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Companions Journeying Together Inc

Companions Journeying Together Inc (Illinois) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $62,704 to it, the largest being THE SEABURY FOUNDATION ($23,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$105k
Funders on record
9
Grants received
$63k
Net assets
$57k
3/9 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 14%
01What it does

What Companions Journeying Together Inc does

Mission

Companions Journeying Together provides a forum to personally impact the emotional spiritual and social lives of the incarcerated and their families. We work based on the principles of restorative justice.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Aunt Marys Storybook: We have the program operating n 15 institutions throughout the state of llinois and expect to impact more than 750 families

    $56,342 spentof which $28,000 as grants
    100% of program spending
  2. Pen Pal: Pen Pal programs connect those in custody with those who will write to them on a monthly basis

    $28 spent
    0% of program spending
  3. Card Ministry: We sent over 13,000 Christmas cards and 5,000 Mothers Day packets to 15 institutions across the state

    $179 spent
    0% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $56,549.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($65k) Expenses 100 ($69k) Net assets 100 ($11k)2021 Revenue 127 ($83k) Expenses 109 ($74k) Net assets 176 ($20k)2022 Revenue 73 ($47k) Expenses 84 ($57k) Net assets 87 ($10k)2023 Revenue 132 ($86k) Expenses 83 ($57k) Net assets 344 ($39k)2024 Revenue 139 ($90k) Expenses 118 ($81k) Net assets 426 ($48k)2025 Revenue 162 ($105k) Expenses 141 ($97k) Net assets 500 ($57k)
202020212022202320242025
Revenue (162)Expenses (141)Net assets (500)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $34k to $62k (+84%).

$43k
$45k
$34k
$62k
$49k
$58k
202020212022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

−$3k
’20
$9k
’21
−$10k
’22
$29k
’23
$9k
’24
$8k
’25

Leadership and staff

Chief executive

Marv Baldwin

Executive Director

Board chair

Monica Halloran

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $0 → $10k.

3 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% 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 Companions Journeying Together Inc’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

Companions Journeying Together Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

37% 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 Companions Journeying Together Inc.

37%
largest funder
79%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 70% · 2021 86% · 2022 84% · 2023 74% — 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

50% of Companions Journeying Together Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 33% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

64% of Companions Journeying Together Inc's grant income comes from Illinois funders.

IL
WI
TN

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Illinois out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $18k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like Companions Journeying Together Inc

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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

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

IL

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Companions Journeying Together Inc: 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 Companions Journeying Together Inc?
Companions Journeying Together Inc (Illinois) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $62,704 to it, the largest being THE SEABURY FOUNDATION ($23,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Companions Journeying Together Inc have?
IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $62,704 in grants to Companions Journeying Together Inc, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Companions Journeying Together Inc?
THE SEABURY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $23,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Companions Journeying Together Inc 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 9 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