Illinois · Nonprofit
FAMILY MATTERS INC
FAMILY MATTERS INC (Illinois) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,329,196 to it, the largest being HAAG FAMILY FOUNDATION ($450,000). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 38
- Grants received
- $2.3M
- Net assets
- $1.2M
What Family Matters Inc does
Mission
Family matters partners with youth and families in northeast chicago to address and overcome structural racism and systemic oppression to build an equitable society. Our vision is to faciliate personal and collective justice utilizing the principles of leadership, strong relationships, meaningful communication, and safe environments for courageous social change.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The family matters school: the school is a specialty kindergarten-4th grade school for children who thrive outside of a traditional classroom. The school's personalized learning curriculum focuses on mastering core competencies in reading, stem, art, global cultures, and spanish while providing specialized support for children with sensory sensivities.
$362,706 spent$853 earned by the program41% of program spendingProject rise: teens ages 13-18 learn on-the-job employment skills, expand financial literacy, build a network of trusted adults, and set academic and employment goals. They strengthen leadership skills through a youth-led social justice project and participate in social-emotional learning (sel) and communication training.
$220,687 spent25% of program spendingPartners in learning: individually matched 1st-12th grade youth/adult pairs meet weekly for 90-minute, one-to-one tutor/mentoring sessions. Activities, provided via individualized lesson plans, focus on academic support, sel, goal setting, and college- and career-readliness.
$177,366 spent20% of program spendingCommunity engagement: family matters' community engagement initiative consists of multiple projects designed to build community cohesion and drive community trategic planning. They include north of howard together, the shared leadership collective, and the rogers park healty chicago equity zone work.respectful communities principles of leadership training: family matters' fundational tenets, the principles of leadership, promote positive thinking and language, thoughtful and considered decision-making, and peaceful conflict resolution. Training sessions are offered to members of the community multiple times each year.
$118,249 spent$242 earned by the program13% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $879,008.
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 $582k to $809k (+39%).
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 7% · 2018 11% · 2019 9% · 2020 42% · 2021 23% · 2022 11% · 2023 27% · 2024 22% · 2025 17%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of FAMILY MATTERS INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (61% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Kim Delong
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 17 funders, grant income rose $201k → $473k.
6 of 38 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 27% 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 MATTERS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 38 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 MATTERS INC 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
30% 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 MATTERS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 38% · 2019 39% · 2020 22% · 2021 30% · 2022 39% · 2023 32% — 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
45% of FAMILY MATTERS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
82% of FAMILY MATTERS INC's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $618k 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
FAMILY MATTERS INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,127 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,127 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like FAMILY MATTERS 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
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
85%
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
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FAMILY MATTERS INC: 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 FAMILY MATTERS INC?
- FAMILY MATTERS INC (Illinois) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,329,196 to it, the largest being HAAG FAMILY FOUNDATION ($450,000). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FAMILY MATTERS INC have?
- IRS filings report 38 organizations giving $2,329,196 in grants to FAMILY MATTERS INC, 21 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FAMILY MATTERS INC?
- HAAG FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $450,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FAMILY MATTERS 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 38 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