Illinois · Nonprofit
CHRISTIAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF ILLINOIS
CHRISTIAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF ILLINOIS (Illinois) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,440,085 to it, the largest being CWI WORKS INC ($4,639,253). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $50M
- Funders on record
- 29
- Grants received
- $6.4M
- Net assets
- $13M
What Christian Social Services of Illinois does
Mission
Caritas family solutions strengthens the social and emotional well-being of individuals and families in order to create healthy relationships, loving homes and strong communities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
The community family stabilization program ended in fiscal year 2025.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
Foster care: facilitating the placement of children in safe and loving foster homes, walking alongside birth families to address the concerns that brought their child(ren) into care, and ultimately securing stable futures for children.in fy 2025, 1,673 children were served through the hospitality of 1,168 foster homes; 436 new children entered the agency's foster care program; 448 children achieved permanency including 182 who were adopted. This program is supported by the illinois department of children and family services.
$27,131,594 spent64% of program spendingYouth therapeutic treatment center (yttc) - the yttc in belleville, il provides a loving, caring and structured home for up to 33 boys and girls, ages 6-18, who need to heal from extreme trauma. At the yttc, the children receive individual, group and family therapy, as needed, so that they may become part of a loving family. In fy 2025, 8,836 days of residential care were provided (24/7 care for an average of 27 children per day) this program is supported by the illinois department of children and family services.
$6,274,629 spent15% of program spendingCommunity integrated living arrangements (cila): an opportunity for adults with developmental disabilities to live in a loving, caring home environment where they can experience independence and community. This program is supported by the illinois department of human services.
$3,606,170 spent9% of program spendingEmergency shelter - caritas offers a residential group home environment which provides for youth in care who have no other placement alternatives and need a temporary residence. This program is supported by the illinois department of children and family services.
$1,604,924 spent4% of program spendingIntact program -caritas helps families who are struggling and are at risk of their children entering the foster care system. In fy 2025, 449 parents and children were served. Of those served, 308 intact clients were children and 155 new children entered the intact program. This program is supported by the illinois department of children and family services.
$1,597,702 spent4% of program spendingTeen parenting treatment center (tptc)- caritas offers a residential group home environment which provides therapeutic and supportive services to pregnant or parenting foster care youth to support stabilization and/or reconnection to family leading to successful permanency. Staff are trained on trauma-informed care methodologies that introduce building successful parenting skills, independence and individual stabilization. This program is supported by the illinois department of children and family services.
$1,075,073 spent3% of program spendingFox river - this 30 unit apartment community provides meals, housekeeping, social services and other daily assistance to the elderly 60 years of age and older. Low to moderate-income people within this community receive this assistance through a contract with the illinois department of aging.
$769,074 spent$206,066 earned by the program2% of program spendingPrivate adoption services - services to families exploring adoption as a family-building journey.
$167,686 spent0% of program spendingCommunity family stabilization - offering assistance to individuals and families experiencing housing instability or homelessness, including shelter, transitional housing, and housing support programs. This program is supported by housing and urban development.this program closed in fiscal year 2025.
$133,125 spent0% of program spending
The 9 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $42,359,977.
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 2019 to 2020, from $13M to $19M (+40%).
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: 2019 88% · 2020 91% · 2021 93% · 2022 95% · 2023 93% · 2024 95% · 2025 95%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of CHRISTIAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF ILLINOIS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Board chair
Sean Ketcherside
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $646k → $894k.
11 of 29 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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 CHRISTIAN SOCIAL SERVICES 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
CHRISTIAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF ILLINOIS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 72% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
95% 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 CHRISTIAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF ILLINOIS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 82% · 2018 88% · 2019 88% · 2020 40% · 2021 89% · 2022 76% · 2023 69% — 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
42% of CHRISTIAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF ILLINOIS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
CHRISTIAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF ILLINOIS draws 95% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $599k arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
CHRISTIAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF ILLINOIS has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,297 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,297 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding CHRISTIAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF ILLINOIS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $182k on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$182k
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 CHRISTIAN SOCIAL SERVICES 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
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Southeastern Illinois Residential Organization (Siro) · exempt
- Caritas Family Solutions Foundation · exempt
- Fox River LP · partnership
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CHRISTIAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF ILLINOIS?
- CHRISTIAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF ILLINOIS (Illinois) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,440,085 to it, the largest being CWI WORKS INC ($4,639,253). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHRISTIAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF ILLINOIS have?
- IRS filings report 29 organizations giving $6,440,085 in grants to CHRISTIAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF ILLINOIS, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHRISTIAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF ILLINOIS?
- CWI WORKS INC is the largest funder on record, with $4,639,253 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHRISTIAN SOCIAL SERVICES 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.
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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 29 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