Illinois · Nonprofit
COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY FOR MCHENRY COUNTY
COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY FOR MCHENRY COUNTY (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $64,142 to it, the largest being Mental Health Resource League for McHenry County Inc ($32,142). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.0M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $64k
- Net assets
- $756k
What Community Action Agency for McHenry County does
Mission
Our mission is to empower children and families in our local communities who have socioeconomic needs.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The agency is a head start program, which is a free, federally funded preschool/family program serving children three to five years old with families with socioeconomic needs.
$3,133,618 spent93% of program spendingThe agency provides food services for students. Full day students receive two nutritious meals and a snack each day and half day students receive one nutritious meal and a snack each day.
$242,469 spent7% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,376,087.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $239k to $693k (+190%).
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 97% · 2018 97% · 2019 97% · 2020 98% · 2021 97% · 2022 98% · 2023 98% · 2024 98% · 2025 98%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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 held at 1 funder, grant income fell $8k → $6k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 50% 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 COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY FOR MCHENRY 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
COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY FOR MCHENRY COUNTY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% 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
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 COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY FOR MCHENRY COUNTY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 87% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
100% of COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY FOR MCHENRY COUNTY's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $32k 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.
Government funding COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY FOR MCHENRY COUNTY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $29.3M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$29.3M
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 COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY FOR MCHENRY COUNTY
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
91% 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
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY FOR MCHENRY 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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Questions and answers
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY FOR MCHENRY COUNTY?
- COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY FOR MCHENRY COUNTY (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $64,142 to it, the largest being Mental Health Resource League for McHenry County Inc ($32,142). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY FOR MCHENRY COUNTY have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $64,142 in grants to COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY FOR MCHENRY COUNTY, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY FOR MCHENRY COUNTY?
- Mental Health Resource League for McHenry County Inc is the largest funder on record, with $32,142 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY FOR MCHENRY 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.
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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 2 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