Illinois · Nonprofit
A KNOCK AT MIDNIGHT INC
A KNOCK AT MIDNIGHT INC (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,470 to it, the largest being ROBERT R MCCORMICK FOUNDATION ($9,620). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 77% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.2M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $12k
- Net assets
- $233k
What A Knock at Midnight Inc does
Mission
To collaborate and build linkages with schools, churches, nonprofits, private community organizations, the juvenile justice system, and other government institutions.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
SAFE PASSAGE - program that is implemented at select schools, identified by CPS. The Organization provides a positive, trusted adult to be present at each school for which we are contracted to ensure students safety as they travel to and from school. Our Safe Passage workers are posted on Safe Passage routes to support children traveling to and from school during arrival and dismissal time.
$879,755 spent$1,100,450 earned by the program30% of program spendingOne summer chicago, summer youth employment program - six week summer academic instruction program
$301,073 spent$304,271 earned by the program10% of program spendingR3 - the organization provides a skills development program to 30 youth to prepare them for it training, employment, and post-secondary enrollments.
$284,207 spent$289,020 earned by the program10% of program spendingFamily advocacy center - provides services to promote permanency by maintaining, streangth, and safeguarding the functions of families to: prevent substitute care placement; promote family reunification; stabilize foster care placements; facilitate youth development; and ensure the safety, permanency, and wellbeing of children.
$284,190 spent$319,840 earned by the program10% of program spendingOther program services - the organization has several other programs funded by state,city, and federal revenue grants. Through these grants, the organization provides prevention education, violence prevention, and family services.
$277,929 spent10% of program spendingReimagine public safety - provides community violence prevention program services.
$266,712 spent$267,531 earned by the program9% of program spendingUPWARD BOUND PROGRAM provides fundamental pursuits. The program provides opportunities for participants to succeed in their education The goal of AKAM-UPWARD BOUND is to increase the rate at which participants complete secondary education and enroll in and graduate, from institutions of postsecondary education. During the academic school year, youth will receive counseling, academic advising skill enhancement group outings, mentoring and other beneficial workshops.
$231,302 spent$240,108 earned by the program8% of program spendingSCAN GREATER GRAND CROSSING - CHATHAM - The SCaN program model aims to reduce youth involvement in violence and improve youth wellbeing by providing youth with services, stability, and a network of community support to guide youth towards a successful transition to adulthood.
$192,135 spent$204,921 earned by the program7% of program spendingAccess 2 justice - focuses on communitites impacted by incarceration. Services and information are provided to the community and participants in three service areas: documentation & id; education & training; and criminal records relief.
$133,366 spent$128,326 earned by the program5% of program spendingDceo - career and vocational advocacy center for low-incone neighborhoods. The program will expand vocational training for the forklift operation and safety certificate program, commercial driver's license (cdl) training, and culinary arts vocational training pathway for youth afterschool.
$45,968 spent$24,588 earned by the program2% of program spending
The 10 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,896,637.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2024 to 2025, from $903k to $623k (−31%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 99% · 2024 96% · 2025 99%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of A KNOCK AT MIDNIGHT INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 6 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.
Board chair
Clenton Jones
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $0.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 77% 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 A KNOCK AT MIDNIGHT INC’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
A KNOCK AT MIDNIGHT INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 77% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 A KNOCK AT MIDNIGHT INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2022 100% — broadly stable.
“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
77% of A KNOCK AT MIDNIGHT INC'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 $3k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Illinois funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
A KNOCK AT MIDNIGHT INC's revenue grew 18% between 2020 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like A KNOCK AT MIDNIGHT INC
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
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds A KNOCK AT MIDNIGHT INC?
- A KNOCK AT MIDNIGHT INC (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,470 to it, the largest being ROBERT R MCCORMICK FOUNDATION ($9,620). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 77% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does A KNOCK AT MIDNIGHT INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $12,470 in grants to A KNOCK AT MIDNIGHT INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of A KNOCK AT MIDNIGHT INC?
- ROBERT R MCCORMICK FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $9,620 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like A KNOCK AT MIDNIGHT INC 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 2 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