Illinois · Nonprofit
CHILD NETWORK INC
CHILD NETWORK INC (Illinois) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $332,663 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF KANKAKEE COUNTY INC ($114,356). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
CHILD NETWORK INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 7,812 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,812 housing & shelter 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.
- Ohio Network of Children's Advocacy Centersshared fundersportfolio match
- Riverside Medical Centerlocal
- Children's Advocacy Centers of Georgia Incportfolio match
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.
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 79% · 2018 79% · 2019 80% · 2020 68% · 2021 70% · 2022 54% · 2023 63% · 2024 78%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
91% of CHILD NETWORK INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (37% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $11k → $71k.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 CHILD NETWORK INC’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
CHILD NETWORK INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
88% 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 CHILD NETWORK INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 91% · 2018 100% · 2019 95% · 2020 95% · 2021 47% · 2022 72% · 2023 68% — 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.
Where its funders are
58% of CHILD NETWORK INC's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $65k 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.
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. Your 7 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Ohio Network of Children's Advocacy Centersshared fundersportfolio matchOH · backs 13 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Riverside Medical CenterlocalIL · funds 12 organizations near you
- Children's Advocacy Centers of Georgia Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Knot Today Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sexually Abused Children's Relief Endeavor (Sacred)portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Tennessee Chapter of Children's Advocacyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Children's Advocacy Centers of Arkansasportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Elgin Children's Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- World Childhood Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Missouri Network Against Child Abuseportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Children's Advocacy Centers of North Carolina Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Respect Togetherportfolio 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.
Organizations like CHILD NETWORK INC
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
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 CHILD NETWORK INC: 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 CHILD NETWORK INC?
- CHILD NETWORK INC (Illinois) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $332,663 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF KANKAKEE COUNTY INC ($114,356). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHILD NETWORK INC have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $332,663 in grants to CHILD NETWORK INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHILD NETWORK INC?
- UNITED WAY OF KANKAKEE COUNTY INC is the largest funder on record, with $114,356 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHILD NETWORK 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 7funders 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