Illinois · Nonprofit
COUNSELING AND FAMILY SERVICES INC DBA FAMILYCORE
COUNSELING AND FAMILY SERVICES INC DBA FAMILYCORE (Illinois) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $937,733 to it, the largest being HEART OF ILLINOIS UNITED WAY INC ($695,516). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $9.5M
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $938k
- Net assets
- $1.7M
What Counseling and Family Services Inc Dba Familycore does
Mission
Mobilizing and integrating critical resources and opportunities to strengthen families and develop sustainable communities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Child welfare:foster care services provided for individuals. Provides a temporary, safe home for children in crisis until family conflicts are resolved and they can be reunited with their families. The goal of foster care is to reunite foster children with their biological families.
$6,452,212 spent70% of program spendingYouth outreach programs include the following:heart of peoria after school and summer program, day respite program for children, project respite help program, family school liaison program, and youth anger management program.
$2,088,336 spent23% of program spendingCounseling:counseling services provided for individuals. Specialty areas include: depression, anxiety, parent-child conflicts/parenting, school problems, pre-marital/marital concerns, job related/joblessness concerns, grief/loss, adolescence, trauma and stages of life adjustments.
$513,553 spent6% of program spendingMultiple services to single parents. Title xx social services provided to individuals.
$215,540 spent2% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $9,269,641.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2024 to 2025, from $4.1M to $3.7M (−9%).
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: 2018 75% · 2019 73% · 2021 80% · 2022 84% · 2023 80% · 2024 76% · 2025 75%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of COUNSELING AND FAMILY SERVICES INC DBA FAMILYCORE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 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
Ann Lading-Ferguson
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose $16k → $160k.
2 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 COUNSELING AND FAMILY SERVICES INC DBA FAMILYCORE’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
COUNSELING AND FAMILY SERVICES INC DBA FAMILYCORE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 74% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
95% 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 COUNSELING AND FAMILY SERVICES INC DBA FAMILYCORE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 95% · 2020 91% · 2021 89% · 2022 79% · 2023 72% — 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
67% of COUNSELING AND FAMILY SERVICES INC DBA FAMILYCORE's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 60% 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
96% of COUNSELING AND FAMILY SERVICES INC DBA FAMILYCORE's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $54k 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
COUNSELING AND FAMILY SERVICES INC DBA FAMILYCORE has grown faster than half of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like COUNSELING AND FAMILY SERVICES INC DBA FAMILYCORE
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
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 COUNSELING AND FAMILY SERVICES INC DBA FAMILYCORE: 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 COUNSELING AND FAMILY SERVICES INC DBA FAMILYCORE?
- COUNSELING AND FAMILY SERVICES INC DBA FAMILYCORE (Illinois) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $937,733 to it, the largest being HEART OF ILLINOIS UNITED WAY INC ($695,516). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COUNSELING AND FAMILY SERVICES INC DBA FAMILYCORE have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $937,733 in grants to COUNSELING AND FAMILY SERVICES INC DBA FAMILYCORE, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COUNSELING AND FAMILY SERVICES INC DBA FAMILYCORE?
- HEART OF ILLINOIS UNITED WAY INC is the largest funder on record, with $695,516 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COUNSELING AND FAMILY SERVICES INC DBA FAMILYCORE 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 10 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