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PEOPLE FOR COMMUNITY RECOVERY

PEOPLE FOR COMMUNITY RECOVERY (Illinois) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,704,753 to it, the largest being Builders Vision Foundation ($1,006,000). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$2.3M
Funders on record
40
Grants received
$4.7M
Net assets
$3.5M
20/40 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 70%
01What it does

What People for Community Recovery does

Mission

To provide environmental justice and education to the general public.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. PCR provides services to enhance the quality of life through education and training on issues of health, housing, and safety.

    $1,182,410 spent$2,273,664 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,182,410.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($246k) Expenses 100 ($258k) Net assets -1 ($-2791)2021 Revenue 290 ($715k) Expenses 140 ($361k) Net assets 100 ($402k)2022 Revenue 512 ($1.3M) Expenses 258 ($665k) Net assets 245 ($984k)2023 Revenue 875 ($2.2M) Expenses 427 ($1.1M) Net assets 502 ($2.0M)2024 Revenue 760 ($1.9M) Expenses 500 ($1.3M) Net assets 665 ($2.7M)2025 Revenue 932 ($2.3M) Expenses 574 ($1.5M) Net assets 878 ($3.5M)
201920212022202320242025
Revenue (932)Expenses (574)Net assets (878)

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 $984k to $2.0M (+106%).

$13k
$402k
$984k
$2.0M
$2.7M
$3.6M
201920212022202320242025
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.

2019
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

−$11k
’19
$354k
’21
$596k
’22
$1.1M
’23
$582k
’24
$818k
’25
29
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.

Chief executive

Cheryl Johnson

Executive director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

201920212022202320242025
Listed889777
Joined··+1+2+0+0
No longer listed··0400
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 18 funders, grant income rose $42k → $983k.

8 of 40 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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 PEOPLE FOR COMMUNITY RECOVERY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 40 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

PEOPLE FOR COMMUNITY RECOVERY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left

69% 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 PEOPLE FOR COMMUNITY RECOVERY.

21%
largest funder
44%
top three
~11
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 72% · 2018 64% · 2019 82% · 2020 50% · 2021 18% · 2022 24% · 2023 29% — 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

20% of PEOPLE FOR COMMUNITY RECOVERY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

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

PEOPLE FOR COMMUNITY RECOVERY draws 51% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 10 states in all.

IL
NY
MA
OH
CA
CO
DE
AZ
DC
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Illinois out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $782k 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.

04Its place in the field

Government funding PEOPLE FOR COMMUNITY RECOVERY receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $75k on record.

Federal$75k
grants $75kcontracts $0
Top agencies
  • Environmental Protection Agency$75k

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 PEOPLE FOR COMMUNITY RECOVERY

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

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

80% of spending goes to programs.

Program 80%Management 20%Fundraising 0%

Governance

8
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.

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PEOPLE FOR COMMUNITY RECOVERY: 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 PEOPLE FOR COMMUNITY RECOVERY?
PEOPLE FOR COMMUNITY RECOVERY (Illinois) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,704,753 to it, the largest being Builders Vision Foundation ($1,006,000). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does PEOPLE FOR COMMUNITY RECOVERY have?
IRS filings report 40 organizations giving $4,704,753 in grants to PEOPLE FOR COMMUNITY RECOVERY, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of PEOPLE FOR COMMUNITY RECOVERY?
Builders Vision Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $1,006,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like PEOPLE FOR COMMUNITY RECOVERY 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 40 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