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ILLINOIS NETWORK OF CHILD CARE RESOURCE AND REFERRAL AGENCIES
ILLINOIS NETWORK OF CHILD CARE RESOURCE AND REFERRAL AGENCIES (Illinois) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,737,739 to it, the largest being ROBERT R MCCORMICK FOUNDATION ($990,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 86% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $196M
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $1.7M
- Net assets
- $2.5M
What Illinois Network of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies does
Mission
To promote and facilitate high quality early care and education for children, families, child care providers, employers & communities in illinois
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Smart start transition grants:smart start transition grants provide stable, predictable funding to support high quality child care and invest in our critical child care workforce.
$159,090,827 spentof which $148,827,142 as grants82% of program spendingGateways to opportunity:gateways to opportunity is a comprehensive statewide program designed to meet the needs of childcare professionals in illinois by providing a network of resources in the areas of credentialing, career guidance, training, and professional development.
$15,804,973 spentof which $8,109,184 as grants8% of program spendingBirth to five illinois:birth to five illinois is a statewide regional infrastructure that works with the communities, amplifying their input in the development of illinois early childhood education & care policies and funding priorities.
$16,391,317 spent8% of program spendingIsbe gateway scholarships
$693,770 spentof which $631,883 as grants0% of program spendingCity of chicago scholarship
$1,874,946 spentof which $1,593,094 as grants1% of program spendingOther
$622,833 spent0% of program spending
The 6 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $194,478,666.
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 2021 to 2022, from $62M to $6.8M (−89%).
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 96% · 2018 95% · 2019 95% · 2020 88% · 2021 99% · 2022 99% · 2023 99% · 2024 99% · 2025 99%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of ILLINOIS NETWORK OF CHILD CARE RESOURCE AND REFERRAL AGENCIES’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (17% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Daniel Harris
Executive director
Board chair
Danette Connors
Board president
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $695k → $75k.
5 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 86% 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 NETWORK OF CHILD CARE RESOURCE AND REFERRAL 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 NETWORK OF CHILD CARE RESOURCE AND REFERRAL AGENCIES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
89% 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 NETWORK OF CHILD CARE RESOURCE AND REFERRAL AGENCIES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 50% · 2021 93% · 2022 100% · 2023 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.
How long its funders stay
50% of ILLINOIS NETWORK OF CHILD CARE RESOURCE AND REFERRAL AGENCIES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 33% 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
86% of ILLINOIS NETWORK OF CHILD CARE RESOURCE AND REFERRAL AGENCIES'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. Of the $240k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
ILLINOIS NETWORK OF CHILD CARE RESOURCE AND REFERRAL AGENCIES has grown faster than three-quarters of the 178 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 178 human services nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Organizations like ILLINOIS NETWORK OF CHILD CARE RESOURCE AND REFERRAL AGENCIES
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
99% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ILLINOIS NETWORK OF CHILD CARE RESOURCE AND REFERRAL AGENCIES?
- ILLINOIS NETWORK OF CHILD CARE RESOURCE AND REFERRAL AGENCIES (Illinois) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,737,739 to it, the largest being ROBERT R MCCORMICK FOUNDATION ($990,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 86% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ILLINOIS NETWORK OF CHILD CARE RESOURCE AND REFERRAL AGENCIES have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $1,737,739 in grants to ILLINOIS NETWORK OF CHILD CARE RESOURCE AND REFERRAL AGENCIES, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ILLINOIS NETWORK OF CHILD CARE RESOURCE AND REFERRAL AGENCIES?
- ROBERT R MCCORMICK FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $990,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ILLINOIS NETWORK OF CHILD CARE RESOURCE AND REFERRAL 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 12 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