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ALIVE CENTER NFP

ALIVE CENTER NFP (Illinois) receives grants from 44 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,112,460 to it, the largest being THE DUPAGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($382,860). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$1.0M
Funders on record
44
Grants received
$1.1M
Net assets
$415k
27/44 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 22%
01What it does

What Alive Center Nfp does

Mission

Create teen-led, teen-driven centers

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Drop-in and teen initiated programming at the naperville center-napervile teen drop-in and progamming serves 5-12th graders monday through friday from 3:00 to 7:00 p.m. On any given day, we may have tutoring, mentoring, clubs, including life skills classes, financial management, unstructured art and dance, nutrition, healthy cooking, stress management, open music venues, creative writing, stem and fun we also provide 4th-12th graders with summer camp programming. Tutoring inludes kindergarten through 12th. In 2025 we had 634 teens visiting for a total of 7,071 visits.

    $385,958 spent$2,264 earned by the program
    53% of program spending
  2. Drop-in and teen initiated programming at the aurora center - aurora teen drop-in and programming serves 5-12th graders, 3 days a week after school and in the summer. Our programming may include tutoring, mentoring, clubs, including life skills classes, financial management, art classes, nutrition, stress management, creative writing, stem and fun we also provide 4th-12th graders with summer camp programming. In 2025, we had 186 teens visiting for a totoal of 2,420 visits.

    $118,850 spent$1,347 earned by the program
    16% of program spending
  3. Drop-in and teen initiated programming at the hanover park center - hanover park teen drop-in and programming serves 5-12th graders, 3 days a week after school and in the summer. Our programming includes life skills classes, financial management, art, music, nutrition, healthy cooking, stress management, creative writing, stem and fun in 2025 we had 201 teens visiting for a total of 2,029 visits.

    $122,695 spent$885 earned by the program
    17% of program spending
  4. Other

    $100,748 spent$267 earned by the program
    14% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $728,251.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($574k) Expenses 100 ($407k) Net assets -120 ($-29121)2019 Revenue 99 ($569k) Expenses 137 ($558k) Net assets -73 ($-17774)2020 Revenue 108 ($619k) Expenses 142 ($577k) Net assets 100 ($24k)2021 Revenue 120 ($685k) Expenses 135 ($549k) Net assets 684 ($166k)2022 Revenue 131 ($749k) Expenses 184 ($748k) Net assets 640 ($155k)2023 Revenue 145 ($833k) Expenses 208 ($846k) Net assets 614 ($149k)2024 Revenue 188 ($1.1M) Expenses 222 ($902k) Net assets 1355 ($329k)2025 Revenue 179 ($1.0M) Expenses 232 ($944k) Net assets 1711 ($415k)
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Revenue (179)Expenses (232)Net assets (1711)Peer revenue range

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 $184k to $632k (+243%).

$165k
$144k
$153k
$250k
$196k
$184k
$632k
$584k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2018 3% · 2019 5% · 2020 17% · 2021 9% · 2022 7% · 2023 7% · 2024 9% · 2025 41%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

93% of ALIVE CENTER NFP’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,038 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$166k
’18
$11k
’19
$42k
’20
$136k
’21
$645
’22
−$13k
’23
$175k
’24
$82k
’25
3.4
months of
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.

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Listed1212121313161314
Joined·+2+2+2+4+5+1+4
No longer listed·2214243
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 18 funders, grant income rose $15k → $179k.

11 of 44 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 46% 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 ALIVE CENTER NFP’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 44 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

ALIVE CENTER NFP has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 34% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

67% 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 ALIVE CENTER NFP.

34%
largest funder
51%
top three
~7
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 63% · 2018 33% · 2019 32% · 2020 56% · 2021 20% · 2022 43% · 2023 17% — diversifying over time.

“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

39% of ALIVE CENTER NFP's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

52% of ALIVE CENTER NFP's grant income comes from Illinois funders.

MN
IL
MI
NY
IN
OH
PA
TX
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Illinois out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $511k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

ALIVE CENTER NFP runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,152 youth development nonprofits its size.

Operating margin8% · above the median
Months of reserve3.4mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)9% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,152 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

77% of spending goes to programs.

Program 77%Management 14%Fundraising 9%

Governance

13
board members
92%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

90%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

IL

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Questions and answers

Who funds ALIVE CENTER NFP?
ALIVE CENTER NFP (Illinois) receives grants from 44 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,112,460 to it, the largest being THE DUPAGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($382,860). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ALIVE CENTER NFP have?
IRS filings report 44 organizations giving $1,112,460 in grants to ALIVE CENTER NFP, 27 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ALIVE CENTER NFP?
THE DUPAGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $382,860 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ALIVE CENTER NFP 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 44 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