Illinois · Nonprofit
CROSSROADS FUND INC
CROSSROADS FUND INC (Illinois) receives grants from 109 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,002,887 to it, the largest being JOHN D AND CATHERINE T MACARTHUR FOUNDATION ($5,705,525). 68 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.5M
- Funders on record
- 109
- Grants received
- $25M
- Net assets
- $16M
What Crossroads Fund Inc does
Mission
The mission of crossroads fund, inc. Is to support community organizations working on issues of racial, social, and economic justice in the chicago area.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Grant making - during the fiscal year dozens of grants were issued to organizations working for social change, health care access, youth organizing, workers' rights, criminal justice, and many other issues concerning social and economic justice.technical assistance and leadership development provided to grantees.educational programs designed to connect donors to grassroots organizations and to deepen the understanding of social justice issues.
$5,469,006 spentof which $4,018,165 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $5,469,006.
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 $13M to $19M (+40%).
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 6 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 13 funders to 52 funders, grant income rose $402k → $6.5M.
24 of 109 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% 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 CROSSROADS FUND INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 109 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
CROSSROADS FUND INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
29% 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 CROSSROADS FUND INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 24% · 2018 56% · 2019 53% · 2020 27% · 2021 34% · 2022 17% · 2023 28% — 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
52% of CROSSROADS FUND INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
71% of CROSSROADS FUND INC's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 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.
Organizations like CROSSROADS FUND 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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
76%
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 CROSSROADS FUND 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 CROSSROADS FUND INC?
- CROSSROADS FUND INC (Illinois) receives grants from 109 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,002,887 to it, the largest being JOHN D AND CATHERINE T MACARTHUR FOUNDATION ($5,705,525). 68 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CROSSROADS FUND INC have?
- IRS filings report 109 organizations giving $25,002,887 in grants to CROSSROADS FUND INC, 68 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CROSSROADS FUND INC?
- JOHN D AND CATHERINE T MACARTHUR FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5,705,525 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CROSSROADS FUND 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 109 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