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Target Area Development Corporation

Target Area Development Corporation (Illinois) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,178,195 to it, the largest being JOHN D AND CATHERINE T MACARTHUR FOUNDATION ($1,010,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$9.9M
Funders on record
11
Grants received
$3.2M
Net assets
$548k
6/11 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 12%
01What it does

What Target Area Development Corporation does

Mission

The mission of Target Area Development Corporation is to create thriving and sustainable communities by building residents capacity to solve stubborn problems using research, organizing, mobilization and education.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Public safety consists of the following programs: 1 Chicago Public Schools Safe Passage Program 2. Communities Partnering for Peace: The Auburn Gresham/Englewood program is part of the larger strategic public health initiative.

    $10,303,529 spent$9,953,274 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $10,303,529.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($4.2M) Expenses 100 ($4.2M) Net assets 100 ($998k)2020 Revenue 170 ($7.1M) Expenses 164 ($6.9M) Net assets 125 ($1.3M)2021 Revenue 183 ($7.6M) Expenses 174 ($7.3M) Net assets 110 ($1.1M)2022 Revenue 165 ($6.9M) Expenses 174 ($7.3M) Net assets 110 ($1.1M)2024 Revenue 238 ($9.9M) Expenses 258 ($11M) Net assets 55 ($548k)
20192020202120222024
Revenue (238)Expenses (258)Net assets (55)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 2020 to 2021, from $1.7M to $1.1M (−34%).

$1.3M
$1.7M
$1.1M
$1.1M
$1.7M
20192020202120222024
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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2024 80%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

100% of Target Area Development Corporation’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (93% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,392 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

−$1k
’19
$254k
’20
$356k
’21
−$365k
’22
−$860k
’24
0.5
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

Joseph Stanford

President & CEO

Board chair

Kelly Williams

Chairman

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.

20192020202120222024
Listed101118
Joined·····
No longer listed·····
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose $36k → $402k.

2 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 41% 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 Target Area Development Corporation’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

Target Area Development Corporation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

44% 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 Target Area Development Corporation.

32%
largest funder
73%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 84% · 2019 53% · 2020 36% · 2021 41% · 2022 64% · 2023 48% — 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

60% of Target Area Development Corporation's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

72% of Target Area Development Corporation's grant income comes from Illinois funders.

WA
IL
NY

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

’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Illinois out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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

Target Area Development Corporation has grown faster than half of the 1,337 crime & legal nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−9% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve0.5mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)19% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,337 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Organizations like Target Area Development Corporation

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In Illinois

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

95% of spending goes to programs.

Program 95%Management 5%Fundraising 0%

Governance

6
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

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

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Target Area Development Corporation: 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 Target Area Development Corporation?
Target Area Development Corporation (Illinois) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,178,195 to it, the largest being JOHN D AND CATHERINE T MACARTHUR FOUNDATION ($1,010,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Target Area Development Corporation have?
IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $3,178,195 in grants to Target Area Development Corporation, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Target Area Development Corporation?
JOHN D AND CATHERINE T MACARTHUR FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,010,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Target Area Development Corporation 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 2019–2024), and the filings of 11 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