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CHRISTIAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF ILLINOIS

CHRISTIAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF ILLINOIS (Illinois) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,410,085 to it, the largest being SENIOR SERVICE AMERICA INC ($4,639,253). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$50M
Revenue FY2025
28
Funders on record
$6.4M
Grants received
$13M
Net assets
17/28 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 4%

Against its field

CHRISTIAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF ILLINOIS has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,000 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin3% · below the median
Months of reserve0.7mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)13% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,000 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, 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 ($19M) Expenses 100 ($19M) Net assets 100 ($2.3M)2018 Revenue 118 ($23M) Expenses 112 ($21M) Net assets 168 ($3.9M)2019 Revenue 136 ($26M) Expenses 133 ($25M) Net assets 220 ($5.1M)2020 Revenue 165 ($32M) Expenses 164 ($31M) Net assets 253 ($5.8M)2021 Revenue 196 ($38M) Expenses 194 ($37M) Net assets 320 ($7.4M)2022 Revenue 205 ($40M) Expenses 207 ($39M) Net assets 326 ($7.5M)2023 Revenue 233 ($45M) Expenses 231 ($44M) Net assets 403 ($9.3M)2024 Revenue 244 ($47M) Expenses 242 ($46M) Net assets 484 ($11M)2025 Revenue 261 ($50M) Expenses 259 ($49M) Net assets 548 ($13M)
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Revenue (261)Expenses (259)Net assets (548)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
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

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).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,397 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$404k
17
$1.5M
18
$1.1M
19
$732k
20
$1.2M
21
$533k
22
$1.4M
23
$1.4M
24
$1.4M
25
0.7
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $646k → $894k.

11 of 28 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 90%; 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.

72%
largest funder
90%
top three
~2
effective funders

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; 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

CHRISTIAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF ILLINOIS draws 95% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 5 states in all.

IL
NY
NJ
MO
MD

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. $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.

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.

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.

Federal$182k
grants $182kcontracts $0
Top agencies
  • 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

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

87% of spending goes to programs.

Program 87%Management 12%Fundraising 1%

Governance

22
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

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

IL

Part of a family of 3 related entities

  • Southeastern Illinois Residential Organization (Siro) · exempt
  • Caritas Family Solutions Foundation · exempt
  • Fox River LP · partnership

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHRISTIAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF ILLINOIS: 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 CHRISTIAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF ILLINOIS?
CHRISTIAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF ILLINOIS (Illinois) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,410,085 to it, the largest being SENIOR SERVICE AMERICA INC ($4,639,253). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CHRISTIAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF ILLINOIS have?
IRS filings report 28 organizations giving $6,410,085 in grants to CHRISTIAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF ILLINOIS, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CHRISTIAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF ILLINOIS?
SENIOR SERVICE AMERICA 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.

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