Illinois · Nonprofit
JAMES B MORAN CENTER FOR YOUTH ADVOCACY
JAMES B MORAN CENTER FOR YOUTH ADVOCACY (Illinois) receives grants from 59 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,396,616 to it, the largest being ILLINOIS EQUAL JUSTICE FOUNDATION ($617,979). 43 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.9M
- Funders on record
- 59
- Grants received
- $4.4M
- Net assets
- $2.8M
What James B Moran Center for Youth Advocacy does
Mission
Provide integrated legal and social work services to low-income evanston youth to improve their quality of life at home, school and within the community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Legal service - to provide competent representation to indigent evanston residents.social services - to provide social work intervention and follow up to clients of the moran center.
$1,776,424 spent$44,780 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,776,424.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2024 to 2025, from $2.3M to $3.1M (+38%).
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 11% · 2023 48% · 2024 45%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of JAMES B MORAN CENTER FOR YOUTH ADVOCACY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (93% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 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
Patrick C Keenan-Devlin
Executive director
Board chair
David Soglin
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 29 funders, grant income rose $116k → $736k.
16 of 59 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 39% 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 JAMES B MORAN CENTER FOR YOUTH ADVOCACY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 59 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
JAMES B MORAN CENTER FOR YOUTH ADVOCACY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
70% 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 JAMES B MORAN CENTER FOR YOUTH ADVOCACY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 79% · 2018 22% · 2019 19% · 2020 21% · 2021 23% · 2022 19% · 2023 14% — 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 JAMES B MORAN CENTER FOR YOUTH ADVOCACY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 73% 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
94% of JAMES B MORAN CENTER FOR YOUTH ADVOCACY's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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
JAMES B MORAN CENTER FOR YOUTH ADVOCACY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 793 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 793 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like JAMES B MORAN CENTER FOR YOUTH ADVOCACY
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
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
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
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for JAMES B MORAN CENTER FOR YOUTH ADVOCACY: 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 JAMES B MORAN CENTER FOR YOUTH ADVOCACY?
- JAMES B MORAN CENTER FOR YOUTH ADVOCACY (Illinois) receives grants from 59 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,396,616 to it, the largest being ILLINOIS EQUAL JUSTICE FOUNDATION ($617,979). 43 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does JAMES B MORAN CENTER FOR YOUTH ADVOCACY have?
- IRS filings report 59 organizations giving $4,396,616 in grants to JAMES B MORAN CENTER FOR YOUTH ADVOCACY, 43 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of JAMES B MORAN CENTER FOR YOUTH ADVOCACY?
- ILLINOIS EQUAL JUSTICE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $617,979 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like JAMES B MORAN CENTER FOR YOUTH ADVOCACY 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 59 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