Illinois · Nonprofit
CRITTENTON CENTERS
CRITTENTON CENTERS (Illinois) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $488,836 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($198,842). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 70% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.0M
- Funders on record
- 20
- Grants received
- $489k
- Net assets
- $7.2M
What Crittenton Centers does
Mission
Protect and nurture children and families
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Crisis nursery and respite care - provides emergency child care counseling to families with inadequate child rearing capabilities.
$988,900 spent$11,253 earned by the program41% of program spendingfamily advocacy - With the purpose of strengthening families and preserving the family unit, the Family Advocacy Center provides services to families involved with the child welfare system and families in need of additional support. The Family Advocacy Center supports family reunification and the prevention of substitute care placement by promoting safety, permanency and the well-being of children.
$552,308 spent$82,989 earned by the program23% of program spendingPrevention initiative - program that concentrates on children 0-3 yrs. Of age and their families offering a variety of services
$492,167 spent20% of program spendingParent education - provides case management services to teen parents to ensure they obtain a high school degree or equivalent and are prepared to work
$383,128 spent16% of program spendingStrengthening families initiative provides education to adult parents to give them tools and support to be better parents and improve parent-child interactions.
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,416,503.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 $5.2M to $6.5M (+26%).
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 32% · 2020 28% · 2021 31% · 2022 31% · 2023 29% · 2024 44% · 2025 52%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
87% of CRITTENTON CENTERS’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
Jeffrey Gress
President & CEO
Board chair
Ashley Spain
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 7 funders, grant income fell $53k → $49k.
10 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 70% 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 CRITTENTON CENTERS’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
CRITTENTON CENTERS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 65%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders 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 CRITTENTON CENTERS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 83% · 2018 63% · 2019 43% · 2020 43% · 2021 76% · 2022 54% · 2023 44% — 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
64% of CRITTENTON CENTERS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
70% of CRITTENTON CENTERS's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $144k that is directly attributable, 58% of it comes from funders outside Illinois, across 5 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $345k 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
CRITTENTON CENTERS's revenue grew 36% between 2019 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like CRITTENTON CENTERS
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
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
89%
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CRITTENTON CENTERS?
- CRITTENTON CENTERS (Illinois) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $488,836 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($198,842). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 70% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CRITTENTON CENTERS have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $488,836 in grants to CRITTENTON CENTERS, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CRITTENTON CENTERS?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $198,842 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CRITTENTON CENTERS 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 20 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