Illinois · Nonprofit
The CROYA Foundation Inc
The CROYA Foundation Inc (Illinois) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $114,340 to it, the largest being JOHN W PLANSOEN TRUST ($80,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $65k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $114k
- Net assets
- $486k
What The CROYA Foundation Inc does
Mission
To create an awareness in the City of Lake Forest, Illinois and the Village of Lake Bluff, Illinois of the interests and needs of the young adult citizens of each respective local youth organization known as CROYA Committee Representing Our Young Adults to provide materials and financial support to CROYA to assist it in fulfilling its goals and objectives, including without limitation the planning, design, funding and construction of new facilities to permit CROYA to continue its work within the communities of Lake Forest and Lake Bluff and to engage in any other lawful activities in accordance with the purposes herein described, provided such activities will not jeopardize the foundations status as an exempt organization under section 501 of the Internal Revenue Code.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Support for the activities and facilities of the local youth organization known as CROYA
$6,778 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $6,778.
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 2024 to 2025, from $442k to $486k (+10%).
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.
83% of The CROYA Foundation Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (99% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income fell $35k → $9k.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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 CROYA Foundation Inc’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 CROYA Foundation Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 70% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 85% · 2018 85% · 2019 91% · 2020 89% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 59% — 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
The CROYA Foundation Inc draws 74% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5k 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.
Against its field
The CROYA Foundation Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,200 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,200 youth development nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like The CROYA Foundation Inc
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.
Public support
78%
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 The CROYA Foundation Inc: 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 CROYA Foundation Inc?
- The CROYA Foundation Inc (Illinois) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $114,340 to it, the largest being JOHN W PLANSOEN TRUST ($80,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The CROYA Foundation Inc have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $114,340 in grants to The CROYA Foundation Inc, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The CROYA Foundation Inc?
- JOHN W PLANSOEN TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $80,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The CROYA Foundation Inc 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 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing