Illinois · Nonprofit
YOUTHBUILD MCLEAN COUNTY
YOUTHBUILD MCLEAN COUNTY (Illinois) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,210,629 to it, the largest being YOUTHBUILD GLOBAL INC ($3,293,886). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $5.2M
- Net assets
- $311k
What Youthbuild McLean County does
Mission
Youthbuild's mission is to offer young people once in a lifetime opportunity to build their futures and their communities through education, leadership development, job training and the rehabilitation of affordable housing, while keeping a profound respect for and a commitment to a real partnership with youth.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Teach young people construction and entreprenurial skills through development and production of affordable housing and self-help housing and community revitalization. Helped disenfranchized youth learn responsibility striving towards self sufficiency by learning to respect themselves and their communities.
$571,064 spent$67,747 earned by the program31% of program spendingHelp disenfranchized youth earn their high school diploma or ged, work towards increased educational capacity and encourage higher education.
$655,114 spent$77,717 earned by the program35% of program spendingHelp youth, upon program completion, obtain meaningful employment at a competitive wage.
$632,892 spent$75,081 earned by the program34% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,859,070.
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 2020 to 2021, from $2.8M to $4.3M (+56%).
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 53% · 2018 57% · 2019 74% · 2020 61% · 2021 70% · 2022 78% · 2023 70% · 2024 58%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
81% of YOUTHBUILD MCLEAN COUNTY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Tracey Polson
CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $624k → $381k.
1 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 YOUTHBUILD MCLEAN COUNTY’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
YOUTHBUILD MCLEAN COUNTY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 63% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% 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 YOUTHBUILD MCLEAN COUNTY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 88% · 2018 92% · 2019 81% · 2020 51% · 2021 45% · 2022 46% · 2023 100% — 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
33% of YOUTHBUILD MCLEAN COUNTY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
YOUTHBUILD MCLEAN COUNTY draws 71% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $290k 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
YOUTHBUILD MCLEAN COUNTY receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $5.2M to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,752 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding YOUTHBUILD MCLEAN COUNTY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.6M on record.
- Department of Labor$2.6M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like YOUTHBUILD MCLEAN COUNTY
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
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
90%
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 1 related entity
- Ybmc Charter School · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for YOUTHBUILD MCLEAN COUNTY: 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. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds YOUTHBUILD MCLEAN COUNTY?
- YOUTHBUILD MCLEAN COUNTY (Illinois) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,210,629 to it, the largest being YOUTHBUILD GLOBAL INC ($3,293,886). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does YOUTHBUILD MCLEAN COUNTY have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $5,210,629 in grants to YOUTHBUILD MCLEAN COUNTY, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of YOUTHBUILD MCLEAN COUNTY?
- YOUTHBUILD GLOBAL INC is the largest funder on record, with $3,293,886 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like YOUTHBUILD MCLEAN COUNTY 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 8 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