Illinois · Nonprofit
New Directions Addiction Recovery Services
New Directions Addiction Recovery Services (Illinois) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,501,853 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($720,626). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.9M
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $1.5M
- Net assets
- $1.8M
What New Directions Addiction Recovery Services does
Mission
To provide assistance and support for individuals that have substance addictions.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The Other Side - The Other Side is a sober bar that caters to the local recovery community. This was the organizations first program, which helped lead the way for the others. The sober bar is a place for recovering individuals to socialize, without being around the temptation of drugs or alcohol.
$225,555 spent$95,388 earned by the program13% of program spendingConnect to Recover - Connect to Recover is a call tree that helps recovering or struggling individuals get the help they need. The hotline directs callers to volunteers that assist by answering questions or providing advice, set up personal meetings, sit in on family interventions, provide transportation to meetings or treatment, and schedule follow-up meetings.
$249,189 spent15% of program spendingSober Living - Sober Living is a low-cost housing option for individuals recovering from addiction that do not have another place to go. The sober living houses have staff that help the residents and provide access to case workers that can help them rebuild their lives.
$1,228,906 spent$401,411 earned by the program72% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,703,650.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2020 to 2021, from $1.5M to $2.4M (+57%).
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: 2018 25% · 2019 11% · 2020 53% · 2021 70% · 2022 54% · 2023 10% · 2024 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
72% of New Directions Addiction Recovery Services’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $7k → $163k.
5 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 68% 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 New Directions Addiction Recovery 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
New Directions Addiction Recovery Services leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
75% 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 New Directions Addiction Recovery Services.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 71% · 2020 41% · 2021 88% · 2022 28% · 2023 38% — 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
50% of New Directions Addiction Recovery Services's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 78% 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
68% of New Directions Addiction Recovery Services'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 $484k that is directly attributable, 100% of it 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 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
New Directions Addiction Recovery Services has grown faster than three-quarters of the 5,002 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,002 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding New Directions Addiction Recovery Services receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $600k on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$600k
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 New Directions Addiction Recovery 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
85% 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 New Directions Addiction Recovery 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 New Directions Addiction Recovery Services?
- New Directions Addiction Recovery Services (Illinois) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,501,853 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($720,626). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does New Directions Addiction Recovery Services have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $1,501,853 in grants to New Directions Addiction Recovery Services, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of New Directions Addiction Recovery Services?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $720,626 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like New Directions Addiction Recovery 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 9 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