Illinois · Nonprofit
HEPHZIBAH CHILDREN'S ASSOCIATION
HEPHZIBAH CHILDREN'S ASSOCIATION (Illinois) receives grants from 80 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,645,502 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,038,708). 49 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $14M
- Funders on record
- 80
- Grants received
- $7.6M
- Net assets
- $15M
What Hephzibah Children's Association does
Mission
A child welfare agency providing group home care, foster care, and daycare services to help children thrive and families flourish through innovative, community based programs.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Hephzibah home serves some of the youngest victims of severe abuse, neglect and trauma and children in need of behavioral intervention, ages 3-11 in illinois. At hephzibah home we offer children a safe haven, and a place for them to stabilize and heal so that they may eventually return to a home environment. Hephzibah home offers each child an individual treatment plan based on their specific needs. Our clinical team provides comprehensive therapeutic support to help children heal from trauma and develop healthy behaviors and life skills, and our education team supports the academic needs of the children. The support for the children comes in the form of therapies such as art and pet therapy, music and movement therapy and sensory modulation treatment. Our team helps children meet their goals and develop the vital skills they need to move to foster or permanent places. In fy25, 31 children were served in the hephzibah home.
$3,871,795 spentof which $36,288 as grants$3,676,634 earned by the program35% of program spendingFoster care - children in foster care need love and support in order to heal. Hephzibah offers a full spectrum of foster care services for children in need of loving homes. We help children heal and prepapre them for the next step in their foster journey, whether it is returning to biological family members, or into an adoptive home. Hephzibah also recruits, trains, and supports foster parents who open their homes to children in need. We surround our foster parents with the training and support they need to maintain a healthy, loving and caring relationship and home for all. This support includes parenting groups, in-home consultation, foster parent support groups, training sessions, private consultations, and the hephzibah foster parent advisory board. In fy25, 114 children were served in the foster care program.
$2,988,343 spentof which $791,256 as grants$5,060,954 earned by the program27% of program spendingDay care - hephzibah's after school program served more than 800 children from diverse socioeconomic backgrounds fulfilling a critical need in the oak park community for affordable, nurturing, and enriching after-school care for elementary school-aged children. We offer a dynamic childcare experience for children in grades k-5 after school and full-day care on school holidays at each of the eight district 97 elementary schools in oak park. We also offer full-day summer day camp monday-friday in oak park for children of working parents. This program is unique we offer a sliding-fee pay scale, based on income level. Our childcare activities are designed to help children achieve their full social, emotional, and intellectual potential by fostering the development of a wide variety of skills, as well as social competence and a positive self-image.
$2,252,296 spentof which $36,322 as grants$2,640,512 earned by the program20% of program spendingSibling camphephzibah coordinates an annual sibling camp for youth in our program, ages six years and older, that are separated in care from their siblings. This is a three-night, four-day camp that takes placed at camp whitcomb mason in hartland, wisconsin. Sibling camp is important in creating a sense of connection and continuity between siblings, helping to build positive childhood memories, and encouraging confidence and self-esteem. Most importantly, sibling camp allows the children to just be kids, unencumbered by their past and have a wonderful time participating in activities that all children should have a chance to experience. Through sibling connections made and strengthened at the camp and at other times throughout the year, the youth maintain valuable links to their family, which is so important in bringing hope and happiness to the children.intact family servicesthe intact family services program is designed to make "reasonable efforts" to stabilize, strengthen, enhance, and preserve family life by providing services that enable children to remain safely at home. This program assists families to meet minimum parenting standards through professional assessment of the…
$1,939,600 spentof which $106,676 as grants18% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $11,052,034.
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.
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 $12M to $15M (+22%).
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 66% · 2018 69% · 2019 66% · 2020 68% · 2021 69% · 2022 70% · 2023 69% · 2024 69% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
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
Jason Patenaude
Chief executive officer
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 40 funders, grant income rose $306k → $1.1M.
16 of 80 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 45% 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: $542k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Hephzibah Children's Trust). These are real filings, and they are not money HEPHZIBAH CHILDREN'S ASSOCIATION raised.
From the IRS filings of HEPHZIBAH CHILDREN'S ASSOCIATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 80 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
HEPHZIBAH CHILDREN'S ASSOCIATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% 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
52% 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 HEPHZIBAH CHILDREN'S ASSOCIATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 65% · 2018 48% · 2019 26% · 2020 58% · 2021 25% · 2022 18% · 2023 12% — 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
53% of HEPHZIBAH CHILDREN'S ASSOCIATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
90% of HEPHZIBAH CHILDREN'S ASSOCIATION's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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.
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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
81% 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
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Hephzibah Children's Trust · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds HEPHZIBAH CHILDREN'S ASSOCIATION?
- HEPHZIBAH CHILDREN'S ASSOCIATION (Illinois) receives grants from 80 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,645,502 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,038,708). 49 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HEPHZIBAH CHILDREN'S ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 80 organizations giving $7,645,502 in grants to HEPHZIBAH CHILDREN'S ASSOCIATION, 49 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HEPHZIBAH CHILDREN'S ASSOCIATION?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $2,038,708 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HEPHZIBAH CHILDREN'S ASSOCIATION 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 80 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