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VARIETY THE CHILDRENS CHARITY OF ILLINOIS
VARIETY THE CHILDRENS CHARITY OF ILLINOIS (Illinois) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $111,366 to it, the largest being VARIETY-THE CHILDRENS CHARITY OF THE UNITED STATES ($82,585). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $248k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $111k
- Net assets
- $214k
What Variety the Childrens Charity of Illinois does
Mission
The organization works to improve the quality of life for children with disabilities by providing the equipment not covered by insurance and experiences needed to reach their highest potential.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Variety offers programs know as "variety at play" offering inclusive, accessible activities for the whole family. Variety provided several adaptive entertainment programs during the current fiscal year, benefitting over 2,500 children with disabilities and their families.
$77,040 spent$2,000 earned by the program55% of program spendingVariety provides assistive devices not covered by insurance to children with disabilities to support a higher quality of life as well as communication and engagement at home, school and their community through its "adapt my world" program and "kids on the go" program.
$62,001 spent$3,718 earned by the program44% of program spendingVariety the childrens charity of il offers support to the many special needs children of il. Some of the larger expenses are the sunshine coach used to support programming, and direct contributions to other organizations that are also helping the special needs children of il.
$1,090 spent1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $140,131.
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.
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 $147k to $332k (+126%).
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.
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.
Chief executive
Angelique Barthel
Executive director
Board chair
Mark Mazrimas
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $60 → $3k.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% 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 VARIETY THE CHILDRENS CHARITY OF ILLINOIS’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
VARIETY THE CHILDRENS CHARITY OF ILLINOIS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 74% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
96% 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 VARIETY THE CHILDRENS CHARITY OF ILLINOIS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 91% · 2020 99% · 2021 97% · 2022 99% · 2023 96% — 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
VARIETY THE CHILDRENS CHARITY OF ILLINOIS draws 95% 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. $24k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Organizations like VARIETY THE CHILDRENS CHARITY OF ILLINOIS
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
51% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 VARIETY THE CHILDRENS CHARITY OF ILLINOIS: 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 VARIETY THE CHILDRENS CHARITY OF ILLINOIS?
- VARIETY THE CHILDRENS CHARITY OF ILLINOIS (Illinois) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $111,366 to it, the largest being VARIETY-THE CHILDRENS CHARITY OF THE UNITED STATES ($82,585). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does VARIETY THE CHILDRENS CHARITY OF ILLINOIS have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $111,366 in grants to VARIETY THE CHILDRENS CHARITY OF ILLINOIS, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VARIETY THE CHILDRENS CHARITY OF ILLINOIS?
- VARIETY-THE CHILDRENS CHARITY OF THE UNITED STATES is the largest funder on record, with $82,585 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VARIETY THE CHILDRENS CHARITY OF ILLINOIS 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 7 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