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PHALANX FAMILY SERVICES

PHALANX FAMILY SERVICES (Illinois) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,668,951 to it, the largest being CHICAGO COOK WORKFORCE PARTNERSHIP ($6,806,575). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$0
Revenue FY2025
17
Funders on record
$11M
Grants received
$0
Net assets
9/17 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 17%

Against its field

PHALANX FAMILY SERVICES has grown faster than three-quarters of the 9,089 human services nonprofits its size.

Revenue growth (annualized)17% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,089 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($4.3M) Expenses 100 ($4.2M) Net assets 100 ($1.4M)2018 Revenue 95 ($4.1M) Expenses 97 ($4.0M) Net assets 100 ($1.4M)2019 Revenue 106 ($4.6M) Expenses 106 ($4.4M) Net assets 112 ($1.6M)2020 Revenue 106 ($4.6M) Expenses 104 ($4.3M) Net assets 130 ($1.8M)2021 Revenue 174 ($7.5M) Expenses 170 ($7.1M) Net assets 164 ($2.3M)2022 Revenue 253 ($11M) Expenses 231 ($9.6M) Net assets 261 ($3.7M)2023 Revenue 365 ($16M) Expenses 363 ($15M) Net assets 312 ($4.4M)2024 Revenue 303 ($13M) Expenses 335 ($14M) Net assets 258 ($3.6M)2025 Revenue 0 ($0) Expenses 0 ($0) Net assets 0 ($0)
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Revenue (0)Expenses (0)Net assets (0)Peer revenue range

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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 73% · 2018 67% · 2019 77% · 2020 77% · 2021 83% · 2022 65% · 2023 82% · 2024 93%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

0% of PHALANX FAMILY SERVICES’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,424 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$178k
17
$82k
18
$159k
19
$258k
20
$485k
21
$1.4M
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$721k
23
$759k
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$0
25
0.9
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reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $464k → $1.7M.

2 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)3% 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 PHALANX FAMILY 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

PHALANX FAMILY SERVICES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 64% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

99% 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 PHALANX FAMILY SERVICES.

64%
largest funder
84%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 99% · 2018 62% · 2019 65% · 2020 48% · 2021 69% · 2022 68% · 2023 73%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

67% of PHALANX FAMILY SERVICES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

93% of PHALANX FAMILY SERVICES's grant income comes from Illinois funders.

IL
NY
MD

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

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Illinois out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $270k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 17 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like PHALANX FAMILY SERVICES

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Illinois

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

0% of spending goes to programs.

Program 0%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

0%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

IL

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PHALANX FAMILY 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds PHALANX FAMILY SERVICES?
PHALANX FAMILY SERVICES (Illinois) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,668,951 to it, the largest being CHICAGO COOK WORKFORCE PARTNERSHIP ($6,806,575). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does PHALANX FAMILY SERVICES have?
IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $10,668,951 in grants to PHALANX FAMILY SERVICES, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of PHALANX FAMILY SERVICES?
CHICAGO COOK WORKFORCE PARTNERSHIP is the largest funder on record, with $6,806,575 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like PHALANX FAMILY 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.

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 17funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing