Illinois · Nonprofit
CTF ILLINOIS
CTF ILLINOIS (Illinois) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,251,545 to it, the largest being THE HOPE SCHOOL ($522,675). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $32M
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $1.3M
- Net assets
- $18M
What Ctf Illinois does
Mission
To operate residential and programmatic facilities for individuals with developmental and intellectual disabilities, as well as provide services to adults with mental illnesses in the state of illinois.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Provide community integrated living arrangements (cilas) for individuals with developmental and intellectual disabilities in the state of illinois.
$17,385,189 spent$21,938,917 earned by the program65% of program spendingProvide day training services to individuals with developmental and intellectual disabilities at locations in the state of illinois.
$9,261,510 spent$8,176,614 earned by the program34% of program spendingProvide psychosocial rehabilitation consulting & counseling to adults with chronic mental illness.
$243,408 spent$631,077 earned by the program1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $26,890,107.
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 2024 to 2025, from $20M to $33M (+65%).
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: 2017 1% · 2018 1% · 2019 3% · 2020 1% · 2021 26% · 2022 10% · 2023 1% · 2024 2% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
3% of CTF ILLINOIS’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (13% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 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
Mary Pat Ambrosino
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $54k → $260k.
3 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $2.6M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Community Services Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money CTF ILLINOIS raised.
From the IRS filings of CTF ILLINOIS’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
CTF ILLINOIS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
71% 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 CTF ILLINOIS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 47% · 2020 53% · 2021 49% · 2022 66% · 2023 47% — 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
100% of CTF ILLINOIS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
100% of CTF ILLINOIS's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $32k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
CTF ILLINOIS runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 449 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 449 housing & shelter nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like CTF ILLINOIS
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
92% 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
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Community Services Foundation · exempt
- Community Service Partners · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CTF ILLINOIS: 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 CTF ILLINOIS?
- CTF ILLINOIS (Illinois) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,251,545 to it, the largest being THE HOPE SCHOOL ($522,675). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CTF ILLINOIS have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $1,251,545 in grants to CTF ILLINOIS, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CTF ILLINOIS?
- THE HOPE SCHOOL is the largest funder on record, with $522,675 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CTF ILLINOIS 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 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