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ILLINOIS ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCIES
ILLINOIS ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCIES (Illinois) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,141,228 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($550,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $8.6M
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $7.2M
What Illinois Association of Community Action Agencies does
Mission
The Illinois Association of Community Action Agencies (association) is a not-for-profit organization which serves as a network for illinois not-for-profit corporations and units of government which strive to raise the health, education, and economic standards of illinois' citizens living at the lower socio-economic margins. The association serves the collective interests of its members through representation, educational programs, information exchange, advocacy, and other support services.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Employment barrier reduction fund - iacaa was awarded a grant with the illinois department of human services to act as the lead grantee to assist individuals across the state of illinois seeking employment. This program addressed the barriers to employment for income eligible clients. Working with 21 of the community action agencies, awards amount of $3,298,565 were provided to individuals for such items as rental assistance, auto repair, utility assistance, transportation, personal hygiene, training, professional clothing, and dental services. The program provided 2,892 services to participants in fiscal year 2025, who were all provided some form of assistance to help them seek employment. The maximum benefit provided per individual was $2,000.
$3,946,688 spentof which $3,793,350 as grants53% of program spendingRental housing support program - rental housing support program - the rhsp program provides subsidized rent payments for individuals with income under 30% of the average medium income (ami) living in rural areas. In 2025, an average of 97 households were assisted per quarter in the program through june of 2025. Iacaa sub-grants with six agencies through june of 2025; all are member community action agencies. Beginning in july, 2025 agencies contracted directly with illinois housing development authority. From july-december, iacaa assisted an average of 22 households with rental assistance directly. These funds are provided by a grant with the illinois housing development authority.
$350,395 spentof which $319,891 as grants5% of program spendingHousing bridge subsidy administrator - iacaa served just over 200 clients with monthly rental assistance during fiscal year 2025. This grant funding is provided by the illinois department of human services division of behavioral health and recovery. These programs provide rental subsidies to income-eligible individuals who've experienced serious mental health disorders, have been unhoused and institutionalized, but are able to live independently in their community with our assistance.
$2,318,684 spentof which $2,060,613 as grants31% of program spendingEnergy savings kits program - the energy savings kits program provides energy savings kits to households that demonstrate a need based upon their income levels. The kits strive to take the first step in making a customers home more energy efficient. In all cases, the applicant must provide proof of income levels, to verify eligibility for an energy savings kit. With the help of the caa's in the comed, nicor, north shore gas, and peoples gas, service territory, the program was able to provide 20,978 energy savings kits to eligible households during the 2025 calendar year.
$225,654 spentof which $208,740 as grants3% of program spendingIacaa training assistance - Illinois Association of Community Action Agencies (iacaa) was awarded a contract by the illinois department of commerce and economic opportunity (idceo) to provide training and technical assistance to the 35 community action agencies (caas) throughout illinois. Under this contract, iacaa facilitated webinars covering a broad range of topics, including storytelling, communication, media literacy, re-entry, leadership, and data utilization. In addition to the webinars, iacaa delivered in-person training sessions including a new executive director orientation, a community action plan/community needs assessment (cap/cna) workshop, an executive director workshop, and fiscal staff training. Iacaa also hosted its annual conference, which featured sessions on succession planning, communication skills, energy and weatherization topics, fiscal management, coaching and leadership, re-entry, and human resources. The contract continued to support comprehensive results oriented management and accountability (roma) activities. These efforts included two virtual and two in-person roma training sessions, as well as ongoing support for roma professional candidates across…
$663,535 spentof which $5,500 as grants$491,644 earned by the program9% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $7,504,956.
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 2023 to 2024, from $5.3M to $11M (+101%).
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 92% · 2018 71% · 2019 70% · 2020 78% · 2021 74% · 2022 83% · 2023 79% · 2024 75% · 2025 83%. 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
Roger Pavey
President and CEO
Board chair
Kevin Bushur
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018, and between the FY2018 and FY2019, and between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2020: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income rose $332k → $550k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 48% 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 ILLINOIS ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCIES’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
ILLINOIS ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCIES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders 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 ILLINOIS ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCIES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 89% · 2018 57% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
ILLINOIS ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCIES draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $550k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Organizations like ILLINOIS ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCIES
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In Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
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 ILLINOIS ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCIES?
- ILLINOIS ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCIES (Illinois) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,141,228 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($550,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ILLINOIS ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCIES have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $1,141,228 in grants to ILLINOIS ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCIES, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ILLINOIS ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCIES?
- The Chicago Community Trust is the largest funder on record, with $550,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ILLINOIS ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCIES 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.
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 4 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