Illinois · Nonprofit
CONTACT OF NORTHERN ILLINOIS
CONTACT OF NORTHERN ILLINOIS (Illinois) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $129,634 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF NORTHWEST ILLINOIS INC ($115,634). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $12k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $130k
- Net assets
- $0
What Contact of Northern Illinois does
Mission
Contact of Northern Illinois was established to provide a 24-hour, 7-day a week helpline. Over 70 volunteer listeners staff all services and the services are provided free of charge. In 2023 Contact of Northern Illinois handled 8,562 calls.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Helpline - 10% of all of our calls are from people calling our helpline. They are seeking a person to talk to.
$2,456 spent10% of program spendingReassurance - 90% of our calls are placed to our elderly reassurance clients. These calls are made to provide our elderly clients with someone to talk to and for medication reminders when needed.
$23,110 spent90% of program spendingInformation and referral services - less than 1% of all contact calls are those looking for information or referrals to community service programs in the northwestern illinois area.
$18 spent0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $25,584.
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 2023 to 2024, from $108k to $0 (−100%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $22k → $12k.
From the IRS filings of CONTACT OF NORTHERN 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
CONTACT OF NORTHERN ILLINOIS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 89% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
89% 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 CONTACT OF NORTHERN ILLINOIS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 95% · 2018 95% · 2019 100% · 2020 90% · 2021 100% · 2022 55% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
89% of CONTACT OF NORTHERN ILLINOIS's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Organizations like CONTACT OF NORTHERN ILLINOIS
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.
Public support
90%
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 CONTACT OF NORTHERN 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 CONTACT OF NORTHERN ILLINOIS?
- CONTACT OF NORTHERN ILLINOIS (Illinois) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $129,634 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF NORTHWEST ILLINOIS INC ($115,634). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CONTACT OF NORTHERN ILLINOIS have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $129,634 in grants to CONTACT OF NORTHERN ILLINOIS, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CONTACT OF NORTHERN ILLINOIS?
- UNITED WAY OF NORTHWEST ILLINOIS INC is the largest funder on record, with $115,634 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CONTACT OF NORTHERN 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.
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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 4 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