Illinois · Nonprofit
CUNNINGHAM CHILDRENS HOME OF URBANA IL
CUNNINGHAM CHILDRENS HOME OF URBANA IL (Illinois) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,788,851 to it, the largest being BOARD OF CHILD CARE OF THE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH INC ($5,225,527). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $33M
- Funders on record
- 37
- Grants received
- $7.8M
- Net assets
- $48M
What Cunningham Childrens Home of Urbana Il does
Mission
To nourish hope through effective solutions so children thrive and families flourish.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Circle - urbana: circle academy is a non-public school program providing special education services to children ages 6 through 22. The program is regulated by section 14.702 of the school code. The school is operated by the home and serves primarily champaign county school districts. There is also a 1:1 component of the circle academy where children receive one on one attention from teacher aides. The program served an average of 50.29 students in fiscal year 2025 and 19.93 students in the one-on-one component.
$4,573,225 spent$4,176,424 earned by the program16% of program spendingCaminos: the caminos program provides safe, secure placement options for children who have recently migrated to the united states and are seeking opportunities for reunification with family as well as the chance to pursue their legal immigration case. This program is operated through a relationship with two entities: everstand and the federal office of refugee resettlement (orr).orr is a division of the u.s. Department of health and human services and has responsibility for the care and placement of unaccompanied children who are taken into custody by border patrol officials. This program served appoximately 127 clients in fiscal year 2025.
$4,263,526 spent$4,765,291 earned by the program15% of program spendingCircle - vermilion: circle vermilion academy is a non-public school program providing special education services to children ages 6 through 18. The program is regulated by section 14.702 of the school code. The school is operated by the home and serves primarily vermilion county school districts. There is also a 1:1 component of the circle vermilion academy where children receive one on one attention from teacher aides. The program served an average of 52.43 students in fiscal year 2025 and 18.56 students in the one-on-one component.
$4,074,115 spent$4,778,556 earned by the program14% of program spendingThe home operates the following programs that are primarily funded through contracts with the state of illinois:qualified residential treatment program (qrtp): the qrtp is a residential treatment program which provides assessment and treatment services for youth, ages 9 to 18, during their residential stay at home's main campus. Averages of 23.28 (unaudited) youth were served in this program in fiscal year 2025.cedars youth shelter: the cedars youth shelter is a diagnostic and adolescent care shelter located on the home's main campus. The shelter serves youth, ages 12-16 years old who are youth in care with the illinois department of children and family services (dcfs). The shelter serves youth who are experiencing sudden displacement from their homes due to abuse, neglect or some other unsafe living situation. The program also works to ensure services are in place to provide continuity of care upon discharge from the shelter. The program served an average of 9.83 (unaudited) youth in fiscal year 2025.community group home: the community group home program provides assessment and treatment services for up to 8 girls and 8 boys, ages 15 to 19, who reside in two separate group homes,…
$15,643,192 spent$9,606,461 earned by the program55% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $28,554,058.
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 2020 to 2021, from $52M to $57M (+10%).
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 0% · 2018 2% · 2019 1% · 2020 2% · 2021 11% · 2022 24% · 2023 19% · 2024 21% · 2025 20%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
27% of CUNNINGHAM CHILDRENS HOME OF URBANA IL’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
Marlin Livingston
President/CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 20 funders, grant income rose $296k → $445k.
10 of 37 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 CUNNINGHAM CHILDRENS HOME OF URBANA IL’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 37 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
CUNNINGHAM CHILDRENS HOME OF URBANA IL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 67% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
91% 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 CUNNINGHAM CHILDRENS HOME OF URBANA IL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 63% · 2018 59% · 2019 60% · 2020 50% · 2021 36% · 2022 24% · 2023 34% — 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
63% of CUNNINGHAM CHILDRENS HOME OF URBANA IL'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
CUNNINGHAM CHILDRENS HOME OF URBANA IL draws 78% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 10 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $809k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
CUNNINGHAM CHILDRENS HOME OF URBANA IL has grown faster than half of the 2,297 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,297 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like CUNNINGHAM CHILDRENS HOME OF URBANA IL
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
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CUNNINGHAM CHILDRENS HOME OF URBANA IL?
- CUNNINGHAM CHILDRENS HOME OF URBANA IL (Illinois) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,788,851 to it, the largest being BOARD OF CHILD CARE OF THE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH INC ($5,225,527). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CUNNINGHAM CHILDRENS HOME OF URBANA IL have?
- IRS filings report 37 organizations giving $7,788,851 in grants to CUNNINGHAM CHILDRENS HOME OF URBANA IL, 23 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CUNNINGHAM CHILDRENS HOME OF URBANA IL?
- BOARD OF CHILD CARE OF THE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH INC is the largest funder on record, with $5,225,527 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CUNNINGHAM CHILDRENS HOME OF URBANA IL 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 37 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