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Lake County Youth Hockey Association

Lake County Youth Hockey Association (Illinois) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,527 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($6,195). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 96% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$1.7M
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$7k
Net assets
$206k
1/3 repeat funders
01What it does

What Lake County Youth Hockey Association does

Mission

Vipers hockey is dedicated to the athletic development, personal growth,and sportsmanship of youth hockey players within northern lake county,illinois and southwestern wisconsin.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Supported youth hockey league participation and skill development bysecuring ice time, providing equipment and coaching staff, tournamnet andleague entry, and supplying referees

    $1,900,683 spent$1,674,618 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,900,683.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($41k) Expenses 100 ($112k) Net assets 100 ($115k)2018 Revenue 440 ($181k) Expenses 141 ($158k) Net assets 120 ($138k)2019 Revenue 727 ($299k) Expenses 334 ($374k) Net assets 55 ($64k)2021 Revenue 627 ($258k) Expenses 326 ($364k) Net assets -14 ($-16251)2024 Revenue 4228 ($1.7M) Expenses 1408 ($1.6M) Net assets 350 ($403k)2025 Revenue 4157 ($1.7M) Expenses 1707 ($1.9M) Net assets 179 ($206k)
201720182019202120242025
Revenue (4157)Expenses (1707)Net assets (179)Peer revenue range

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 $406k to $206k (−49%).

$115k
$138k
$64k
$62k
$406k
$206k
201720182019202120242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2021
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

0% of Lake County Youth Hockey Association’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (13% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,898 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

−$71k
’17
$23k
’18
−$74k
’19
−$106k
’21
$167k
’24
−$197k
’25
1.2
months of
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.

20182019202120242025
Listed66966
Joined·+1··+0
No longer listed·1··0
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $12 → $320.

2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 96% 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 Youth Hockey Association’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 Youth Hockey Association leans on a few funders — its largest provides 95% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

96% 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 Youth Hockey Association.

95%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 81% — 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.

Where its funders are

96% of Lake County Youth Hockey Association'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 $259 that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Illinois, across 1 state.

WI

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Lake County Youth Hockey Association has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,767 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−12% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve1.2mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)59% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,767 recreation & sports nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

6
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

IL

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Lake County Youth Hockey Association: 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 Youth Hockey Association?
Lake County Youth Hockey Association (Illinois) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,527 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($6,195). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 96% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Lake County Youth Hockey Association have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $6,527 in grants to Lake County Youth Hockey Association, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Lake County Youth Hockey Association?
AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $6,195 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Lake County Youth Hockey Association 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 3 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