Illinois · Nonprofit
COMPASSIONATE COMMUNITIES FOR CHILDREN
COMPASSIONATE COMMUNITIES FOR CHILDREN (Illinois) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,661,925 to it, the largest being ST GEORGE CORPORATION ($1,421,970). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.6M
- Funders on record
- 39
- Grants received
- $2.7M
- Net assets
- $1.5M
What Compassionate Communities for Children does
Mission
To reclaim children's right to grow up feeling safe, loved, and free from harm and to end the cycle of sexual exploitation through healing. Prevention and education in the chicagoland area.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
A new therapy clinic was opened in february 2023.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
Cherish house is a residential trauma care program for minor girls who have been recovered from trafficking.
$716,683 spent$9,180 earned by the program49% of program spendingThe mentoring program is led by trained mentors who are paired with survivors of trafficking to create long-term healing relationships to heal relational trauma.
$183,537 spent13% of program spendingThe courage house program is for women between ages 18 and 25 who have been recovered from trafficking and/or continuing care from being trafficked.
$397,390 spent27% of program spendingPrevention and awareness activities include development and distribution of "the path", a film about sex trafficking, speaking engagements, and information tables at various events. The clinic and first responder programs are two additional programs of the organization.
$167,496 spent$9,207 earned by the program11% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,465,106.
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 2022 to 2023, from $1.0M to $2.0M (+93%).
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 24% · 2020 57% · 2021 49% · 2022 43% · 2023 9% · 2024 37%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
101% of COMPASSIONATE COMMUNITIES FOR CHILDREN’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (93% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
Cassandra Ma
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 17 funders, grant income rose $84k → $808k.
13 of 39 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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 COMPASSIONATE COMMUNITIES FOR CHILDREN’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 39 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
COMPASSIONATE COMMUNITIES FOR CHILDREN leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
77% 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 COMPASSIONATE COMMUNITIES FOR CHILDREN.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 62% · 2018 61% · 2019 49% · 2020 33% · 2021 18% · 2022 33% · 2023 81% — 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
33% of COMPASSIONATE COMMUNITIES FOR CHILDREN's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 49% 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
89% of COMPASSIONATE COMMUNITIES FOR CHILDREN's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $566k 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
COMPASSIONATE COMMUNITIES FOR CHILDREN is better cushioned than half of the 1,337 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,337 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like COMPASSIONATE COMMUNITIES FOR CHILDREN
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
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
88%
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 COMPASSIONATE COMMUNITIES FOR CHILDREN: 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 COMPASSIONATE COMMUNITIES FOR CHILDREN?
- COMPASSIONATE COMMUNITIES FOR CHILDREN (Illinois) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,661,925 to it, the largest being ST GEORGE CORPORATION ($1,421,970). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COMPASSIONATE COMMUNITIES FOR CHILDREN have?
- IRS filings report 39 organizations giving $2,661,925 in grants to COMPASSIONATE COMMUNITIES FOR CHILDREN, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COMPASSIONATE COMMUNITIES FOR CHILDREN?
- ST GEORGE CORPORATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,421,970 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMPASSIONATE COMMUNITIES FOR CHILDREN 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 39 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing