Illinois · Nonprofit
COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF LAKE COUNTY
COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF LAKE COUNTY (Illinois) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $853,642 to it, the largest being ILLINOIS ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCIES ($332,709). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $12M
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $854k
- Net assets
- $-2727299
What Community Action Partnership of Lake County does
Mission
Community Action Partnership of Lake County operates as a nonprofit organization located in waukegan, illinois servicing disadvantaged families by providing comprehensive health, education, nutritional and social services to preschool aged children and their families; affordable housing; weatherization of houses and assistance with energy bills through various energy programs and referral services through community services programs. Community Action Partnership of Lake County is supported primarily through federal and state government grants.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Low income household energy assistance programin 2023, 7668 households totaling 16340 individuals received assistance with their gas and electric utility bills to assistance with the increased cost of heating their homes during the winter months. 16 households received assistance to repair and/or replace their furnace to secure heat in their home.
$8,414,910 spentof which $7,116,455 as grants80% of program spendingCommunity services block grantin 2023 the program provided services to assist low-income households and individuals with their basic needs. Services provided in 2023 were as follows. 200 school age children received supplies needed to begin the school year, 122 households/individuals received assistance with rent to obtain or maintain housing, 32 individuals received assistance with temporary shelter to avoid homelessness, 8296 households received food assistance and 300 households received a holiday meal basket.
$2,093,771 spentof which $1,155,005 as grants$13,324 earned by the program20% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $10,508,681.
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 2020 to 2021, from $7.7M to $4.3M (−44%).
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 93% · 2018 95% · 2019 97% · 2020 89% · 2021 92% · 2022 97% · 2023 96% · 2024 92%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF LAKE COUNTY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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.
Chief executive
Mary Lockhart White
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 6 funders, grant income fell $240k → $38k.
3 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% 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 PARTNERSHIP OF LAKE COUNTY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 11 of 12 funders by total. 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 PARTNERSHIP OF LAKE COUNTY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
82% 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 PARTNERSHIP OF LAKE COUNTY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 59% · 2018 65% · 2019 100% · 2020 41% · 2021 51% · 2022 107% · 2023 66% — 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.
How long its funders stay
40% of COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF LAKE COUNTY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 83% 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
90% of COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF LAKE 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. $190k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF LAKE COUNTY runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 4,064 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,064 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF LAKE COUNTY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $14.6M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$14.5M
- Department of Labor$7k
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 PARTNERSHIP OF LAKE 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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF LAKE COUNTY?
- COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF LAKE COUNTY (Illinois) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $853,642 to it, the largest being ILLINOIS ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCIES ($332,709). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF LAKE COUNTY have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $853,642 in grants to COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF LAKE COUNTY, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF LAKE COUNTY?
- ILLINOIS ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCIES is the largest funder on record, with $332,709 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF LAKE 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 12 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