Illinois · Nonprofit
LYDIA HOME ASSOCIATION
LYDIA HOME ASSOCIATION (Illinois) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,793,675 to it, the largest being FIRST LOOK FOR CHARITY FOUNDATION ($633,603). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $27M
- Funders on record
- 39
- Grants received
- $2.8M
- Net assets
- $7.6M
What Lydia Home Association does
Mission
The mission of Lydia Home Association is to strengthen families to care for children and to care for children when families cannot. This mission is accomplished through a diverse range of programs designed to meet the physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of at-risk children and families including residential treatment, foster care, and intact family services.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Residential child care - lydia's residential treatment program provides a structured, therapeutic environment for 80 children and adolescents with serious behavioral issues, many of whom have been traumatized by abuse or neglect. The aim of the program is to provide healing and to teach children the practical life skills they need to live in a home setting successfully.
$15,863,603 spent$18,203,653 earned by the program71% of program spendingFoster care - lydia's foster care program temporarily places children outside of their homes due to abuse, neglect, or other family problems. The goal of the program is to protect the children with the ultimate goal of returning the child home. When that is not possible, measures are taken to get the children adopted, or prepared for independent life.
$3,140,498 spent$3,471,601 earned by the program14% of program spendingIntact family services - lydia's intact family services program works to ensure the safety and well-being of children, without the need for removal and out-of-home placement, by providing families with needed in-home services, including those for case management; counseling; substance abuse; physical, mental, and behavioral heath; and parent training.
$3,020,536 spent$3,451,351 earned by the program14% of program spendingOther - lydia has an international missionary program as well as a counseling center.
$262,419 spent$156,298 earned by the program1% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $22,287,056.
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 2023 to 2024, from $7.7M to $13M (+72%).
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 9% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
3% of LYDIA HOME ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as 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
David Anderson
Executive director
Board chair
Lawrence Boysen
Chairman/treasurer
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 18 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $356k → $571k.
10 of 39 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 37% 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 LYDIA HOME ASSOCIATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 39 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
LYDIA HOME ASSOCIATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% 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
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 LYDIA HOME ASSOCIATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 23% · 2018 26% · 2019 34% · 2020 34% · 2021 42% · 2022 27% · 2023 41% — 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
36% of LYDIA HOME ASSOCIATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 72% 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
87% of LYDIA HOME ASSOCIATION'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 7 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
LYDIA HOME ASSOCIATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,297 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,297 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like LYDIA HOME ASSOCIATION
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
87% 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 1 related entity
- Safe Families for Children Alliance · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LYDIA HOME 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 LYDIA HOME ASSOCIATION?
- LYDIA HOME ASSOCIATION (Illinois) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,793,675 to it, the largest being FIRST LOOK FOR CHARITY FOUNDATION ($633,603). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LYDIA HOME ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 39 organizations giving $2,793,675 in grants to LYDIA HOME ASSOCIATION, 28 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LYDIA HOME ASSOCIATION?
- FIRST LOOK FOR CHARITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $633,603 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LYDIA HOME 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.
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 39 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing