Illinois · Nonprofit
Lake County Veterans and Family Services
Lake County Veterans and Family Services (Illinois) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $747,478 to it, the largest being AbbVie Foundation ($289,201). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $66k
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $747k
- Net assets
- $0
What Lake County Veterans and Family Services does
Mission
Connect service members families with each other with the benefits resources they earned deserve through professionally trained Veteran Peer Specialists, free confidentially, regardless of discharge status
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The Drop-In Center is the home base of operations. The Drop-In Center provides a safe place for Veterans and their families to meet and receive help from other Veterans and from Peer Support Specialists. Social enrichment programs such as equine therapy, family outings, private fishing, art therapy, story telling, Black History month celebration MLK Day activities Highway Cleanup projects forest preserve cleanup Veterans History Project and four weekly Cup-A-Joes to promote Veteran social activities. All are offered to further support the quality of life for Veterans.
$4,632 spent21% of program spendingThe Vets in Need Program establishes a special financial assistance fund to provide discretionary financial assistance to any Veteran and/or current active duty Service Member and their families. Support provided includes food, shelter and other immediate necessities. Additionally in 2021, we started a Food Insecurity Program to distribute food, food cards, gas cards, pre-made meals, sundries, pizzas, cleaning products and cooking instruments to those service member families impacted by COVID pandemic. All support is distributed with our local partners who record every donation VA, DOD, IDVA, Veterans Closet, Catholic Charities, Kenosha VAC, and more.
$17,938 spentof which $15,986 as grants79% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $22,570.
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 2024 to 2025, from $408k to $0 (−100%).
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 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
82% of Lake County Veterans and Family Services’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (97% 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 8 funders, grant income rose $10k → $69k.
6 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% 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 Veterans and Family Services’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
Lake County Veterans and Family Services leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
43% 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 Veterans and Family Services.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 64% · 2019 73% · 2020 39% · 2021 37% · 2022 22% · 2023 36% — 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
60% of Lake County Veterans and Family Services's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% 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
77% of Lake County Veterans 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. $253k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
Lake County Veterans and Family Services's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 8 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,387 public benefit nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like Lake County Veterans 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
5% 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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Lake County Veterans 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 Lake County Veterans and Family Services?
- Lake County Veterans and Family Services (Illinois) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $747,478 to it, the largest being AbbVie Foundation ($289,201). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Lake County Veterans and Family Services have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $747,478 in grants to Lake County Veterans and Family Services, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Lake County Veterans and Family Services?
- AbbVie Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $289,201 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Lake County Veterans 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 16 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