Illinois · Nonprofit
LUTHERAN CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES OF ILLINOIS
LUTHERAN CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES OF ILLINOIS (Illinois) receives grants from 45 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,539,096 to it, the largest being A&A DAY MEM TR 1020000980 ($633,308). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $45M
- Funders on record
- 45
- Grants received
- $3.5M
- Net assets
- $11M
What Lutheran Child and Family Services of Illinois does
Mission
Lutheran Child and Family Services of Illinois (agency) is a nonprofit statewide social service agency whose mission is to attract, develop, mobilize, and prvoide resources to improve the well-being of children, individuals, families, congregations, and communities so that their lives are improved.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Foster care - lcfs supervises the care of approximately 1,951 children whom the state of illinois has removed from their biological homes because of abuse or neglect. Lcfs identifies, trains, and licenses foster parents and provides ongoing training and home visits to ensure the well-being of each child in care. Family counseling - lcfs operates a wide range of programs throughout illinois that support and serve families and children so the family can remain together. Lcfs has counselors throughout illinois who can help with specialized care to individuals and families facing difficult situations. These programs help identify and use family strengths to enhance family functioning and improve parental and childcare performance. 428 individuals and families were supported through counseling services.
$32,307,053 spentof which $11,004,789 as grants$36,808,188 earned by the program82% of program spendingResidential - lcfs is committed to helping children and youth especially those who are at risk. Southern thirty adolescent center (stac) is the residential program for youth who need specialized help, providing services as a 30-day shelter and diagnostic program for adolescents aged 11-17. Stac provides emergency shelter care, clinical assessments, counseling and family intervention. Fy25 provided emergency shelter for 54 youth.
$2,178,492 spent$2,684,064 earned by the program6% of program spendingCamp wartburg is a children's summer camp and year-round retreat center owned and operated by lcfs. Its mission is to provide an outdoor christian ministry where people can encounter god and his creation. Fy25 camp was visited by 5,921 youth and individuals for retreats and outdoor education.
$2,050,919 spent$998,140 earned by the program5% of program spendingHome based services - lcfs provides a variety of home-based services to strengthen families and prevent child abuse and neglect, such as intact family recovery, housing advocacy, family prevention/reunification, teen pregnancy counseling, extended family support, and unified delinquency intervention services. In fy25, 274 families (760 family members) were served.adoption - lcfs assists families in adopting children domestically and internationally and provides care and counseling to pregnant women considering adoption for their children. Fy25 saw 56 adoptions to forever homes.best start for families trains parents, children, and facilitators to implement empathy-based interactions into their daily lives. In fy25, 787 individuals were strengthened through preventative services.
$2,686,327 spent$2,299,987 earned by the program7% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $39,222,791.
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 2022 to 2023, from $18M to $25M (+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: 2017 3% · 2018 6% · 2019 7% · 2020 6% · 2021 13% · 2022 8% · 2023 7%. 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
Michael Bertrand
President/CEO
Board chair
Brenna Woodley
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 19 funders, grant income rose $303k → $448k.
9 of 45 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 LUTHERAN CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES OF ILLINOIS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 45 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
LUTHERAN CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES OF ILLINOIS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% 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
72% 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 LUTHERAN CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES OF ILLINOIS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 30% · 2018 21% · 2019 27% · 2020 22% · 2021 19% · 2022 15% · 2023 27% — 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
46% of LUTHERAN CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES OF ILLINOIS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
73% of LUTHERAN CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES OF ILLINOIS's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $451k 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.
Organizations like LUTHERAN CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES OF ILLINOIS
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
98%
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
- Lutheran Child and Family Services of Illinois Foundation · exempt
- 360 Youth Services · exempt
- Arthur D Day and Armilda a Day Memorial Trust · corp_trust
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Questions and answers
- Who funds LUTHERAN CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES OF ILLINOIS?
- LUTHERAN CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES OF ILLINOIS (Illinois) receives grants from 45 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,539,096 to it, the largest being A&A DAY MEM TR 1020000980 ($633,308). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LUTHERAN CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES OF ILLINOIS have?
- IRS filings report 45 organizations giving $3,539,096 in grants to LUTHERAN CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES OF ILLINOIS, 27 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LUTHERAN CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES OF ILLINOIS?
- A&A DAY MEM TR 1020000980 is the largest funder on record, with $633,308 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LUTHERAN CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES OF ILLINOIS 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.
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 45 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