Illinois · Nonprofit
CHRISCROSS FOUNDATION
CHRISCROSS FOUNDATION (Illinois) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $235,197 to it, the largest being KARA J TROTT FAMILY FOUNDATION AKA LIFE LEAP FOUNDATION ($160,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $207k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $235k
- Net assets
- $202k
What Chriscross Foundation does
Mission
Expand awareness and provide financial assistance to families in need to access treatment for Addiction, Mental Health & Suicide Prevention. We have teamed up with Hope for the Day, the Foundation House sober living facilty and the American Foundation for Suicide prevention. Grant sizes vary but generally are matched by an equal or greater reduction in the cost of service by our program partners effectively doubling the financial benefit to candidates. Grants to the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention support programs focussed families and friends of loved ones lost to suicide and prevention programs aimed at college students and young adults. Hope for the Day grants are directed toward programming to young adults in high school and grade school for mental health awareness and education as well as suicide prevention.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
A $10,000 grant to expand awareness and education for treatment of mental health issues and suicide prevention through Hope for the Day. The grant was directed toward presentations to high school and grade school students in the Chicagoland area.
$10,000 spentof which $10,000 as grants5% of program spendingA grant of $30,000 provided to the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention for the Healing Conversations Program targeting families effected by suicide of a loved one. The program helps navigate bereavement and coping with loss. The grant also targeted programing for college students and young adults for suicide prevention.
$30,000 spentof which $30,000 as grants16% of program spendingGrants to the Foundation House for programming to treat individuals suffering from addiction, mental health and suicide prevention. Provided grants to 46 individuals totaling $128,187.50. Foundation House matches each grant with an equal or greater reduction in tuition resulting in a doubling of the financial benefit to the candidates.
$128,187 spentof which $128,187 as grants67% of program spendingOther services expenses including annual outreach and website fees.
$21,881 spent12% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $190,068.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 $95k to $185k (+95%).
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.
97% of CHRISCROSS FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 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
2022 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $19k → $17k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 30% 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 CHRISCROSS 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
CHRISCROSS FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 68% 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
30% 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 CHRISCROSS FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 74% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
CHRISCROSS FOUNDATION draws 97% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 2 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $70k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
CHRISCROSS FOUNDATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 7,883 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,883 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like CHRISCROSS FOUNDATION
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
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHRISCROSS 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CHRISCROSS FOUNDATION?
- CHRISCROSS FOUNDATION (Illinois) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $235,197 to it, the largest being KARA J TROTT FAMILY FOUNDATION AKA LIFE LEAP FOUNDATION ($160,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHRISCROSS FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $235,197 in grants to CHRISCROSS FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHRISCROSS FOUNDATION?
- KARA J TROTT FAMILY FOUNDATION AKA LIFE LEAP FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $160,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHRISCROSS 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 FY2025 (financials across 2023–2025), and the filings of 3 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