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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.

$1.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$214k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Education$2.2MEmployment$112kCommunity Improvement$50k
02FY2024 · 14 grants

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
$50,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$40M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

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.

show:

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.

area typical 10%NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $71k → 16%LEADERSHIP & DESIGN: $70k → 8%NEW LEADERS INC: $182k → 17%THE MODERN CLASSROOMS PROJECT: $15k → 14%THE HUMAN SCHOOLS PROJECT INCORPORATED: $13k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $57k → 9%ILLINOIS PRINCIPALS ASSOCIATION: $6k → 11%Chicago Public Schools: $392k → 14%NATIONAL SAM INNOVATION PROJECT: $52k → 15%NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $27k → 16%LEADERSHIP & DESIGN: $61k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $56k → 9%Chicago Public Schools: $392k → 14%CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $144k → 14%CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $97k → 14%Chicago Public Schools: $35k → 14%Chicago Public Schools: $19k → 14%Chicago Public Schools: $13k → 14%Chicago Public Schools: $9k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO CONSORTIUM ON SCHOOL RESEARCH: $10k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS - CHICAGO: $214k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS - CHICAGO: $205k → 14%Acero Charter Schools: $7k → 14%SURGE INSTITUTE INC: $23k → 14%LATINO LEADERSHIP PIPELINE: $50k → 14%MIKVA CHALLENGE: $49k → 14%ACCELERATE INSTITUTE: $47k → 14%ACCELERATE INSTITUTE: $31k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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IL
NY
MA
CT
CA
KY
DC

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.9M · 6 repeat orgs$406k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
2

Total granted

$1.9M
$22k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+96%

Still filing today

50%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $384k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationPhilanthropyOther

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

  • CC
    CHICAGO CONNECTED
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.1M
  • TB
    THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS
    2× · 2023–2024 · $419k
  • LA
    LEADERSHIP AND DESIGN
    2× · 2023–2024 · $131k · revenue +17%

Funded once

  • TM
    THE MODERN CLASSROOMS PROJECT INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +96%
  • AC
    ACERO CHARTER SCHOOLS INC
    one 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.

04Your field

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.

1
National Institute for Excellence in Teaching

Building educator excellence to give all students the opportunity for success.

Education
2
Leading Educators Inc

Leading educators partners with school systems to build and sustain the conditions, teaching, and leadership to ensure that the students furthest from opportunity succeed in school and in life.

Education
3
The National Center on Education and the Economy

The Center is dedicated to providing tools the nation needs to lead the world in education & training in a swiftly globalizing world economy.

Public Benefit
4
The Leadership Academy Inc

Harnessing leadership as a lever for change, we partner with education leaders through professional learning and coaching to transform schools and accelerate learning for all students.

Education
5
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.

Education
6
Philadelphia Academy of School Leaders Inc

We develop, engage, and retain principals and system leaders who transform schools, dramatically improve student outcomes, and drive systemic change to prepare all philadelphia students for college, career, and life.

Education
7
National Association of Independent Schools Inc

As the largest association of independent schools, nais co-creates the future of education by uniting and empowering our community. we do this through thought leadership, research, creation and curation of resources, and direct…

8
New Classrooms Innovation Partners Inc

To create and inspire better ways to give every student an educational foundation for lifelong success. we imagine a world where every student attends a school that meets them where they are, adapts to the unique ways they learn, and…

Education
9
Innovations in Education - a Nelson Project
Education
10
360 Accelerator Education Partners

360 Accelerator provides leadership development services to public education leaders.

11
Up Education Network

The principal intent of the organization is to conduct activities to advance education reform in public schools, including public charter schools. specifically, the organization will engage in activities to support and transform…

Education
12
Innovate Public Schools

Build the parent and community demand for world-class public schools, and to accelerate the growth of these schools, particularly for low-income students, students of colors, and students with special needs.

Philanthropy

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.

04the grantee network

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 20172025, 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
6/12
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CHICAGO CONNECTED — $1,099,500 · OtherCHICAGO CONNECTEDTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS — $419,438 · OtherTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOISUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON — $112,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON+3 more — $62,880 · OtherNEW LEADERS INC — $182,089 · EducationNEW LEADERS INCLEADERSHIP AND DESIGN — $131,250 · EducationLEADERSHIP AND DESIGNNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY — $98,300 · EducationNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITYAccelerate Institute — $78,280 · EducationAccelerate InstituteNational SAM Innovation Project Inc — $52,335 · EducationNational SAM Innovation Projec…MIKVA CHALLENGE GRANT FOUNDATION — $48,750 · EducationMIKVA CHALLENGE GRANT FOUNDATI…SURGE INSTITUTE — $22,500 · Education+2 more — $22,500 · EducationTHE MODERN CLASSROOMS PROJECT INC — $15,000 · Philanthropy
Other$1,693,818Education$636,004Philanthropy$15,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNEW LEADERS INC — $182,089 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetLEADERSHIP AND DESIGN — $131,250 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY — $98,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAccelerate Institute — $78,280 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetNational SAM Innovation Project Inc — $52,335 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetMIKVA CHALLENGE GRANT FOUNDATION — $48,750 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSURGE INSTITUTE — $22,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE MODERN CLASSROOMS PROJECT INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Human Schools Project Incorporated — $12,500 over 1y, 13% of budgetUniversity of Chicago — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetACERO CHARTER SCHOOLS INC — $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetILLINOIS PRINCIPALS ASSOCIATION — $5,880 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

Arie and Ida Crown MemorialIL13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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.

2025
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 4%
  • Northeastern University4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 16 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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