Illinois · Nonprofit
YWCA EvanstonNorth Shore
YWCA EvanstonNorth Shore (Illinois) receives grants from 76 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,710,631 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($13,719,203). 48 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.9M
- Funders on record
- 76
- Grants received
- $26M
- Net assets
- $30M
What YWCA EvanstonNorth Shore does
Mission
Ywca evanston/north shore provides domestic violence programs which includes providing affordable housing and other services to victims of domestic violence, the equity institute, the women's leadership and economic empowerment program, and the aquatics program to the north shore area of chicago.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Domestic violence program: ywca evanston/north shore operates the only comprehensive domestic violence program serving the entire northeastern metropolitan chicago area. Counselors and staff assist thousands of women each year in breaking free from violence in their homes, healing from that violence, and achieving stability free from their abusers. Services include: a 24-hour crisis phone/text line, 66-bed - 23-room emergency shelter, 15 unit longer term housing for women and children fleeing violence in their homes, bilingual community-based resources providing domestic violence counseling and support for women in the community, and a court-based legal advocacy program which offers legal information, referrals, and help securing orders of protection. The ywca evanston/north shore also delivers comprehensive education and outreach programming to teens and young adults focused on building healthy relationships and recognizing and preventing relationship violence and economic empowerment education for women.
$3,186,817 spent$2,679,854 earned by the program51% of program spendingAquatics program: the aquatics program seeks to teach all children in the community to be safe in the water, to encourage youth to become empowered through swimming, to provide a positive recreational outlet to adults and their families, and to create an environment of acceptance in which commitment, inner strength, self confidence and respect for one another are fostered. The program includes: parent-tot classes teaching kids 6 mos.-2 years to be comfortable in the water, learn-to-swim program for youth, swim team offering competitive and non-competitive tracks, masters program offering a swim team for adults, and aqua-aerobics, a low impact swimming for adults to build cardiovascular fitness, strength, and flexibilty.
$1,696,893 spent$1,360,519 earned by the program27% of program spendingWomen's Leadership and Economic Empowerment Program: The Women's Leadership and Economic Empowerment Program seeks to Empower Women through Education and Leadership, enhancing their ability to live independent, self-sufficient lives. Financial literacy educates low to moderate income women about basic money management. women leadership awards honor women from our community for their commitment to Women's empowerment and racial justice.
$653,253 spent$475,960 earned by the program10% of program spendingEquity Institute
$373,241 spent$82,834 earned by the program6% of program spendingRetail and consignment shops
$320,851 spent$454,706 earned by the program5% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,231,055.
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.
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 $24M to $39M (+59%).
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 15% · 2018 17% · 2019 8% · 2020 17% · 2021 9% · 2022 30% · 2023 32% · 2024 32% · 2025 34%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 18 funders to 27 funders, grant income rose $1.1M → $1.9M.
18 of 76 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 68% 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 YWCA EvanstonNorth Shore’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 76 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
YWCA EvanstonNorth Shore leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
91% 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 YWCA EvanstonNorth Shore.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 52% · 2018 35% · 2019 29% · 2020 46% · 2021 82% · 2022 23% · 2023 29% — 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
41% of YWCA EvanstonNorth Shore'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
68% of YWCA EvanstonNorth Shore's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $8.2M that is directly attributable, 76% of it comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $17M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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.
Government funding YWCA EvanstonNorth Shore receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.5M on record.
- Department of Justice$1.1M
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$450k
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 YWCA EvanstonNorth Shore
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
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
57%
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 YWCA EvanstonNorth Shore: 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 YWCA EvanstonNorth Shore?
- YWCA EvanstonNorth Shore (Illinois) receives grants from 76 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,710,631 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($13,719,203). 48 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does YWCA EvanstonNorth Shore have?
- IRS filings report 76 organizations giving $25,710,631 in grants to YWCA EvanstonNorth Shore, 48 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of YWCA EvanstonNorth Shore?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $13,719,203 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like YWCA EvanstonNorth Shore 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 76 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing