· Public charity
Illinois Action for Children
Illinois Action for Children uplifts children and all who care for them, advancing strong families and prosperous communities.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Kiddie Academy Of Mount Prospect | $7,011 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–23, $42k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +68% since the first grant, against +39% for those funded once.
7 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CPCONCORDIA PLACE7× · 2018–2025 · $24k · revenue +68%
- TLThe Learning Tree of East Elgin (Premier IL Elgin East3× · 2021–2023 · $17k
- SLSmart Learning Center A5× · 2017–2025 · $14k
Funded once
- LALittle Achievers4× · 2020–2023 · $8k
- RDRainbow Daycare4× · 2017–2020 · $6k
- HKHappy Kids Preschool & Daycare Ctr3× · 2017–2019 · $5k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
In 2001, Joyful Learning Educational Development Center (Joyful Learning EDC) was founded with a clear vision to provide accessible, high-quality childcare that meets the diverse needs of every child.
Provide christian based daycare and pre-school
Child care services and child preschool instruction
Day Care ServicesYour needs and your childs needs are our top priority Our focus is on development and communication skills of children We work closely with parents and our community
The center provides quality care and education to children of working parents and is licensed to care for 44 children from ages 6 weeks to 5 years old.
Our mission is to provide quality and safe childcare for the families in our community and provide our youngest learners with a positive start to their education journey.
Provide high quality child care and creative opportunities for growth, development, and lifelong learning in a nurturing, reliable, and affordable environment.
To improve the learning for the childrens in the community
Little Beginnings provides pre kindergarten and day care to children under 6 years of age. We believe that learning and playing are synonymous for the preschool age child. Young children learn best when they have an opportunity to practice…
Education and social developement center to provide preschool and after school care to children while promoting a child's emotional, educational and physical growth.
How this is measured
35 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Henry Booth House · Community Services for Children Inc · Women's Business Development Center · YWCA Metropolitan Chicago · Think Small · Early Learning Coalition of Broward County Inc · The Allstate Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Illinois Action for Children funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Illinois Action for Children. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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