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Recovery International

Recovery International (Illinois) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $698,300 to it, the largest being ELIZABETH N CRANE FOUNDATION ($585,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$842k
Funders on record
5
Grants received
$698k
Net assets
$3.5M
4/5 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 32%
01What it does

What Recovery International does

Mission

Recovery International is an international self-help community mental health organization whose mission is to make available a self-help method to reduce suffering and improve mental health through weekly group, telephone, and online meetings.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Provides recovery focused self-help training to persons with diagnosed and undiagnosed mental illness, behavioral disorders and chronic stress. The program offers cognitive behavioral techniques and more than 500 groups throughout North America and Europe. Services donated by specially trained group and area leaders amounted to $584,510.

    $642,673 spent$37,997 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $642,673.

02The 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 ($665k) Expenses 100 ($643k) Net assets 100 ($842k)2018 Revenue 93 ($618k) Expenses 115 ($743k) Net assets 85 ($717k)2019 Revenue 266 ($1.8M) Expenses 117 ($753k) Net assets 205 ($1.7M)2020 Revenue 140 ($934k) Expenses 111 ($711k) Net assets 232 ($2.0M)2021 Revenue 125 ($828k) Expenses 109 ($704k) Net assets 247 ($2.1M)2022 Revenue 430 ($2.9M) Expenses 138 ($891k) Net assets 480 ($4.0M)2023 Revenue 103 ($686k) Expenses 145 ($933k) Net assets 451 ($3.8M)2024 Revenue 127 ($842k) Expenses 177 ($1.1M) Net assets 416 ($3.5M)
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Revenue (127)Expenses (177)Net assets (416)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $3.4M to $5.5M (+59%).

$882k
$756k
$1.8M
$2.0M
$3.4M
$5.5M
$5.2M
$4.9M
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 8% · 2021 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

76% of Recovery International’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (83% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 14,932 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$21k
’17
−$124k
’18
$1.0M
’19
$222k
’20
$124k
’21
$2.0M
’22
−$246k
’23
−$296k
’24
35
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

Karen Hall

Chief Executive Officer

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.

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Listed1310101010101214
Joined·+1+2+1+0+0+5+3
No longer listed·4210031
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $2k → $220k.

3 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 Recovery International’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

Recovery International leans on a few funders — its largest provides 84% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

84%
largest funder
99%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 97% · 2020 52% · 2021 91% · 2022 96% · 2023 91% — 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.

Where its funders are

Recovery International draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 2 states in all.

PA
CA

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

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’20
’21
’22
’23
Illinois out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $57k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Recovery International holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 13,769 health nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−35% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve34.6mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)3% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,769 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like Recovery International

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

56% of spending goes to programs.

Program 56%Management 33%Fundraising 11%

Governance

11
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

34%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 2 states

IL
CA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Recovery International: 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 Recovery International?
Recovery International (Illinois) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $698,300 to it, the largest being ELIZABETH N CRANE FOUNDATION ($585,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Recovery International have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $698,300 in grants to Recovery International, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Recovery International?
ELIZABETH N CRANE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $585,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Recovery International 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 5 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