Illinois · Nonprofit
BACK OF THE YARDS NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL
BACK OF THE YARDS NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL (Illinois) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,302,211 to it, the largest being LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION ($2,321,024). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $7.1M
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $5.3M
- Net assets
- $3.4M
What Back of the Yards Neighborhood Council does
Mission
Provides services for the residents and businesses of the back of the yards neighborhood.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The council provided maintenance and beautification, coordinated marketing and promotional activities, business retention, security services, assisted the unemployed with finding a job and provided other technical assistance to businesses and individuals in the back of the yards community.
$4,384,282 spent$4,384,282 earned by the program75% of program spendingThe council provided various programs for youth summer employment and development in the back of the yards community.
$1,409,058 spent$1,409,058 earned by the program24% of program spendingSupport local businesses by providing appropriate business solutions and resources, produce engagement and communications with business property owners, brokers and developers, and strengthen the industrial sector and the city's industrial corridors
$70,437 spent$70,437 earned by the program1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,863,777.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $3.5M to $5.0M (+41%).
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 84% · 2018 87% · 2019 89% · 2020 87% · 2021 88% · 2022 79% · 2023 86% · 2024 89% · 2025 75%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Craig Chico
President/CEO
Board chair
Philip K Fuentes
Chairman and secretary
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $13k → $1.9M.
3 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% 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 BACK OF THE YARDS NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL’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
BACK OF THE YARDS NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
92% 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 BACK OF THE YARDS NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 92% · 2018 82% · 2019 67% · 2020 67% · 2021 28% · 2022 66% · 2023 80% — 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
44% of BACK OF THE YARDS NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 43% 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
BACK OF THE YARDS NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL draws 66% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.3M 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.
Organizations like BACK OF THE YARDS NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL
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
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
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 BACK OF THE YARDS NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL?
- BACK OF THE YARDS NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL (Illinois) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,302,211 to it, the largest being LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION ($2,321,024). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BACK OF THE YARDS NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $5,302,211 in grants to BACK OF THE YARDS NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BACK OF THE YARDS NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL?
- LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,321,024 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BACK OF THE YARDS NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL 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 21 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