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Chicago Public Education Fund
The CHICAGO PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND (the fund) is a nonprofit organization that improves public schools in chicago by investing in the talented educators who lead them.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 14 grants below total $926,584 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,144,689 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $218,105 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $6k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $152k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $769k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS - CHICAGO | $214,000 |
| NEW LEADERS INC | $182,089 |
| CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $144,000 |
| LEADERSHIP & DESIGN | $70,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON | $56,500 |
| NATIONAL SAM INNOVATION PROJECT | $52,335 |
| LATINO LEADERSHIP PIPELINE | $50,000 |
| MIKVA CHALLENGE | $48,750 |
| ACCELERATE INSTITUTE | $30,880 |
| NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY | $27,150 |
| SURGE INSTITUTE INC | $22,500 |
| THE HUMAN SCHOOLS PROJECT INCORPORATED | $12,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO CONSORTIUM ON SCHOOL RESEARCH | $10,000 |
| ILLINOIS PRINCIPALS ASSOCIATION | $5,880 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 90% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
6 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $384k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- CCCHICAGO CONNECTED8× · 2017–2024 · $1.1M
- TBTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS2× · 2023–2024 · $419k
- LALEADERSHIP AND DESIGN2× · 2023–2024 · $131k · revenue +17%
Funded once
- TMTHE MODERN CLASSROOMS PROJECT INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +96%
- ACACERO CHARTER SCHOOLS INCone grant, 2021 · $7k · revenue +5%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Leaders Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Human Schools Project Incorporated. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 16 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds NEW LEADERS INC ↗
- Who funds LEADERSHIP AND DESIGN ↗
- Who funds NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Accelerate Institute ↗
- Who funds National SAM Innovation Project Inc ↗
- Who funds MIKVA CHALLENGE GRANT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SURGE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE MODERN CLASSROOMS PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds The Human Schools Project Incorporated ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds ACERO CHARTER SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS PRINCIPALS ASSOCIATION ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Chicago Public Education Fund funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Northeastern University — 4% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.