Illinois · Nonprofit
THE CRCA FOUNDATION
THE CRCA FOUNDATION (Illinois) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,600 to it, the largest being UNITED UNION OF ROOFERS WATERPROOFERS AND ALLIED WORKERS LOCAL NO 11 ($10,600). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
THE CRCA FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,946 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,946 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
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.
- International Union of Operating Engineers Local No 399shared funders
- Chicago Journeymen Plumbers' Local Union 130 Uaportfolio match
- Associated General Contractors of America Incportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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.
92% of THE CRCA FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2021: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $3k → $0.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $997k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Roofing Industry A&R Fund Research Fund). These are real filings, and they are not money THE CRCA FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of THE CRCA FOUNDATION’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 CRCA FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
88% 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 CRCA FOUNDATION.
“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
100% of THE CRCA FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $8k 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.
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.
- International Union of Operating Engineers Local No 399shared fundersIL · backs 4 organizations that share your funders
- Chicago Journeymen Plumbers' Local Union 130 Uaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Associated General Contractors of America Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Chicago Association of REALTORSportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Indiana Illinois & Iowa Foundation for Fair Contractingportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Laborers' Int'L Union of North America District Council of Chicagoportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mid-America Carpenters Regional Councilportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Labor Management Union Carpentry Cooperation Promotion Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Anne E Leibowitz Fund Co Joy Segalportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Gurtz Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Tully Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Stephen N and Ann S Potter Family Foundationportfolio 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 THE CRCA FOUNDATION
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
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
68%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Chicago Roofing Contractors Association · exempt
- Roofing Industry A&R Fund Research Fund · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE CRCA FOUNDATION: 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 THE CRCA FOUNDATION?
- THE CRCA FOUNDATION (Illinois) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,600 to it, the largest being UNITED UNION OF ROOFERS WATERPROOFERS AND ALLIED WORKERS LOCAL NO 11 ($10,600). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE CRCA FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $20,600 in grants to THE CRCA FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE CRCA FOUNDATION?
- UNITED UNION OF ROOFERS WATERPROOFERS AND ALLIED WORKERS LOCAL NO 11 is the largest funder on record, with $10,600 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE CRCA FOUNDATION 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 3funders 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