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CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF NORTH & NORTHWEST COOK COUNTY

CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF NORTH & NORTHWEST COOK COUNTY (Illinois) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,640,872 to it, the largest being United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc ($305,396). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$2.7M
Revenue FY2025
28
Funders on record
$1.6M
Grants received
$1.9M
Net assets
17/28 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 13%

Against its field

CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF NORTH & NORTHWEST COOK COUNTY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 694 crime & legal nonprofits its size.

Operating margin25% · top quartile
Months of reserve7.9mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)10% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 694 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.2M) Expenses 100 ($1.3M) Net assets 100 ($857k)2018 Revenue 140 ($1.7M) Expenses 108 ($1.4M) Net assets 135 ($1.2M)2019 Revenue 123 ($1.5M) Expenses 114 ($1.5M) Net assets 134 ($1.1M)2021 Revenue 139 ($1.7M) Expenses 127 ($1.6M) Net assets 122 ($1.0M)2022 Revenue 134 ($1.7M) Expenses 141 ($1.8M) Net assets 107 ($919k)2023 Revenue 140 ($1.7M) Expenses 144 ($1.8M) Net assets 128 ($1.1M)2024 Revenue 153 ($1.9M) Expenses 133 ($1.7M) Net assets 151 ($1.3M)2025 Revenue 215 ($2.7M) Expenses 157 ($2.0M) Net assets 226 ($1.9M)
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Revenue (215)Expenses (157)Net assets (226)Peer revenue range

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.

2017
2018
2019
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 41% · 2018 55% · 2019 62% · 2021 79% · 2022 70% · 2023 65% · 2024 67% · 2025 53%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

74% of CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF NORTH & NORTHWEST COOK COUNTY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (93% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,390 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$26k
17
$371k
18
$81k
19
$125k
21
$123k
22
$90k
23
$227k
24
$682k
25
7.9
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $122k → $224k.

8 of 28 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)29% 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 CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF NORTH & NORTHWEST COOK COUNTY’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

CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF NORTH & NORTHWEST COOK COUNTY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

67% 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 CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF NORTH & NORTHWEST COOK COUNTY.

19%
largest funder
53%
top three
~8
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 73% · 2018 42% · 2019 34% · 2020 20% · 2021 20% · 2022 29% · 2023 38%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

53% of CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF NORTH & NORTHWEST COOK COUNTY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

71% of CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF NORTH & NORTHWEST COOK COUNTY's grant income comes from Illinois funders.

MN
IL
NJ
MO
DE
DC
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Illinois out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $476k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

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 28 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

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 CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF NORTH & NORTHWEST COOK COUNTY

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

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

65% of spending goes to programs.

Program 65%Management 20%Fundraising 15%

Governance

18
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

94%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

IL

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF NORTH & NORTHWEST COOK COUNTY: 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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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 CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF NORTH & NORTHWEST COOK COUNTY?
CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF NORTH & NORTHWEST COOK COUNTY (Illinois) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,640,872 to it, the largest being United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc ($305,396). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF NORTH & NORTHWEST COOK COUNTY have?
IRS filings report 28 organizations giving $1,640,872 in grants to CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF NORTH & NORTHWEST COOK COUNTY, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF NORTH & NORTHWEST COOK COUNTY?
United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc is the largest funder on record, with $305,396 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF NORTH & NORTHWEST COOK COUNTY 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 28funders 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