Illinois · Nonprofit
Crystal Lake Parks Initiative Foundation
Crystal Lake Parks Initiative Foundation (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,500 to it, the largest being United Charitable ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 80% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
Crystal Lake Parks Initiative Foundation receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $13k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,005 recreation & sports nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- The Community Foundation for McHenry Countylocal
- Upper Mississippi Gaming Corpportfolio match
- The Fair Ways Foundation Incportfolio match
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 80% 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 Parks Initiative Foundation’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
Crystal Lake Parks Initiative Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 80% 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
80% 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 Crystal Lake Parks Initiative Foundation.
“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
80% of Crystal Lake Parks Initiative Foundation'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 $3k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Illinois funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 2 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The Community Foundation for McHenry CountylocalIL · funds 101 organizations near you
- Upper Mississippi Gaming Corpportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Fair Ways Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Illinois Clean Energy Community Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Iowa Savings Bank Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Community Foundation of Central Wisconsin Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Griffith Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Baker Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Keokuk Area Community Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mary Heath Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Raymond C and Linda M Stachowiak Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Exacto Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like Crystal Lake Parks Initiative Foundation
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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.
Public support
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Crystal Lake Parks Initiative Foundation: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds Crystal Lake Parks Initiative Foundation?
- Crystal Lake Parks Initiative Foundation (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,500 to it, the largest being United Charitable ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 80% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Crystal Lake Parks Initiative Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $12,500 in grants to Crystal Lake Parks Initiative Foundation.
- Who is the largest funder of Crystal Lake Parks Initiative Foundation?
- United Charitable is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Crystal Lake Parks Initiative Foundation 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 2025–2025), and the filings of 2funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing