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FRIENDS OF FONDACIONI FIRDEUS INC

EIN 84-3039807 EDWARDS, IL

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Revenue 2025
$4,906,312
Expenses 2025
$5,577,891

Program services were 97.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
P99
Classification
1000
Street
6136 W CLAIREMONT CT

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2025

Mission

TO PROVIDE DIGNIFIED HUMANITARIAN RELIEF AND PROMOTE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT FOR VULNERABLE ALBANIAN FAMILIES, EMPOWERING INDIVIDUALS IMPACTED BY POVERTY OR DISASTER TO RECOVER, REBUILD THEIR LIVELIHOODS, AND ACHIEVE LONG-TERM STABILITY.

  • BRAVE LITTLE WARRIORS - THIS PROGRAM IS A COMPASSIONATE INITIATIVE FOCUSED ON HELPING CHILDREN WITH SERIOUS OR CHRONIC ILLNESSES RECEIVE THE MEDICAL CARE THEY URGENTLY NEED, REGARDLESS OF THEIR FAMILY'S FINANCIAL SITUATION. BY COLLABORATING WITH FONDACIONI FIRDEUS, HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS, AND HOSPITALS, THE PROGRAM IDENTIFIES CHILDREN WHO REQUIRE MEDICAL SUPPORT AND COVERS EXPENSES SUCH AS SURGERIES, MEDICATIONS, AND DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURES. IN CASES WHERE SPECIALIZED TREATMENT IS UNAVAILABLE LOCALLY, THE FOUNDATION ARRANGES FOR CHILDREN TO RECEIVE CARE ABROAD, INCLUDING TRAVEL, ACCOMMODATIONS, AND MEDICAL COORDINATION. THIS INITIATIVE NOT ONLY SAVES LIVES BUT ALSO GIVES HOPE TO FAMILIES WHO MIGHT OTHERWISE HAVE NO ACCESS TO PROPER HEALTHCARE. ULTIMATELY, THE PROGRAM IS COMMITTED TO IMPROVING THE HEALTH AND FUTURE OF VULNERABLE CHILDREN.

    Expenses $3,300,000 · Grants $3,300,000

  • EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT: AS PART OF ITS COMMITMENT TO LONG-TERM COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, THE FOUNDATION IS SUPPORTING THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE HOUSE OF SOLIDARITY PROJECT, A PLANNED COMMUNITY CENTER INTENDED TO PROVIDE EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES FOR CHILDREN AND PROGRAMS FOCUSED ON SKILL-BUILDING AND PATHWAYS TO EMPLOYMENT. THE FOUNDATION'S SUPPORT CONTRIBUTES TO THE EARLY DEVELOPMENT OF A FUTURE HUB WHERE INDIVIDUALS AND FAMILIES MAY ACCESS LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES AND TOOLS FOR ECONOMIC ADVANCEMENT.

    Expenses $878,857 · Grants $850,000

  • POVERTY & HEALTH SUPPORT: THE FOUNDATION IS SUPPORTING THE EARLY DEVELOPMENT OF THE HOUSE OF SOLIDARITY, A PLANNED MULTIFUNCTIONAL CENTER INTENDED TO SERVE VULNERABLE POPULATIONS. THE FUTURE CENTER IS EXPECTED TO PROVIDE SOCIAL HOUSING FOR FAMILIES IN NEED, RESIDENTIAL SUPPORT FOR THE ELDERLY, AND ACCESS TO BASIC MEDICAL SERVICES. THE FOUNDATION'S SUPPORT CONTRIBUTES TO THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A LONG-TERM COMMUNITY SPACE DESIGNED TO DELIVER ESSENTIAL SERVICES THAT ADDRESS POVERTY AND IMPROVE HEALTH OUTCOMES.

    Expenses $828,092 · Grants $828,092

  • OTHER PROGRAMS WHICH INCLUDE GENERAL PROGRAMS AND NOURISHING LIVES.

    Expenses $435,423 · Grants $427,210

As filed on the 2025 return.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Shpetim Useini

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10
  • Genti Basha

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    20
  • Arjan Peza

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $4,906,312
    Expenses
    $5,577,891
    Contributions
    $4,906,312
    Grants paid
    $5,405,302
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $4,446,587
    Expenses
    $4,208,034
    Contributions
    $4,446,486
    Grants paid
    $4,027,520
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $4,548,089
    Expenses
    $2,796,031
    Contributions
    $4,548,089
    Grants paid
    $2,640,000
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $3,732,630
    Expenses
    $2,232,371
    Contributions
    $3,732,407
    Grants paid
    $2,092,568

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,309,295
    Expenses
    $2,294,153
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,123,501
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,610,993
    Expenses
    $1,477,725
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,108,359
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,677,837
    Expenses
    $63,683
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,786,759

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 11 November 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.