Illinois · Nonprofit
National Runaway Switchboard
National Runaway Switchboard (Illinois) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $343,458 to it, the largest being Chicago Cubs Charities ($79,500). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.9M
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $343k
- Net assets
- $356k
What National Runaway Switchboard does
Mission
The mission of the national runaway safeline is to keep america's youth safe, housed, and off the streets. We accomplish our mission by maintaining 24/7 hotlines including 1-800-runaway, illinois ccbys information and referral line, and the il teen suicide prevention hotline. To connect and refer young people and their families to the local support they need, nrs maintains a nationwide resource database of over 6,000 organizations that provide vital services to youth and families in crisis. In addition, nrs operates the home free program in partnership with greyhound to provide youth between the ages of 12-21 who have run away or are experiencing homelessness with a free bus ticket home or to a safe living environment.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
For fifty years, the National Runaway Safeline (NRS) has worked to keep America's runaway, homeless and at-risk youth (ages 12-21) safe and off the streets, with the goal of one day ending youth homelessness. Through NRS' 24/7 crisis services, including a hotline (1-800-RUNAWAY) and digital services at 1800RUNAWAY.org (including live chat, text, email, and forum services), a range of unique programs and partnerships, and an extensive database of over 6,000 local resources for youth in need across the country,...Continued on Schedule O.
$1,629,154 spent88% of program spendingYOUTH NETWORK COUNCIL dba Illinois Collaboration on Youth
$230,041 spent$230,041 earned by the program12% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,859,195.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2019 to 2020, from $332k to $877k (+164%).
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: 2019 86% · 2020 86% · 2021 89% · 2022 85% · 2023 90% · 2024 88% · 2025 78%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
92% of National Runaway Switchboard’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 7 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 4 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $23k → $64k.
8 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 47% 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 National Runaway Switchboard’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
National Runaway Switchboard 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
77% 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 National Runaway Switchboard.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 40% · 2018 31% · 2019 51% · 2020 85% · 2021 66% · 2022 29% · 2023 21% — 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
14% of National Runaway Switchboard's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
91% of National Runaway Switchboard's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $160k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
National Runaway Switchboard runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding National Runaway Switchboard receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $17.3M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$17.3M
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 National Runaway Switchboard
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for National Runaway Switchboard: 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 National Runaway Switchboard?
- National Runaway Switchboard (Illinois) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $343,458 to it, the largest being Chicago Cubs Charities ($79,500). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does National Runaway Switchboard have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $343,458 in grants to National Runaway Switchboard, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of National Runaway Switchboard?
- Chicago Cubs Charities is the largest funder on record, with $79,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like National Runaway Switchboard 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 19 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