Illinois · Nonprofit
Inner City Impact
Inner City Impact (Illinois) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,993,713 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($565,306). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 34
- Grants received
- $2.0M
- Net assets
- $2.5M
What Inner City Impact does
Mission
Presenting the living Christ, primarily to unchurched inner city children and youth, discipling and integrating them into a local church. We serve all people regardless of religion, race, ethnicity, or gender.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Programs, Clubs, Outings, and Activities: We run after-school programs focused on providing alternatives for children and youth, while also teaching them the Word of God. A total of 516 different children attended our various clubs. At the clubs, children play games, do crafts, and learn about the Bible. Throughout the year, we also host special events. These include special days held in our building and outings to external events. We had 1,291 children attend the special events held in our building, where we informed them about how they could get involved in our programs. Additionally, we hosted monthly outings, with an average attendance of 25 children per event. Each activity is designed to spend meaningful time with children while providing a fun and engaging experience.
$951,022 spent$3,497 earned by the program80% of program spendingLeadership Development: The leadership development program is focused on helping develop Christian leaders from the communities where we minister. The program consists of small group Bible studies, leadership training, hiring interns, helping pay for college, and helping to provide funding for full-time staff from the community. This year, we had a total of 79 people that were a part of the leadership development program. We had an average of 33 kids per week in Bible study/discipleship relationship with staff, 6 kids in the beginning stages of the leadership training, 9 that work as interns, 4 students we are helping to pay for college, and 5 full-time staff members that were partially funded through this part of our ministry.
$133,372 spentof which $11,225 as grants11% of program spendingCamp: The camping ministry is designed to provide a focused time for children to hear about God's Word without the distractions of the city and to experience and enjoy God's creation. Camping trips range from daily getaways to week-long overnight trips to a seven-week day camp program. This year, we had 234 different children attend the day camp program with an average of 75 per day.
$90,506 spent$16,641 earned by the program8% of program spendingFood distribution: During fiscal 2025, the food distribution ministry served 2,091 individuals. This was done through food delivery to individual houses, club programs as well as mass distributions out of our Cicero location.
$18,004 spentof which $18,004 as grants2% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,192,904.
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 2018 to 2019, from $3.9M to $3.4M (−11%).
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: 2021 16% · 2022 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of Inner City Impact’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 8 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
William Bechtel
CEO/President
Board chair
Ken Bodel
Chairman of the Board
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 13 funders to 18 funders, grant income rose $209k → $343k.
9 of 34 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 56% 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 Inner City Impact’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 34 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
Inner City Impact has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% 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
62% 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 Inner City Impact.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 53% · 2018 45% · 2019 29% · 2020 27% · 2021 30% · 2022 46% · 2023 21% — 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
64% of Inner City Impact's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% 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
56% of Inner City Impact'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 $876k that is directly attributable, 85% of it comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
Inner City Impact's revenue fell 21% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,064 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Inner City Impact
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
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 10 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Chicago Gospel Mission · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Inner City Impact?
- Inner City Impact (Illinois) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,993,713 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($565,306). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Inner City Impact have?
- IRS filings report 34 organizations giving $1,993,713 in grants to Inner City Impact, 24 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Inner City Impact?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $565,306 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Inner City Impact 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 34 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