Illinois · Nonprofit
CRYSTAL LAKE CARDINALS BASEBALL ASSOCIATION NFP
CRYSTAL LAKE CARDINALS BASEBALL ASSOCIATION NFP (Illinois) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,600 to it, the largest being THE PFIZER FOUNDATION INC ($3,600). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $605k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $5k
- Net assets
- $300k
What Crystal Lake Cardinals Baseball Association Nfp does
Mission
Provide local amateur baseball talent with opportunity to raise the level of play and community involvement in a fun, learning and competitive environment.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Provide opportunities for 9 year olds through college achieve personal goals. The organization is committed to the development of baseball and life skills through training and competition. The organization emphasizes work ethic, integrity, accountability, leadership, team work and sportsmanship.
$523,866 spent$515,518 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $523,866.
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. 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 2023 to 2024, from $338k to $690k (+104%).
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.
0% of CRYSTAL LAKE CARDINALS BASEBALL ASSOCIATION NFP’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (18% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 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
2021 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $1k → $2k.
1 of 3 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 CRYSTAL LAKE CARDINALS BASEBALL ASSOCIATION NFP’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 2 of 3 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
CRYSTAL LAKE CARDINALS BASEBALL ASSOCIATION NFP leans on a few funders — its largest provides 78% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 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
CRYSTAL LAKE CARDINALS BASEBALL ASSOCIATION NFP draws 78% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 2 states in all.
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.
Against its field
CRYSTAL LAKE CARDINALS BASEBALL ASSOCIATION NFP runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 15,520 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 15,520 recreation & sports nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like CRYSTAL LAKE CARDINALS BASEBALL ASSOCIATION NFP
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
100%
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 CRYSTAL LAKE CARDINALS BASEBALL ASSOCIATION NFP: 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 CRYSTAL LAKE CARDINALS BASEBALL ASSOCIATION NFP?
- CRYSTAL LAKE CARDINALS BASEBALL ASSOCIATION NFP (Illinois) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,600 to it, the largest being THE PFIZER FOUNDATION INC ($3,600). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CRYSTAL LAKE CARDINALS BASEBALL ASSOCIATION NFP have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $4,600 in grants to CRYSTAL LAKE CARDINALS BASEBALL ASSOCIATION NFP, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CRYSTAL LAKE CARDINALS BASEBALL ASSOCIATION NFP?
- THE PFIZER FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $3,600 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CRYSTAL LAKE CARDINALS BASEBALL ASSOCIATION NFP 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 3 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