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CRYSTAL LAKE TEEN CENTER

CRYSTAL LAKE TEEN CENTER (Illinois) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $315,915 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MCHENRY COUNTY ($172,500). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$275k
Funders on record
10
Grants received
$316k
Net assets
$32k
5/10 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 68%
01What it does

What Crystal Lake Teen Center does

Mission

To provide area adolescents and young adults a safe and stimulating environment for connecting, having fun, and finding acceptance among peers and adults in the community.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. The center will seek and acquire resources aimed at providing teenagers a safe and stimulating environment for connecting, having fun and finding acceptance among peers and adults in the community. This is accomplished by operating a teen center, the break.

    $201,265 spent$7,129 earned by the program
    89% of program spending
  2. The break helps the next generation of teens and young people acquire the tools to grow through adolescence and thrive into adulthood. Working collaboratively with our community partners, we build on their strengths and change destructive behaviors with experience, teen voice, and data- driven decision-making so they will take their place as contributing members and leaders in the community.

    $24,875 spent$10,250 earned by the program
    11% of program spending
  3. Contributions to other organizations

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $226,140.

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($44k) Expenses 100 ($42k) Net assets 100 ($22k)2018 Revenue 90 ($39k) Expenses 110 ($46k) Net assets 68 ($15k)2019 Revenue 103 ($45k) Expenses 130 ($55k) Net assets 23 ($5k)2020 Revenue 115 ($51k) Expenses 128 ($54k) Net assets 2 ($488)2021 Revenue 142 ($63k) Expenses 154 ($65k) Net assets -7 ($-1578)2022 Revenue 300 ($132k) Expenses 235 ($99k) Net assets 145 ($31k)2023 Revenue 318 ($140k) Expenses 349 ($147k) Net assets 113 ($24k)2024 Revenue 555 ($244k) Expenses 461 ($194k) Net assets 343 ($74k)2025 Revenue 626 ($275k) Expenses 755 ($318k) Net assets 147 ($32k)
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Revenue (626)Expenses (755)Net assets (147)Peer revenue range

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 $31k to $76k (+146%).

$22k
$15k
$8k
$6k
$4k
$32k
$31k
$76k
$32k
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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
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

89% of CRYSTAL LAKE TEEN CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (83% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 6,387 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$2k
’17
−$7k
’18
−$10k
’19
−$3k
’20
−$2k
’21
$33k
’22
−$7k
’23
$50k
’24
−$43k
’25
1.2
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.

20242025
Listed1212
Joined·+0
No longer listed·0
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $5k → $45k.

4 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 58% 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 TEEN CENTER’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 TEEN CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

76% 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 TEEN CENTER.

55%
largest funder
88%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 99% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 58% · 2022 51% · 2023 46% — 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

50% of CRYSTAL LAKE TEEN CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

58% of CRYSTAL LAKE TEEN CENTER'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 $132k that is directly attributable, 57% of it comes from Illinois funders.

IL
WI
MI
CA

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

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’22
’23
Illinois out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $183k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

CRYSTAL LAKE TEEN CENTER has grown faster than three-quarters of the 3,482 youth development nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−15% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve1.2mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)26% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,482 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like CRYSTAL LAKE TEEN CENTER

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In Illinois

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

71% of spending goes to programs.

Program 71%Management 20%Fundraising 9%

Governance

12
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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

IL

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Questions and answers

Who funds CRYSTAL LAKE TEEN CENTER?
CRYSTAL LAKE TEEN CENTER (Illinois) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $315,915 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MCHENRY COUNTY ($172,500). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does CRYSTAL LAKE TEEN CENTER have?
IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $315,915 in grants to CRYSTAL LAKE TEEN CENTER, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CRYSTAL LAKE TEEN CENTER?
THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MCHENRY COUNTY is the largest funder on record, with $172,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CRYSTAL LAKE TEEN CENTER 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 10 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