Illinois · Nonprofit
ADVOCACY NETWORK FOR CHILDREN
ADVOCACY NETWORK FOR CHILDREN (Illinois) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,677,325 to it, the largest being ILLINOIS ASSOCIATION OF COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES ($1,201,456). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $1.7M
- Net assets
- $440k
What Advocacy Network for Children does
Mission
To protect and uphold the rights of children when wrongs have been committed against them, to help abused or neglected children have safe permanent homes where they can thrive, to act as a powerful voice in these children's best interests and to educate the public about the plight of abused children.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Recruit, train and supervise court appointed special advocates for abused and neglected children (birth to 18 years) who enter the juvenile court system, and to establish a child advocacy center to coordinate the investigation, prosecution, and treatment referral of child sexual abuse and physical abuse cases.
$1,188,084 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,188,084.
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 2017 to 2018, from $277k to $625k (+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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 37% · 2018 56% · 2019 60% · 2020 69% · 2021 60% · 2022 76% · 2023 76% · 2024 78% · 2025 79%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of ADVOCACY NETWORK FOR CHILDREN’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Todd Shackelford
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $30k → $325k.
2 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 ADVOCACY NETWORK FOR CHILDREN’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
ADVOCACY NETWORK FOR CHILDREN leans on a few funders — its largest provides 72% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
93% 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 ADVOCACY NETWORK FOR CHILDREN.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 100% · 2019 67% · 2020 61% · 2021 80% · 2022 78% · 2023 69% — 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
67% of ADVOCACY NETWORK FOR CHILDREN's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 73% 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
88% of ADVOCACY NETWORK FOR CHILDREN's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $16k 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.
Against its field
ADVOCACY NETWORK FOR CHILDREN's funding base is broadening — from 3 funders to 6 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 431 civil rights nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like ADVOCACY NETWORK FOR CHILDREN
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
84% 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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ADVOCACY NETWORK FOR CHILDREN: 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 ADVOCACY NETWORK FOR CHILDREN?
- ADVOCACY NETWORK FOR CHILDREN (Illinois) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,677,325 to it, the largest being ILLINOIS ASSOCIATION OF COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES ($1,201,456). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ADVOCACY NETWORK FOR CHILDREN have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $1,677,325 in grants to ADVOCACY NETWORK FOR CHILDREN, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ADVOCACY NETWORK FOR CHILDREN?
- ILLINOIS ASSOCIATION OF COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES is the largest funder on record, with $1,201,456 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ADVOCACY NETWORK FOR CHILDREN 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 11 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