Illinois · Nonprofit
WILL COUNTY CENTER FOR COMMUNITY CONCERNS
WILL COUNTY CENTER FOR COMMUNITY CONCERNS (Illinois) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,783,708 to it, the largest being ILLINOIS ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCIES ($1,322,695). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $13M
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $1.8M
- Net assets
- $2.5M
What Will County Center for Community Concerns does
Mission
The mission of Will County Center for Community Concerns is to assist and enable low and moderate income individuals to obtain the opportunities needed to prepare themselves for self-sufficiency.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Low-income home energy assistance is designed to assist will county low income eligible households pay for energy services. The program served 7,617 people in the past year.
$5,586,248 spentof which $5,064,598 as grants48% of program spendingThe majority of program expenses and revenue for housing relate to the resource innovations program. The goal of the program is to weatherize homes to make them more energy efficient.
$2,308,642 spentof which $2,028,117 as grants20% of program spendingWeatherization assistance is designed to help low-income residents save fuel and money while increasing the comfort of their homes. In the past year, the program weatherized 82 homes.
$2,119,936 spentof which $1,527,641 as grants18% of program spendingCommunity services block grant, homeless services, financial literacy, emergency assistance, etc.
$1,651,875 spentof which $1,112,231 as grants14% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $11,666,701.
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 2017 to 2018, from $2.3M to $1.4M (−38%).
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 86% · 2018 89% · 2019 99% · 2020 100% · 2021 93% · 2022 97% · 2023 96% · 2024 99% · 2025 90%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of WILL COUNTY CENTER FOR COMMUNITY CONCERNS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (61% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 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
Michelle Allen
Executive director
Board chair
Sheldon Watts
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $191k → $227k.
1 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 WILL COUNTY CENTER FOR COMMUNITY CONCERNS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 11 of 13 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
WILL COUNTY CENTER FOR COMMUNITY CONCERNS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 74% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
93% 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 WILL COUNTY CENTER FOR COMMUNITY CONCERNS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 62% · 2018 98% · 2019 94% · 2020 84% · 2021 97% · 2022 57% · 2023 93% — growing more concentrated.
“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
38% of WILL COUNTY CENTER FOR COMMUNITY CONCERNS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
100% of WILL COUNTY CENTER FOR COMMUNITY CONCERNS's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
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
WILL COUNTY CENTER FOR COMMUNITY CONCERNS's funding base is broadening — from 4 funders to 6 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 328 community improvement nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like WILL COUNTY CENTER FOR COMMUNITY CONCERNS
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
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WILL COUNTY CENTER FOR COMMUNITY CONCERNS: 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 WILL COUNTY CENTER FOR COMMUNITY CONCERNS?
- WILL COUNTY CENTER FOR COMMUNITY CONCERNS (Illinois) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,783,708 to it, the largest being ILLINOIS ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCIES ($1,322,695). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WILL COUNTY CENTER FOR COMMUNITY CONCERNS have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $1,783,708 in grants to WILL COUNTY CENTER FOR COMMUNITY CONCERNS, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WILL COUNTY CENTER FOR COMMUNITY CONCERNS?
- ILLINOIS ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCIES is the largest funder on record, with $1,322,695 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WILL COUNTY CENTER FOR COMMUNITY CONCERNS 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 13 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