Illinois · Nonprofit
FAMILY COUNSELING SERVICE OF AURORA
FAMILY COUNSELING SERVICE OF AURORA (Illinois) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,927,015 to it, the largest being INC MENTAL HEALTH ALLIANCE ($2,575,706). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.4M
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $2.9M
- Net assets
- $2.6M
What Family Counseling Service of Aurora does
Mission
To strengthen families, communities and the organizations that serve them by providing quality personal and professional services that develop and promote the skills necessary to encourage growth and success.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
West aurora took over the impact program starting in january of 2025.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
Behavior health care: utilizing a combination of mental health counseling, psychiatry, and substance abuse treatment services, fcs helps children, adolescents, adults, and seniors manage mental health conditions, personal and family conflicts, addictive behaviors, and other psychosocial problems. Clients learn the skills they need to be successful in life with meaningful, effective relationships despite their past and current behavioral health conditions.
$5,637,491 spent$4,706,541 earned by the program89% of program spendingImpact restorative practices: this program was fully funded through a partnership with west aurora school district 129. Program termed 12/31/24.
$569,398 spent$605,310 earned by the program9% of program spendingViolence intervention services: vis provides group and individual counseling and education to men and women who have committed acts of domestic violence in their relationships. Certified by the state of il as a partner abuse intervention program, vis serves approximately 800 individuals per year.
$94,982 spent$266,356 earned by the program2% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,301,871.
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 2022 to 2023, from $2.2M to $4.2M (+88%).
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 5% · 2018 5% · 2019 5% · 2020 1% · 2021 10% · 2022 1% · 2023 3% · 2024 2% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
11% of FAMILY COUNSELING SERVICE OF AURORA’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Eric Ward
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 6 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $275k → $473k.
4 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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 FAMILY COUNSELING SERVICE OF AURORA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 8 of 9 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
FAMILY COUNSELING SERVICE OF AURORA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 88% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% 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 FAMILY COUNSELING SERVICE OF AURORA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 90% · 2018 88% · 2019 91% · 2020 89% · 2021 95% · 2022 96% · 2023 59% — 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
38% of FAMILY COUNSELING SERVICE OF AURORA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 78% 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
99% of FAMILY COUNSELING SERVICE OF AURORA's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $150k 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
FAMILY COUNSELING SERVICE OF AURORA has grown faster 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 FAMILY COUNSELING SERVICE OF AURORA
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
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FAMILY COUNSELING SERVICE OF AURORA?
- FAMILY COUNSELING SERVICE OF AURORA (Illinois) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,927,015 to it, the largest being INC MENTAL HEALTH ALLIANCE ($2,575,706). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FAMILY COUNSELING SERVICE OF AURORA have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $2,927,015 in grants to FAMILY COUNSELING SERVICE OF AURORA, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FAMILY COUNSELING SERVICE OF AURORA?
- INC MENTAL HEALTH ALLIANCE is the largest funder on record, with $2,575,706 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FAMILY COUNSELING SERVICE OF AURORA 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 9 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