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Family Service Association of Greater Elgin Area

Family Service Association of Greater Elgin Area (Illinois) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $668,315 to it, the largest being Grand Victoria Foundation ($153,750). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$6.3M
Funders on record
10
Grants received
$668k
Net assets
$3.4M
8/10 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 8%
01What it does

What Family Service Association of Greater Elgin Area does

Mission

Family Service Association of Greater Elgin Area is dedicated to empowering individuals and families, promoting self sufficiency and building stronger communities through quality, accessible client centered services.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Therapy Services - Includes counseling and therapy, psychiatric services, case management services, school based services and community support services. 425 individuals received services throughout the year.

    $1,591,262 spent$1,391,705 earned by the program
    34% of program spending
  2. Crisis Care - This program includes 24/7/365 mobile crisis response to individuals in crisis, along with linkage and coordination to other needed services. The programs main focus is to ensure safety and to stabilize the individual in crisis, either in-person at the location of the crisis or virtually via phone or video. The program performed 1,539 crisis responses during the year.

    $1,197,649 spent$1,294,169 earned by the program
    26% of program spending
  3. Care Coordination and Support Organization - This program provides care coordination for youth with significant needs in multiple domains of life. The program provided services to 152 individuals during the year.

    $1,082,359 spent$1,212,619 earned by the program
    23% of program spending
  4. SASS Program - Services include Crisis Intervention, Linkage and Coordination of services to other community based mental health agencies for aftercare and outpatient treatment. The program provided services to nearly 1,500 children and performed 1,477 emergency assessments throughout the year.

    $773,790 spent$1,162,794 earned by the program
    17% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,645,060.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($3.0M) Expenses 100 ($2.9M) Net assets 100 ($2.3M)2021 Revenue 105 ($3.2M) Expenses 101 ($2.9M) Net assets 116 ($2.6M)2022 Revenue 115 ($3.5M) Expenses 120 ($3.5M) Net assets 112 ($2.5M)2023 Revenue 180 ($5.4M) Expenses 177 ($5.1M) Net assets 128 ($2.9M)2024 Revenue 181 ($5.5M) Expenses 189 ($5.4M) Net assets 130 ($2.9M)2025 Revenue 209 ($6.3M) Expenses 204 ($5.9M) Net assets 150 ($3.4M)
202020212022202320242025
Revenue (209)Expenses (204)Net assets (150)

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 $3.2M to $5.0M (+55%).

$3.1M
$3.0M
$3.2M
$5.0M
$5.1M
$5.3M
202020212022202320242025
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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 26% · 2021 27% · 2022 31% · 2023 43% · 2024 49% · 2025 34%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$149k
’20
$271k
’21
$24k
’22
$352k
’23
$50k
’24
$453k
’25
2.3
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

Janeth Barba

Chief Executive Officer

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.

202020212022202320242025
Listed131515141411
Joined·+4+0+5+0+1
No longer listed·20604
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $15k → $101k.

3 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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 Service Association of Greater Elgin Area’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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 Service Association of Greater Elgin Area has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% 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

49% 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 Service Association of Greater Elgin Area.

23%
largest funder
67%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 67% · 2019 76% · 2020 59% · 2021 29% · 2022 80% · 2023 51% — 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

50% of Family Service Association of Greater Elgin Area's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 80% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

91% of Family Service Association of Greater Elgin Area's grant income comes from Illinois funders.

IL
MD
AZ

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

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Illinois out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $107k 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like Family Service Association of Greater Elgin Area

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

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

86% of spending goes to programs.

Program 86%Management 13%Fundraising 1%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

100%

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 Family Service Association of Greater Elgin Area?
Family Service Association of Greater Elgin Area (Illinois) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $668,315 to it, the largest being Grand Victoria Foundation ($153,750). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Family Service Association of Greater Elgin Area have?
IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $668,315 in grants to Family Service Association of Greater Elgin Area, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Family Service Association of Greater Elgin Area?
Grand Victoria Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $153,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Family Service Association of Greater Elgin Area 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 10 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