Illinois · Nonprofit
CHICAGO CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER
CHICAGO CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER (Illinois) receives grants from 112 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,313,160 to it, the largest being LLOYD A FRY FOUNDATION ($1,291,000). 63 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $12M
- Funders on record
- 112
- Grants received
- $11M
- Net assets
- $8.5M
What Chicago Children's Advocacy Center does
Mission
The Chicago Children's Advocacy Center unites public, private, and community partners to ensure the safety, health, and well-being of abused children.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Mental health - chicagocac provided 7,034 hours of therapy to children and parents. Our clinicians provide crisis counseling, talk therapy, art therapy, and psychiatric services for children and families. We specifically target children and families experiencing immediate and severe mental health problems who have difficulty accessing mental health services in their community.
$3,644,513 spentof which $115,647 as grants46% of program spendingCase coordination and advocacy program - chicagocac coordinated 1,905 multidisciplinary investigations into reports of child sexual abuse, physical abuse, trafficking, witness to violence, and risk of harm cases. 1,606 forensic interviews were performed. Investigations often require children to be interviewed about the incident of abuse and sometimes children receive a forensic medical exam. Case coordinators contact parents to schedule appointments for these events and speak with each family about histories of domestic violence, medical and mental health problems, and needs related to language and disabilities. Chicagocac also provided advocacy and case management services to 1,677 new families. Advocates work on behalf of the children and families who come to the center. They explain and guide parents through the investigation and legal process, assess each family's needs, provide emotional support and counseling, and refer children and caretakers to other needed services in the family's community or at the center.
$3,335,689 spent42% of program spendingEducation - chicagocac provides training to the greater community on topics surrounding child sexual abuse. These trainings are tailored for the particular needs of a population (e.g., an audience of elementary school teachers will receive mandated reporter training in addition to training on child abuse). Chicagocac provided 194 trainings for 7,026 people.
$991,685 spent$13,356 earned by the program12% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $7,971,887.
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 2023 to 2024, from $4.7M to $8.2M (+74%).
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 63% · 2018 72% · 2019 60% · 2020 70% · 2021 69% · 2022 64% · 2023 70% · 2024 71% · 2025 66%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of CHICAGO CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (95% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
Charlene Rivette
Chief executive officer
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 22 funders to 45 funders, grant income rose $343k → $1.6M.
19 of 112 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% 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 CHICAGO CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 112 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
CHICAGO CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 11% of grant income, and it takes 8 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 8 funders to its left
50% 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 CHICAGO CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 29% · 2018 29% · 2019 22% · 2020 13% · 2021 23% · 2022 11% · 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
43% of CHICAGO CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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 CHICAGO CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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
CHICAGO CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 165 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 165 crime & legal nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding CHICAGO CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $4.3M on record.
- Department of Justice$3.3M
- Department of Health and Human Services$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 CHICAGO CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER
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
76% 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
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHICAGO CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: 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 CHICAGO CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER?
- CHICAGO CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER (Illinois) receives grants from 112 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,313,160 to it, the largest being LLOYD A FRY FOUNDATION ($1,291,000). 63 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHICAGO CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 112 organizations giving $11,313,160 in grants to CHICAGO CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER, 63 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHICAGO CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER?
- LLOYD A FRY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,291,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHICAGO CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 112 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