Illinois · Nonprofit
PERSONAL ASSISTANCE TELEPHONE HELP INC
PERSONAL ASSISTANCE TELEPHONE HELP INC (Illinois) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,425,293 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF LAKE COUNTY INC ($888,713). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.8M
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $208k
What Personal Assistance Telephone Help Inc does
Mission
Providing access to help to improve the lives of vulnerable individuals through a 24/7/365 suicide and mental health crisis line and a 24/7/365 211 resource and referral line, service, and services for the homeless.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
Ended all 211 services on june 30, 2025.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
Provided mental health and suicide crisis intervention services.
$1,565,550 spent$152,338 earned by the program45% of program spendingProvided housing support to the residents of the mclean county and the surrounding.
$1,951,704 spent55% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,517,254.
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 2024 to 2025, from $4.8M to $731k (−85%).
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 63% · 2018 61% · 2019 60% · 2020 54% · 2021 62% · 2022 85% · 2023 93% · 2024 94% · 2025 80%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of PERSONAL ASSISTANCE TELEPHONE HELP INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (51% for the typical peer).
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
Adam Carter
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $78k → $248k.
3 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 PERSONAL ASSISTANCE TELEPHONE HELP INC’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
PERSONAL ASSISTANCE TELEPHONE HELP INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 PERSONAL ASSISTANCE TELEPHONE HELP INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 53% · 2018 51% · 2019 53% · 2020 65% · 2021 76% · 2022 100% · 2023 75% — 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
29% of PERSONAL ASSISTANCE TELEPHONE HELP INC'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
98% of PERSONAL ASSISTANCE TELEPHONE HELP INC's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $8k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
PERSONAL ASSISTANCE TELEPHONE HELP INC has grown faster than half of the 4,665 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,665 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding PERSONAL ASSISTANCE TELEPHONE HELP INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.4M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$1.4M
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 PERSONAL ASSISTANCE TELEPHONE HELP INC
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
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 PERSONAL ASSISTANCE TELEPHONE HELP INC: 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 PERSONAL ASSISTANCE TELEPHONE HELP INC?
- PERSONAL ASSISTANCE TELEPHONE HELP INC (Illinois) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,425,293 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF LAKE COUNTY INC ($888,713). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PERSONAL ASSISTANCE TELEPHONE HELP INC have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $1,425,293 in grants to PERSONAL ASSISTANCE TELEPHONE HELP INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PERSONAL ASSISTANCE TELEPHONE HELP INC?
- UNITED WAY OF LAKE COUNTY INC is the largest funder on record, with $888,713 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PERSONAL ASSISTANCE TELEPHONE HELP INC 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 10 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