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FRIENDSHIP HOUSE OF CRYSTAL LAKE

FRIENDSHIP HOUSE OF CRYSTAL LAKE (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $135,000 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($100,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$1.5M
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$135k
Net assets
$500k
0/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 9%
01What it does

What Friendship House of Crystal Lake does

Mission

Educational Day Care Services

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Educational Day Care Services

    $1,283,942 spent$1,269,361 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,283,942.

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($928k) Expenses 100 ($1.0M) Net assets 100 ($396k)2018 Revenue 125 ($1.2M) Expenses 101 ($1.0M) Net assets 138 ($548k)2019 Revenue 122 ($1.1M) Expenses 111 ($1.1M) Net assets 143 ($567k)2020 Revenue 112 ($1.0M) Expenses 99 ($998k) Net assets 154 ($609k)2021 Revenue 159 ($1.5M) Expenses 108 ($1.1M) Net assets 253 ($1.0M)2022 Revenue 127 ($1.2M) Expenses 123 ($1.2M) Net assets 239 ($945k)2023 Revenue 124 ($1.1M) Expenses 137 ($1.4M) Net assets 182 ($720k)2024 Revenue 141 ($1.3M) Expenses 149 ($1.5M) Net assets 135 ($534k)2025 Revenue 163 ($1.5M) Expenses 154 ($1.5M) Net assets 126 ($500k)
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Revenue (163)Expenses (154)Net assets (126)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $634k to $1.1M (+68%).

$427k
$568k
$593k
$634k
$1.1M
$1.1M
$1.4M
$1.1M
$928k
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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: 2021 34% · 2022 14% · 2023 16% · 2024 15% · 2025 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

11% of FRIENDSHIP HOUSE OF CRYSTAL LAKE’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 11,793 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$76k
’17
$152k
’18
$19k
’19
$42k
’20
$394k
’21
−$58k
’22
−$224k
’23
−$187k
’24
−$34k
’25
2.5
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.

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Listed887677777
Joined·+0+0+0+1+0+2+1+1
No longer listed·01100211
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2019: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $35k → $100k.

2 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 FRIENDSHIP HOUSE OF CRYSTAL LAKE’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

FRIENDSHIP HOUSE OF CRYSTAL LAKE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 74% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

100% 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 FRIENDSHIP HOUSE OF CRYSTAL LAKE.

74%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% — broadly stable.

“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.

Where its funders are

100% of FRIENDSHIP HOUSE OF CRYSTAL LAKE's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $135k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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

Against its field

FRIENDSHIP HOUSE OF CRYSTAL LAKE's revenue grew 63% between 2017 and 2025.

Operating margin−2% · below the median
Months of reserve2.5mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)6% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like FRIENDSHIP HOUSE OF CRYSTAL LAKE

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.

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

83% of spending goes to programs.

Program 83%Management 17%Fundraising 0%

Governance

7
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

IL

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FRIENDSHIP HOUSE OF CRYSTAL LAKE: 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 FRIENDSHIP HOUSE OF CRYSTAL LAKE?
FRIENDSHIP HOUSE OF CRYSTAL LAKE (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $135,000 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($100,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does FRIENDSHIP HOUSE OF CRYSTAL LAKE have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $135,000 in grants to FRIENDSHIP HOUSE OF CRYSTAL LAKE.
Who is the largest funder of FRIENDSHIP HOUSE OF CRYSTAL LAKE?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FRIENDSHIP HOUSE OF CRYSTAL LAKE 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 2 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