Illinois · Nonprofit
Jewish Child and Family Services
Jewish Child and Family Services (Illinois) receives grants from 111 organizations whose IRS filings report $24,311,697 to it, the largest being JEWISH CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($12,694,332). 59 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $42M
- Funders on record
- 111
- Grants received
- $24M
- Net assets
- $71M
What Jewish Child and Family Services does
Mission
JCFS Chicago services and programs support wellbeing for children, teens, adults and families regardless of race, culture, religion, disability, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, or any other classification protected by law.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Emotional Wellbeing - JCFS masters and doctorate level clinicians offer therapy and case management services for children, teens, adults, couples and families in an emotionally safe setting where they can develop positive strategies and strengthen connections within their families and community. JCFS staff promote personal growth for individuals in response to a variety of issues, including anxiety, depression, illness and loss, mental health, family conflict, life transitions and more. In addition, we provide integrative counseling and psychological testing to understand learning differences, cognitive, emotional and other mental health disorders.Response for Teens supports young people, their families and systems of support by providing counseling, leadership development, and inclusive sexual health and healthy relationship education. Through community centered services, JCFS provides culturally sensitive education, and support that address issues impacting Jewish adults, children, couples, families, and the community, such as support groups, abuse prevention, addiction resources, adoption and infertility support, spiritual supports, chaplaincy services and community…
$10,586,311 spentof which $978,949 as grants$4,295,744 earned by the program33% of program spendingEmployment Services - JVS Career & Employment empowers and supports people of all ages who are unemployed and may be experiencing challenges with their job search. Individuals work with a career counselor to develop a plan focused on career exploration, resum building, interviewing skills, and creating a social media profile. Contracted Employment Services assist adults with disabilities and other barriers to employment obtain and maintain jobs in janitorial or administrative support services.
$7,265,760 spentof which $2,226,584 as grants$6,072,204 earned by the program22% of program spendingSpecial Education - The Knapp School & Yeshiva offers an adaptive learning environment for students (K-12+) with varying needs, such as emotional, behavioral, and learning challenges to those facing difficulties with attention, executive functioning, and impulse control. Collaboration between school staff, parents and mental health professionals allows for an individualized education. Our Yeshiva offers religiously observant children a therapeutic school program while also fulfilling the mitzvah of learning Torah and tefillah.
$7,113,547 spentof which $14,371 as grants$5,650,442 earned by the program22% of program spendingJCFS Chicago is committed to empowering children and adults with intellectual/ developmental disabilities (I/DD) and their families to maximize independence, increase self-determination, build a quality life and become integral members of their communities. Our Integrated Pediatric Therapies offer individualized services for infants and children with developmental delays and disabilities and their families, such as speech-language and occupational therapy.Services for people with disabilities and their families include social opportunities, inclusive community-based group living, home-based waiver for children and adults with I/DD, respite support, Sibshops, assistance and training for independent living, and educational and support groups covering a variety of topics.Duman Opportunity Center helps people with disabilities find and maintain meaningful employment through high-quality, customized services, such as job readiness training, placement assistance, retention strategies, and job coaching. For employers looking to build an inclusive workplace, we offer support and training to help businesses embrace disability inclusion in their hiring practices.
$6,319,451 spentof which $84,530 as grants$5,425,724 earned by the program19% of program spendingChild Welfare - Clinical Child Welfare Services provide intensive support to high-risk children in foster care to stabilize placements and prevent entry into higher levels of care. For families formed through adoption or subsidized guardianship whose children are experiencing emotional, education, medical or behavioral issues, our clinicians provide services in Spanish and English that include home-based individual and family therapy, grief counseling, crisis intervention and serve as a court, school or community advocates.
$1,287,541 spentof which $9,207 as grants$1,235,419 earned by the program4% of program spendingAll Other Programs
$0 spent$505,727 earned by the program0% of program spending
The 6 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $32,572,610.
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 2022 to 2023, from $60M to $81M (+35%).
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: 2022 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
37% of Jewish Child and Family Services’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Stacy L Shor
President/CEO
Board chair
Simon Fleischmann
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 25 funders to 37 funders, grant income rose $1.5M → $3.2M.
11 of 111 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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: $115M from 13 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago). These are real filings, and they are not money Jewish Child and Family Services raised.
From the IRS filings of Jewish Child and Family Services’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 111 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
Jewish Child and Family Services leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
75% 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 Jewish Child and Family Services.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 79% · 2018 83% · 2019 83% · 2020 42% · 2021 58% · 2022 42% · 2023 44% — 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
42% of Jewish Child and Family Services's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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
81% of Jewish Child and Family Services's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.0M 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
Jewish Child and Family Services holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,396 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,396 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding Jewish Child and Family Services receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $24.9M on record.
- Department of Transportation$8.8M
- Department of Veterans Affairs$5.6M
- Department of Defense$5.6M
- Environmental Protection Agency$4.8M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Jewish Child and Family Services
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
85% 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
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Jewish Child and Family Services Endowment Foundation · exempt
- North Shore Auxiliary of Jewish Child and Family Services · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Jewish Child and Family Services: 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 Jewish Child and Family Services?
- Jewish Child and Family Services (Illinois) receives grants from 111 organizations whose IRS filings report $24,311,697 to it, the largest being JEWISH CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($12,694,332). 59 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Jewish Child and Family Services have?
- IRS filings report 111 organizations giving $24,311,697 in grants to Jewish Child and Family Services, 59 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Jewish Child and Family Services?
- JEWISH CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $12,694,332 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Jewish Child and Family Services 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 111 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing