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Crime Stoppers Inc

Crime Stoppers Inc (Illinois) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,158 to it, the largest being 5KINGS ORG ($10,600). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$32k
Funders on record
6
Grants received
$18k
Net assets
$40k
3/6 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 2%
01What it does

What Crime Stoppers Inc does

Mission

To provide cash rewards to individuals and community members who provide information that aides in the solving of crimes.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Payments to individuals coordinating information and to individuals leading to an arrest

    $26,217 spent$30,793 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $26,217.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($111k) Expenses 100 ($111k) Net assets 100 ($62k)2018 Revenue 61 ($68k) Expenses 72 ($79k) Net assets 81 ($50k)2019 Revenue 64 ($71k) Expenses 59 ($65k) Net assets 89 ($56k)2020 Revenue 40 ($44k) Expenses 47 ($52k) Net assets 77 ($48k)2021 Revenue 24 ($27k) Expenses 37 ($41k) Net assets 55 ($34k)2022 Revenue 22 ($24k) Expenses 22 ($25k) Net assets 53 ($33k)2023 Revenue 34 ($37k) Expenses 27 ($30k) Net assets 65 ($40k)2024 Revenue 29 ($32k) Expenses 29 ($32k) Net assets 65 ($40k)
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Revenue (29)Expenses (29)Net assets (65)

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 $48k to $34k (−29%).

$62k
$50k
$56k
$48k
$34k
$33k
$40k
$40k
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 4% · 2018 6% · 2019 6% · 2020 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$273
’17
−$12k
’18
$5k
’19
−$7k
’20
−$14k
’21
−$1k
’22
$7k
’23
−$63
’24
15
months of
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

Courtney Michaels

Executive Director

Board chair

Eugene A Childers

Chairman

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018, and between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.

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Listed78181514141415
Joined·+2+11+0+1+0+0+1
No longer listed·1132000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2021: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $500 → $26.

1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 Crime Stoppers 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

Crime Stoppers Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

58%
largest funder
91%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 50% · 2020 97% · 2021 100% — broadly stable.

“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

94% of Crime Stoppers Inc's grant income comes from Illinois funders.

IL
NC

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

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’18
’20
Illinois out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $58 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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 Crime Stoppers 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.

Where the money goes

82% of spending goes to programs.

Program 82%Management 18%Fundraising 0%

Governance

15
board members
93%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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

IL

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Crime Stoppers 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 Crime Stoppers Inc?
Crime Stoppers Inc (Illinois) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,158 to it, the largest being 5KINGS ORG ($10,600). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Crime Stoppers Inc have?
IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $18,158 in grants to Crime Stoppers Inc, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Crime Stoppers Inc?
5KINGS ORG is the largest funder on record, with $10,600 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Crime Stoppers 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 6 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