Illinois · Nonprofit
Wellness House
Wellness House (Illinois) receives grants from 118 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,535,501 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,047,160). 66 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.6M
- Funders on record
- 118
- Grants received
- $7.5M
- Net assets
- $4.6M
What Wellness House does
Mission
Wellness House envisions a community where all people affected by cancer thrive. Offered at no cost, and as a complement to medical treatment, our programs educate, support and empower participants so they will improve their physical and emotional well-being.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Exercise and Nutrition - Wellness House provides an exercise program that offers a wide range of physical activity options for cancer patients at all stages of survival and specializes in addressing the ever changing and individualized needs of participants. The nutrition program at Wellness House provides valuable information through classes and individual consultations which include nutritional education and provide suggestions regarding cancer - fighting foods that can be added to one's diet as well as foods to remove from one's diet. Individuals have made 24965 visits to our exercise and nutrition programs during the year. Programs are provided in-person and online.
$1,049,874 spentof which $38,014 as grants35% of program spendingSupport Groups and Counseling - social support leads to decreased depression and improved health outcomes to people affected by cancer. Monthly and weekly groups at Wellness House provide opportunities to connect with other people who are also living life with cancer. All groups are professionally facilitated by trained experts in psychosocial oncology. Individuals have made 8666 visits to support and networking programs during the year. Programs are provided in-person and online.
$730,654 spentof which $18,592 as grants24% of program spendingInformation and Education - access to education and cancer specific information promotes self-care and decreases treatment symptoms, allowing patients to better comply with their treatment. Wellness House facilitates educational workshops, led by experts in the field, to teach participants new information for coping with cancer. Individuals have made 8654 visits to our educational programs during the year. Programs are provided in-person and online.
$677,538 spentof which $29,606 as grants23% of program spendingChild & Family Programs
$278,214 spentof which $4,892 as grants9% of program spendingStress Management
$254,586 spentof which $8,713 as grants9% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,990,866.
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 2023 to 2024, from $4.3M to $5.1M (+17%).
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.
92% of Wellness House’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Chief executive
Lisa Kolavennu
Chief executive officer
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 32 funders to 54 funders, grant income rose $483k → $1.1M.
17 of 118 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 55% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $4.4M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Wellness House Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money Wellness House raised.
From the IRS filings of Wellness House’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 118 funders by total. 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
Wellness House has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
56% 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 Wellness House.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 22% · 2018 28% · 2019 39% · 2020 22% · 2021 29% · 2022 31% · 2023 30% — growing more concentrated.
“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
44% of Wellness House's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
55% of Wellness House'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 $3.4M that is directly attributable, 79% of it comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 15 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
Wellness House runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 5,002 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,002 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Wellness House
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
68% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
82%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Wellness House Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Wellness House: 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 Wellness House?
- Wellness House (Illinois) receives grants from 118 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,535,501 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,047,160). 66 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Wellness House have?
- IRS filings report 118 organizations giving $7,535,501 in grants to Wellness House, 66 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Wellness House?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $2,047,160 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Wellness House 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 118 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing