Illinois · Nonprofit
EVANGELICAL CHILD AND FAMILY AGENCY
EVANGELICAL CHILD AND FAMILY AGENCY (Illinois) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,031,035 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($195,026). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.0M
- Funders on record
- 23
- Grants received
- $1.0M
- Net assets
- $2.9M
What Evangelical Child and Family Agency does
Mission
Entity provides quality social services and compassionate care to abused, neglected, and dependent children, and improves the quality of life through adoption counseling, and intact family services.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Intact family services: 652 persons, representing 157 families received services during fy2025. Families experiencing founded incidents or abuse or neglect receive intensive services structured to correct the causes of abuse or neglect, while children remain in the home. These in-home services last up to 6 months in dupage county, illinois.
$1,234,836 spentof which $315,313 as grants$1,702,710 earned by the program58% of program spendingPregnancy support services: during fy2025, 316 women and families were served during their pregnancies. Care includes professional counseling, supplies for basic needs, housing assistance, referrals for medical care, etc. Services are provided free of charge during, and up to 6 months following pregnancy.
$427,380 spentof which $8,026 as grants20% of program spendingAdoption services: during fy2025, ecfa served 242 individuals and 94 families seeking to adopt. During the year, the agency saw placements of 14 children into these families. Children placed include those of both foreign and domestic origin.
$250,975 spentof which $4,120 as grants$200,714 earned by the program12% of program spendingFamily and individual counseling: during the current year, 60 persons came to ecfa and received over 597 sessions for a variety of personal needs.
$227,400 spent$7,632 earned by the program11% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,140,591.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2021 to 2022, from $2.5M to $2.7M (+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: 2021 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
35% of EVANGELICAL CHILD AND FAMILY AGENCY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 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
Wendy Payne
Executive director
Board chair
David Brown
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $119k → $159k.
6 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 41% 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: $424k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Ecfa Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money EVANGELICAL CHILD AND FAMILY AGENCY raised.
From the IRS filings of EVANGELICAL CHILD AND FAMILY AGENCY’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
EVANGELICAL CHILD AND FAMILY AGENCY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
61% 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 EVANGELICAL CHILD AND FAMILY AGENCY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 34% · 2018 38% · 2019 23% · 2020 16% · 2021 23% · 2022 23% · 2023 25% — 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
64% of EVANGELICAL CHILD AND FAMILY AGENCY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% 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
75% of EVANGELICAL CHILD AND FAMILY AGENCY's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $421k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
EVANGELICAL CHILD AND FAMILY AGENCY runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like EVANGELICAL CHILD AND FAMILY AGENCY
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
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Ecfa Foundation Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds EVANGELICAL CHILD AND FAMILY AGENCY?
- EVANGELICAL CHILD AND FAMILY AGENCY (Illinois) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,031,035 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($195,026). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does EVANGELICAL CHILD AND FAMILY AGENCY have?
- IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $1,031,035 in grants to EVANGELICAL CHILD AND FAMILY AGENCY, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EVANGELICAL CHILD AND FAMILY AGENCY?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $195,026 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EVANGELICAL CHILD AND FAMILY AGENCY 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 2021–2025), 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