Illinois · Nonprofit
SHINING STAR CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER
SHINING STAR CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER (Illinois) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $111,942 to it, the largest being United Way of Rock River Valley ($59,057). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
SHINING STAR CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,392 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,392 crime & legal nonprofits $100k–$1M, 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.
- Katherine Shaw Bethea Hospitallocal
- Sexually Abused Children's Relief Endeavor (Sacred)portfolio match
- National Children's Alliance Incportfolio match
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.
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 57% · 2018 64% · 2019 62% · 2020 61% · 2021 67% · 2022 61% · 2023 70% · 2024 63% · 2025 59%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
86% of SHINING STAR CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (94% 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
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $13k → $51.
3 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 45% 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 SHINING STAR CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 8 of 9 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
SHINING STAR CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
98% 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 SHINING STAR CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 98% · 2022 73% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
40% of SHINING STAR CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 22% 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
99% of SHINING STAR CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $50k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 statesis 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.
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 9 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Katherine Shaw Bethea HospitallocalIL · funds 14 organizations near you
- Sexually Abused Children's Relief Endeavor (Sacred)portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Children's Alliance Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Knot Today Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Colorado Child Advocacy Allianceportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Planning Implementation and Evaluation Orgportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Missouri Network Against Child Abuseportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Children's Advocacy Centers of Georgia Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ohio Network of Children's Advocacy Centersportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Illinois Coalition Against Domestic Violenceportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Best Walter & Edith Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Elgin Children's Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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 SHINING STAR CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER
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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 SHINING STAR CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: 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.
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 SHINING STAR CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER?
- SHINING STAR CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER (Illinois) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $111,942 to it, the largest being United Way of Rock River Valley ($59,057). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SHINING STAR CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $111,942 in grants to SHINING STAR CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SHINING STAR CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER?
- United Way of Rock River Valley is the largest funder on record, with $59,057 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SHINING STAR CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER 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 9funders 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