Illinois · Nonprofit
Pioneer Center for Human Services
Pioneer Center for Human Services (Illinois) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,235,695 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MCHENRY COUNTY ($557,285). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $15M
- Funders on record
- 40
- Grants received
- $2.2M
- Net assets
- $8.3M
What Pioneer Center for Human Services does
Mission
The Pioneer Center for Human Services provides developmental disability, behavioral health, and homeless services to help people live a dignified life of well-being, independence, and inclusion through educational, vocational, and community participation.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Residential Services- The Center provides residential services through supported and supervised group home seettings, including eight group homes for persons with developmental disabilities, as well as other supported living arrangements. Supportive services include case management, linkage to outside services and entitlement programs, skills training, and medical supervision. The Center also provides autism services through a 24-Hour therapeutic group home for adults ages 23 and over,as well as various day services all of which place a high value on providing clients with opportunities for recreations and social integration.
$4,720,420 spent$5,787,918 earned by the program42% of program spendingDay Services- The Center provides day services to adults with developmental disabilities through developmental training, senior care, and autism services. The Centers developmental training services assist individuals to acquire daily living skills to help them live as independently as possible, whereas, the Centers senior care services are designed to provide socialization opportunities and community integration for those individuals 50 and over as an alternative to the centers vocational services prgrams. The Center also provides various day services for those with autism, all of which place a high value on providing opportunities for recreation and social integration.
$2,794,162 spent$2,775,615 earned by the program25% of program spendingHomeless Services- The Center provides homeless services, including case management, through the McHenry County PADS program.
$1,194,632 spent$404,143 earned by the program11% of program spendingProgram Service Expenses 2,643,499, Grants and allocations 0, Revenue 2,103,456 Community Family Therapy The Center provides community family therapy services to children and their families through delinquency prevention, therapeutic mentoring, teenage mothers initiative TAMI, runaway homeless youth RHY, and intensive home therapy. Community Living Services The Center provides behavioral health community living services through five group homes for persons with mental illnesses. Community Services The Center provides community services to support individuals with mental illnesses or developmental disabilities. Employment and Vocational Services The Center provides employment and vocational services to adults with mental illnesses and developmental disabilities through employee development services, vocational rehabilitation centers, and community employment services.
$2,643,499 spent$2,103,456 earned by the program23% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $11,352,713.
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 2019 to 2020, from $7.2M to $9.2M (+28%).
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 29% · 2018 25% · 2019 17% · 2020 19% · 2021 39% · 2022 19% · 2023 21% · 2024 19% · 2025 18%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
25% of Pioneer Center for Human Services’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (21% 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
Frank Samuel
Chief Executive Officer
Board chair
Kathy Powell
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $52k → $223k.
13 of 40 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 58% 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 Pioneer Center for Human Services’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
Pioneer Center for Human Services has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
78% 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 Pioneer Center for Human Services.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 41% · 2018 52% · 2019 25% · 2020 39% · 2021 27% · 2022 31% · 2023 52% — 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
52% of Pioneer Center for Human Services's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% 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
58% of Pioneer Center for Human 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 $947k that is directly attributable, 92% of it comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
Pioneer Center for Human Services runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,297 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,297 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding Pioneer Center for Human Services receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.7M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$1.4M
- Department of Health and Human Services$1.3M
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 Pioneer Center for Human 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
80% 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 Pioneer Center for Human 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 Pioneer Center for Human Services?
- Pioneer Center for Human Services (Illinois) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,235,695 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MCHENRY COUNTY ($557,285). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Pioneer Center for Human Services have?
- IRS filings report 40 organizations giving $2,235,695 in grants to Pioneer Center for Human Services, 28 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Pioneer Center for Human Services?
- THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MCHENRY COUNTY is the largest funder on record, with $557,285 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Pioneer Center for Human 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 2017–2025), 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