Illinois · Nonprofit
YWCA NORTHWESTERN ILLINOIS
YWCA NORTHWESTERN ILLINOIS (Illinois) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,544,984 to it, the largest being FIELD FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS ($2,357,008). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.2M
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $5.5M
- Net assets
- $3.0M
What YWCA Northwestern Illinois does
Mission
YWCA Northwestern Illinois provides advocacies and programming to support individual empowerment. The organization serves more than 13,500 women, children, and families through childcare subsidy, quality child care access and improvement resources, ywca la voz latina's community support and resources, home visiting and family advocacy, ywca literacy council adult literacy programming, and workforce development training and resources. YWCA Northwestern Illinois delivers its mission of "promoting peace, justice, freedom and dignity for all" in the six-county area of boone, jo daviess, mchenry, ogle, stephenson, and winnebago, illinois.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
YWCA Northwestern Illinois provides child care resource and referral services to parents who are working or attending school on a full-time basis. Training, resources, and technical assistance is provided to child care centers and at-home child care providers.
$2,233,230 spent$2,233,026 earned by the program40% of program spendingThe organization assists families through services for family advocacy; home visiting for at-risk maternal infant and early childhood families; newcomer support; and partner abuse intervention services.
$3,145,750 spent$3,481,244 earned by the program56% of program spendingThe organization conducts workforce and entrepreneurial education; assists individuals in finding employment, and interpretation and translation services for the community.
$263,125 spent$213,749 earned by the program5% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,642,105.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2021 to 2022, from $3.2M to $2.4M (−25%).
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: 2021 67% · 2022 81% · 2023 89% · 2024 95% · 2025 95%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of YWCA NORTHWESTERN ILLINOIS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 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
Kris Machajewski
CEO
Board chair
Dawna Menke
Chairwoman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 7 funders, grant income rose $26k → $422k.
6 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% 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: $432k from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest United Way of Rock River Valley). These are real filings, and they are not money YWCA NORTHWESTERN ILLINOIS raised.
From the IRS filings of YWCA NORTHWESTERN ILLINOIS’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
YWCA NORTHWESTERN ILLINOIS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
53% 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 NORTHWESTERN ILLINOIS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 96% · 2019 97% · 2020 70% · 2021 79% · 2022 76% · 2023 48% — 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
67% of YWCA NORTHWESTERN ILLINOIS'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
94% of YWCA NORTHWESTERN ILLINOIS's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.
Against its field
YWCA NORTHWESTERN ILLINOIS runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 7,349 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like YWCA NORTHWESTERN ILLINOIS
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
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds YWCA NORTHWESTERN ILLINOIS?
- YWCA NORTHWESTERN ILLINOIS (Illinois) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,544,984 to it, the largest being FIELD FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS ($2,357,008). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does YWCA NORTHWESTERN ILLINOIS have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $5,544,984 in grants to YWCA NORTHWESTERN ILLINOIS, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of YWCA NORTHWESTERN ILLINOIS?
- FIELD FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS is the largest funder on record, with $2,357,008 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like YWCA NORTHWESTERN ILLINOIS 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 19 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