Illinois · Nonprofit
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTH CENTRAL ILLINOIS INC
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTH CENTRAL ILLINOIS INC (Illinois) receives grants from 48 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,012,729 to it, the largest being BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA (GROUP RETURN) ($5,194,349). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $9.8M
- Funders on record
- 48
- Grants received
- $10M
- Net assets
- $11M
What Boys & Girls Clubs of North Central Illinois Inc does
Mission
To provide a safe place for children to learn and grow, provide ongoing relationships with caring, adult professionals, offer life-enhancing programs and character development experiences and to create hope and opportunity in our members' lives.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The boys & girls clubs of north central illinois provided comprehensive after-school and out-of-school-time programming across multiple sites, serving youth from underserved communities. This programming focused on academic support, tutoring, homework assistance, stem learning, and leadership development. The club partnered with local school districts, including u-46 and dekalb school district 428, and received grant support from programs such as 21st century community learning centers (federal) and teen reach. Over 5,000 youth participated in these programs, gaining academic skills, social-emotional support, and positive mentoring.
$5,598,636 spent$445,643 earned by the program77% of program spendingThe boys & girls clubs of north central illinois provides targeted prevention and intervention services for teens and high-risk youth including violence prevention, mentoring, workforce readiness, restorative justice, leadership development, and community-based intervention programming.
$1,251,314 spent$99,603 earned by the program17% of program spendingThe boys & girls clubs of north central illinois provides summer camp, enrichment, nutrition, and seasonal youth programming designed to reduce learning loss, provide meals and safe supervision, and increase access to educational and recreational opportunities during school breaks.
$406,576 spent$32,363 earned by the program6% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $7,256,526.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $11M to $14M (+24%).
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 2% · 2021 9% · 2022 52% · 2023 51% · 2024 53% · 2025 47%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Chief executive
Cathy Russell
CEO
Board chair
Steven Super
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $460k → $1.5M.
11 of 48 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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 BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTH CENTRAL ILLINOIS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 48 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
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTH CENTRAL ILLINOIS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
79% 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 BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTH CENTRAL ILLINOIS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 74% · 2018 56% · 2019 78% · 2020 42% · 2021 40% · 2022 40% · 2023 65% — 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
38% of BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTH CENTRAL ILLINOIS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% 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
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTH CENTRAL ILLINOIS INC draws 80% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 13 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $929k 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.
Government funding BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTH CENTRAL ILLINOIS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.0M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$1.0M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTH CENTRAL ILLINOIS 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
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTH CENTRAL ILLINOIS INC?
- BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTH CENTRAL ILLINOIS INC (Illinois) receives grants from 48 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,012,729 to it, the largest being BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA (GROUP RETURN) ($5,194,349). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTH CENTRAL ILLINOIS INC have?
- IRS filings report 48 organizations giving $10,012,729 in grants to BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTH CENTRAL ILLINOIS INC, 23 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTH CENTRAL ILLINOIS INC?
- BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA (GROUP RETURN) is the largest funder on record, with $5,194,349 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTH CENTRAL ILLINOIS 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 48 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