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ECKER CENTER FOR BEHAVIORAL HEALTH INC

ECKER CENTER FOR BEHAVIORAL HEALTH INC (Illinois) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,576,440 to it, the largest being Public Health Institute of Metropolitan Chicago ($338,085). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$16M
Funders on record
23
Grants received
$1.6M
Net assets
$7.8M
14/23 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 5%
01What it does

What Ecker Center for Behavioral Health Inc does

Mission

The ecker center offers various psychiatric services for adults and children, primarily in kane and western cook counties. The center provides quality mental health services that are courteous, accessible and responsive to community needs.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

On its FY2024 return the organization reported starting a significant new program and a significant change in how it conducts a program.

On 10/1/24, the ecker center started as a ccbhc, added an act program, and supported employment.

Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).

Hospital contracts with good shepard and st. Joseph's ended.

Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).

  1. Crisis care system

    $1,473,351 spent
    14% of program spending

  2. Ccbhc

    $1,077,001 spentof which $5,615 as grants
    10% of program spending

  3. Elgin therapy - individual, group and family therapy services designed for children, adolescents and adults are provided for those experiencing depression, anxiety, phobias, suicidal thoughts and other psychiatric problems.

    $799,183 spent
    8% of program spending

  4. Supported residential

    $761,708 spentof which $91 as grants
    7% of program spending

  5. Psychiatrist services

    $665,957 spent
    6% of program spending

  6. Intake

    $645,242 spent
    6% of program spending

  7. Crisis residential

    $545,242 spentof which $91 as grants
    5% of program spending

  8. Supervised residential

    $483,455 spentof which $91 as grants
    5% of program spending

  9. Cmhc

    $443,671 spentof which $54 as grants
    4% of program spending

  10. Elgin out patient

    $426,809 spent
    4% of program spending

  11. Atod

    $415,112 spent
    4% of program spending

  12. Community support - cst

    $391,373 spent
    4% of program spending

  13. Housing is recovery

    $332,132 spentof which $33,019 as grants
    3% of program spending

  14. Psycho-social rehabilitation

    $266,027 spent
    3% of program spending

  15. Nursing

    $265,510 spentof which $2,328 as grants
    3% of program spending

  16. Case management

    $265,319 spentof which $826 as grants
    3% of program spending

  17. Hud leasing

    $242,761 spent
    2% of program spending

  18. St joseph hospital

    $228,736 spent
    2% of program spending

  19. Unfit to stand trial

    $139,664 spentof which $600 as grants
    1% of program spending

  20. Supported employment

    $134,567 spent
    1% of program spending

  21. Hanover landing

    $105,542 spent
    1% of program spending

  22. Cshe

    $90,709 spent
    1% of program spending

  23. Juvenile justice

    $89,987 spent
    1% of program spending

  24. Hud leasing

    $76,528 spent
    1% of program spending

  25. St. Charles therapy

    $67,667 spent
    1% of program spending

  26. Housing mi supportive

    $67,021 spent
    1% of program spending

  27. Treatment alternative court

    $46,536 spent
    0% of program spending

  28. Gambling

    $16,715 spent
    0% of program spending

  29. Access to justice

    $16,617 spent
    0% of program spending

  30. Hermanos

    $5,944 spent
    0% of program spending

  31. Hud abbott

    $1,374 spent
    0% of program spending

The 31 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $10,587,460.

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($5.1M) Expenses 100 ($4.9M) Net assets 100 ($3.0M)2018 Revenue 101 ($5.2M) Expenses 111 ($5.4M) Net assets 92 ($2.8M)2019 Revenue 110 ($5.6M) Expenses 118 ($5.8M) Net assets 88 ($2.6M)2020 Revenue 119 ($6.1M) Expenses 127 ($6.2M) Net assets 84 ($2.5M)2021 Revenue 150 ($7.7M) Expenses 176 ($8.7M) Net assets 98 ($2.9M)2022 Revenue 195 ($10M) Expenses 187 ($9.2M) Net assets 128 ($3.8M)2023 Revenue 217 ($11M) Expenses 219 ($11M) Net assets 145 ($4.3M)2024 Revenue 240 ($12M) Expenses 241 ($12M) Net assets 166 ($4.9M)2025 Revenue 307 ($16M) Expenses 266 ($13M) Net assets 262 ($7.8M)
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
Revenue (307)Expenses (266)Net assets (262)

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 $5.9M to $9.2M (+54%).

$4.0M
$3.9M
$3.6M
$4.5M
$5.7M
$5.1M
$4.8M
$5.9M
$9.2M
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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

Government-grant reliance: 2017 46% · 2018 44% · 2019 40% · 2020 40% · 2021 44% · 2022 56% · 2023 54% · 2024 47% · 2025 38%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$232k
’17
−$263k
’18
−$169k
’19
−$151k
’20
−$923k
’21
$838k
’22
$429k
’23
$507k
’24
$2.8M
’25
3.7
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.

Chief executive

Daphne Sandouka

CEO

Board chair

Meghan Early

Chairperson

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.

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Listed131415161715171516
Joined·+2+4+3+1+1+2+0+3
No longer listed·13203022
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $107k → $125k.

Funder
'17
'18
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
'25*
total
United Way of Elgin Incunclassified
$53k
Fox Valley United Wayunclassified
$20k
funders
6
5
4
9
12
11
8
12
5

6 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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 ECKER CENTER FOR BEHAVIORAL HEALTH INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 22 of 23 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

ECKER CENTER FOR BEHAVIORAL HEALTH INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

63% 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 ECKER CENTER FOR BEHAVIORAL HEALTH INC.

21%
largest funder
57%
top three
~8
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 31% · 2018 61% · 2019 42% · 2020 49% · 2021 49% · 2022 62% · 2023 44% — growing more concentrated.

“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

62% of ECKER CENTER FOR BEHAVIORAL HEALTH INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

86% of ECKER CENTER FOR BEHAVIORAL HEALTH INC's grant income comes from Illinois funders.

IL
WI
MA
AZ
TX

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

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Illinois out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $115k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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

Government funding ECKER CENTER FOR BEHAVIORAL HEALTH INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10.7M on record.

Federal$10.7M
grants $10.7Mcontracts $0
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18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
Top agencies
  • Department of Health and Human Services$5.6M
  • Department of Housing and Urban Development$5.1M

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like ECKER CENTER FOR BEHAVIORAL HEALTH INC

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

Family Service & Mental Health Center of Cicero84%Turning Point Behavioral Health Care Center82%Heritage Behavioral Health Center81%McLean County Center for Human Services Inc81%Community Crisis Center Inc81%Beloved Community Family Wellness Center80%The Josselyn Center Nfp80%Jane Addams Inc80%

Nationally

The Edinburg Center Inc85%Family Service & Mental Health Center of Cicero84%The Cabin Counseling & Resource Center Inc83%Elmcrest Children's Center Inc83%Mid-Erie Mental Health Services Inc83%Metropolitan Center for Mental Health Inc83%Eger Health Care and Rehabilitation Center83%High Plains Mental Health Center83%
05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

81% of spending goes to programs.

Program 81%Management 17%Fundraising 1%

Governance

11
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

97%

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 ECKER CENTER FOR BEHAVIORAL HEALTH INC?
ECKER CENTER FOR BEHAVIORAL HEALTH INC (Illinois) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,576,440 to it, the largest being Public Health Institute of Metropolitan Chicago ($338,085). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ECKER CENTER FOR BEHAVIORAL HEALTH INC have?
IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $1,576,440 in grants to ECKER CENTER FOR BEHAVIORAL HEALTH INC, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ECKER CENTER FOR BEHAVIORAL HEALTH INC?
Public Health Institute of Metropolitan Chicago is the largest funder on record, with $338,085 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ECKER CENTER FOR BEHAVIORAL HEALTH INC 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 23 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