· Public charity
Illinois Network of Charter Schools
The ILLINOIS NETWORK OF CHARTER SCHOOLS (incs) advocates for the improvement of public education by leveraging the charter school model as a catalyst to transform lives and communities.
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 5 grants below total $1,678,590 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,717,091 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $38,501 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
- $50k–250k3 grants · $472k
- $250k+2 grants · $1.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHICAGO COLLEGIATE CHARTER SCHOOL | $687,522 |
| ART IN MOTION | $519,074 |
| CONCEPT SCHOOLS INC | $247,617 |
| INTRINSIC SCHOOLS | $121,082 |
| GREAT LAKES ACADEMY INC | $103,295 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY22–22, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those 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.
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 — 3 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 2 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, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $224k 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
- CSCONCEPT SCHOOLS NFP2× · 2023–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +3%
- CCCHICAGO COLLEGIATE INC2× · 2023–2024 · $855k · revenue +5%
- AIArt In Motion2× · 2023–2024 · $619k · revenue +35%
Funded once
- RURush University Medical Centergraduatedone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +30%
- 5I50CAN INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +841%
- CSCHARTER SCHOOLS USAone grant, 2017 · $8k
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.
To create a school that dramatically transforms the lives of k-8 students and prepares them for success in college and in life through: the delivery of a rigorous and personalized academic program, a focus on holistic education, and the…
The Lycee Francais de Chicago, driven by our core values of respect, responsibility and the joy of learning, empowers students to grow into active global citizens.
The team at kipp chicago schools is guided by a simple, yet powerful mission: to create a network of excellent schools in chicago that teach our students the character and academic skills necessary to succeed in college and beyond, and to…
The illinois network of charter schools (incs) advocates for the improvement of public education by leveraging the charter school model as a catalyst to transform lives and communities.
We consider ourselves a miracle institution full of inspiration and absolute faith in Gods hands. We do so daily in teaching our students, interacting with our diverse parent body and our location in Chicago which makes us ever more…
To provide educational and community opportunities to children in grades kindergarten through grade eight in the city of chicago.
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.
Our vibrant network of diverse chicago charter schools enables students to thrive every day, puts them on a path to success in college and life, and empowers entrepreneurial educators to pursue excellence through innovation.
To provide a comprehensive, high quality, college preparatory education that results in graduates succeeding in college. The operation of a network of public Charter College Prep High Schools.
The chicago high school for the arts (chiarts) develops the next generation of diverse, artistically promising scholar-artists through intensive pre-professional training in the arts, combined with a comprehensive college preparatory…
Providence englewood school corporation is a pre-kindergarten through 8th grade charter school serving the englewood community. our mission is to prepare our students for responsible citizenship and a successful high school career leading…
To prepare students for college by creating an effective learning community of higher standards and expectations with a rigorous curriculum focusing on science, math and technology.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Great Lakes Academy Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hadiya's Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 19 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 CONCEPT SCHOOLS NFP ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO COLLEGIATE INC ↗
- Who funds Art In Motion ↗
- Who funds INTRINSIC SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds GREAT LAKES ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds Rush University Medical Center ↗
- Who funds 50CAN INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO CITY COUNCIL LATINO CAUCUS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Illinois Legislative Black Caucus Foundation ↗
- Who funds LEADERSHIP GREATER CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds Hadiya's Foundation ↗
- Who funds Lawndale Educational and Regional Network Charter School ↗
- Who funds The University of Chicago Charter School Corporation ↗
- Who funds PEORIA CHARTER SCHOOL INITIATIVE CO NFP ↗
- Who funds PERSPECTIVES CHARTER SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds ACADEMY FOR GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds LEGAL PREP CHARTER ACADEMIES ↗
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: The Chicago Community Trust · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · Tides Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Illinois Network of Charter Schools 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.
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.