Illinois · Nonprofit
THE CENTER FOR YOUTH AND FAMILY SOLUTIONS
THE CENTER FOR YOUTH AND FAMILY SOLUTIONS (Illinois) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,317,715 to it, the largest being HEART OF ILLINOIS UNITED WAY INC ($475,588). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $49M
- Funders on record
- 30
- Grants received
- $1.3M
- Net assets
- $9.6M
What The Center for Youth and Family Solutions does
Mission
The Center for Youth and Family Solutions partners with children, families and communities who have faced critical challenges in life. The focus is on the innate strengths of all people with whom we interact. We treat everyone with dignity, compassion and respect, and we demonstrate that with the right support and resources all people can achieve solutions in their lives.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Child welfare services- through counseling, casework, and educational support services, we help families change circumstances of abuse and neglect that led their children to being placed in foster care.
$33,618,482 spentof which $9,041,486 as grants$37,867,211 earned by the program78% of program spendingBehavioral health - provides community access to affordable, therapy services to empower and assist individuals, couples, and families in resolving their concerns and relationship issues. The program does not deny services to anyone based on age, sex, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, national origin, ability or religion; or inability to pay, medicare, medicaid, or youth care insurance program coverage.
$3,949,240 spentof which $66,033 as grants$4,128,664 earned by the program9% of program spendingYouth, family and community outreach services - offers prevention, diversion, and intervention services to stabilize families in crisis, prevent juvenile delinquency, and divert at-risk youth from involvement in the child welfare or juvenile justice systems; and the rsvp volunteer program matches senior volunteers with rewarding opportunities in peoria and tazewell counties. The new day senior in-home counseling and friendly visitor program provides in-home counseling, case management and volunteer companion services to seniors, ages 60 years and older, in peoria, woodford, tazewell, fulton, marshall and stark counties.
$3,632,362 spentof which $200,576 as grants$4,040,380 earned by the program8% of program spendingResidential care - our guardian angel home is a residential treatment center that provides emotionally troubled boys ages 6-12 the necessary clinical intervention, counseling, recreational activities and medical care. We also assist the youth in making the transition to their home, or placement with a foster family, or a relative upon discharge.
$1,806,271 spentof which $16,733 as grants$2,151,287 earned by the program4% of program spendingVarious other programs including adoption.
$90,103 spentof which $950 as grants$357,754 earned by the program0% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $43,096,458.
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 $6.7M to $13M (+91%).
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: 2021 1% · 2022 9% · 2023 2% · 2024 2% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
1% of THE CENTER FOR YOUTH AND FAMILY SOLUTIONS’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 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
Patrick Phelan
Chief executive officer
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $139k → $209k.
6 of 30 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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 THE CENTER FOR YOUTH AND FAMILY SOLUTIONS’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
THE CENTER FOR YOUTH AND FAMILY SOLUTIONS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 36% 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
92% 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 THE CENTER FOR YOUTH AND FAMILY SOLUTIONS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 53% · 2018 70% · 2019 40% · 2020 42% · 2021 63% · 2022 69% · 2023 44% — 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
29% of THE CENTER FOR YOUTH AND FAMILY SOLUTIONS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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
90% of THE CENTER FOR YOUTH AND FAMILY SOLUTIONS's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $205k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
THE CENTER FOR YOUTH AND FAMILY SOLUTIONS has grown faster 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
Organizations like THE CENTER FOR YOUTH AND FAMILY SOLUTIONS
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
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
89%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE CENTER FOR YOUTH AND FAMILY SOLUTIONS: 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 THE CENTER FOR YOUTH AND FAMILY SOLUTIONS?
- THE CENTER FOR YOUTH AND FAMILY SOLUTIONS (Illinois) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,317,715 to it, the largest being HEART OF ILLINOIS UNITED WAY INC ($475,588). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE CENTER FOR YOUTH AND FAMILY SOLUTIONS have?
- IRS filings report 30 organizations giving $1,317,715 in grants to THE CENTER FOR YOUTH AND FAMILY SOLUTIONS, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE CENTER FOR YOUTH AND FAMILY SOLUTIONS?
- HEART OF ILLINOIS UNITED WAY INC is the largest funder on record, with $475,588 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE CENTER FOR YOUTH AND FAMILY SOLUTIONS 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 30 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