Illinois · Nonprofit
LAKE COUNTY CRISIS CENTER
LAKE COUNTY CRISIS CENTER (Illinois) receives grants from 136 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,303,262 to it, the largest being ILLINOIS COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ($3,658,199). 89 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $13M
- Funders on record
- 136
- Grants received
- $10M
- Net assets
- $6.3M
What Lake County Crisis Center does
Mission
A safe place is the leading advocate for eliminating domestic violence & human trafficking in northern illinois.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Shelter & crisis advocacy - we provided 34,829 nights of emergency shelter to 346 adults and 304 children. This included domestic violence survivors who stayed at the shelter facility as well as survivors and their children who received nights of shelter at local hotels. Hotel shelter is provided when there is no room at the agency's 33-bed emergency shelter. In addition, with the onset of the covid pandemic in march 2020, all emergency shelter clients were housed at hotels. While housed in the shelter program, survivors and their children received counseling and advocacy services as well as food, clothing, and other basic needs. A safe place also operates a 24-hour crisis line out of the emergency shelter, also providing immediate in-person crisis counseling for those in immediate danger. Support is available 24/7, day or night, for survivors in crisis or for concerned friends and family members seeking information about domestic violence and our services. Throughout the year, we assisted 2,126 callers through our crisis line with supportive/caring listening, counseling, information, referrals, and advice. Program service accomplishments: immediate support for individuals facing…
$2,368,390 spentof which $2,146,348 as grants27% of program spendingSupportive housing & transitional living - a safe place provides both transitional/scattered site and permanent supportive housing to tenants/survivors of domestic violence and their children. For fy24, we provided (1) 92,892 nights of affordable, safe housing in permanent supportive housing apartments to 135 adults and 172 children; along with affordable housing, the tenants received 7,306.25 hours of supportive services including advocacy, life skills training, and counseling.
$2,641,327 spent$210,670 earned by the program30% of program spendingCounseling & therapy - therapists, counselors and advocates provided 24,302 hours of case management, advocacy, counseling/therapy, art therapy, and life skills training services to 777 adult survivors and 423 child witnesses. These services were provided in english and spanish in both group and individual settings. Specialized art therapy is also provided to children and families. Survivors served included those residing in our supportive housing programs
$1,044,279 spent12% of program spendingA safe place is the sole provider of services exclusively addressing domestic violence and human trafficking in lake county, illinois. Guided by the mission of being the leading advocate for eliminating domestic violence and human trafficking in northern illinois, a safe place offers comprehensive services that provide a safety net to assist victims of domestic violence, human trafficking and their children. Services are designed to meet the immediate crisis and longterm needs of victims of violence and their children, to prevent future violence, and to help survivors achieve selfsufficiency. The continuum of services provided for victims of violence includes: a 24-hour crisis line, a 24 hour on-call crisis response services with law enforcement, case management, a 24-hour emergency shelter, 58 transitional housing units, 37 permanent supportive housing units, family, individual and group counseling, therapy and art therapy, a legal advocacy programthat provides assistance with orders of protection, safe custody exchanges, and supervised child visitations, life skills, employment,financial literacy and budgeting, advocacy, education, outreach ,supportive services, safe youth…
$2,744,109 spent$369,704 earned by the program31% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $8,798,105.
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 2024 to 2025, from $7.9M to $9.9M (+26%).
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 43% · 2018 52% · 2019 59% · 2020 59% · 2021 70% · 2022 71% · 2023 73% · 2024 76% · 2025 64%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Pat Davenport
Chief executive officer
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 33 funders to 58 funders, grant income rose $440k → $1.6M.
18 of 136 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 27% 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 LAKE COUNTY CRISIS CENTER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 136 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
LAKE COUNTY CRISIS CENTER has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 36% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
71% 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 LAKE COUNTY CRISIS CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 28% · 2018 59% · 2019 62% · 2020 43% · 2021 44% · 2022 8% · 2023 38% — 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
53% of LAKE COUNTY CRISIS CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
95% of LAKE COUNTY CRISIS CENTER's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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.
Government funding LAKE COUNTY CRISIS CENTER receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.9M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$2.3M
- Department of Justice$1.5M
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 LAKE COUNTY CRISIS CENTER
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
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
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 3 related entities
- A Safe Place II Development Gp LLC · disregarded
- A Safe Place II LP · partnership
- A Safe Place II Development Corp · corp_trust
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Questions and answers
- Who funds LAKE COUNTY CRISIS CENTER?
- LAKE COUNTY CRISIS CENTER (Illinois) receives grants from 136 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,303,262 to it, the largest being ILLINOIS COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ($3,658,199). 89 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LAKE COUNTY CRISIS CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 136 organizations giving $10,303,262 in grants to LAKE COUNTY CRISIS CENTER, 89 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LAKE COUNTY CRISIS CENTER?
- ILLINOIS COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE is the largest funder on record, with $3,658,199 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LAKE COUNTY CRISIS CENTER 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 136 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