Illinois · Nonprofit
C4 Recovery Foundation
C4 Recovery Foundation (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,198,123 to it, the largest being Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program ($1,068,123). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 89% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
C4 Recovery Foundation has grown faster than three-quarters of the 7,105 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,105 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- The Fourten Foundationshared funders
- Rush University Medical Centerportfolio match
- Ruth Jones Macdonald Charitable Trustportfolio match
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.
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.
93% of C4 Recovery Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (87% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $30k → $25k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 89% 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 C4 Recovery Foundation’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
C4 Recovery Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 89% 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
89% 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 C4 Recovery Foundation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 62% · 2022 94% · 2023 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
89% of C4 Recovery Foundation'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 $130k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Illinois, across 1 state.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- The Fourten Foundationshared fundersNJ · backs 10 organizations that share your funders
- Rush University Medical Centerportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ruth Jones Macdonald Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Miller Cooper & Co Ltd Charitable Foundation C/O Tad Renderportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Gallo Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Hanley Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- New Harbor Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- PERT Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Achilles Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Barbara J Timmer Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Kusinski Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Geisen Scheper Charitable Fdn Inc Co USportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding C4 Recovery Foundation receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2k on record.
- (EE) ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES$2k
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 C4 Recovery Foundation
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- C4 Management LLC · disregarded
- C4 Recovery Solutions Inc · exempt
- C4 Consulting Inc · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for C4 Recovery Foundation: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds C4 Recovery Foundation?
- C4 Recovery Foundation (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,198,123 to it, the largest being Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program ($1,068,123). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 89% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does C4 Recovery Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $1,198,123 in grants to C4 Recovery Foundation, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of C4 Recovery Foundation?
- Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program is the largest funder on record, with $1,068,123 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like C4 Recovery Foundation 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 2funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing