridgeway Foundationshared fundersIL · backs 47 organizations that share your funders
- Grant Hospital of Chicago D/B/A Grant Healthcare Foundationshared fundersIL · backs 27 organizations that share your funders
- The Albert Pick Jr Fundshared funderslocalIL · backs 38 organizations that share your funders · funds 130 organizations near you
- Michael Reese Health Trustshared funderslocalIL · backs 54 organizations that share your funders · funds 152 organizations near you
- Alphawood Foundationshared fundersIL · backs 49 organizations that share your funders
- Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rightsshared funderslocalIL · backs 29 organizations that share your funders · funds 98 organizations near you
- Healthy Communities Foundationshared funderslocalIL · backs 39 organizations that share your funders · funds 129 organizations near you
- Woods Fund of Chicagoshared fundersIL · backs 55 organizations that share your funders
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.
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 Puddle Project NFP: 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.
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 Puddle Project NFP?
- The Puddle Project NFP (Illinois) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $122,952 to it, the largest being Crossroads Fund Inc ($50,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The Puddle Project NFP have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $122,952 in grants to The Puddle Project NFP, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Puddle Project NFP?
- Crossroads Fund Inc is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Puddle Project NFP 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 FY2024 (financials across 2023–2024), and the filings of 8funders 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