Illinois · Nonprofit
CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTERS OF ILLINOIS
CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTERS OF ILLINOIS (Illinois) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,495,445 to it, the largest being NATIONAL CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE INC ($3,372,479). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $20M
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $3.5M
- Net assets
- $96k
What Children's Advocacy Centers of Illinois does
Mission
The Children's Advocacy Centers of Illinois is a state chapter of the national children's alliance. This organization promotes the children's advocacy center approach to prevention, intervention, and treatment of child abuse. The chapter provides technical assistance.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Caci provides grants to child advocacy centers located in illinois through a grant making process, monitors the sub-grantee funded to ensure compliance with program objectives, and reports financial and statiscal information to grantors on a monthly and quarterly basis.
$19,451,479 spentof which $18,034,797 as grants97% of program spendingCaci provides trainingg and technical assistance programs to developing and existing children's advocacy centers throughout illinois.
$575,798 spent3% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $20,027,277.
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 2017 to 2018, from $198k to $1.7M (+751%).
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 87% · 2018 98% · 2019 98% · 2020 99% · 2021 94% · 2022 95% · 2023 94% · 2024 97% · 2025 96%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTERS OF ILLINOIS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income fell $582k → $408k.
4 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 CENTERS OF ILLINOIS’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 CENTERS OF ILLINOIS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 96% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 CENTERS OF ILLINOIS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 96% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 97% — 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
20% of CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTERS OF ILLINOIS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 18% 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
CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTERS OF ILLINOIS draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $72k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTERS OF ILLINOIS has grown faster than three-quarters of the 152 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 152 crime & legal nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTERS OF ILLINOIS
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
100% 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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTERS OF ILLINOIS?
- CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTERS OF ILLINOIS (Illinois) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,495,445 to it, the largest being NATIONAL CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE INC ($3,372,479). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTERS OF ILLINOIS have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $3,495,445 in grants to CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTERS OF ILLINOIS, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTERS OF ILLINOIS?
- NATIONAL CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE INC is the largest funder on record, with $3,372,479 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTERS OF ILLINOIS 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 11 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