Illinois · Public charity
The Hope School
The hope learning academy serves children with intellectual/developmental disabilities and neurological disorders and their families by providing homes in which to grow, schools in which to learn, clinics in which to become healthier, research into emerging practices, and training for providers and parents.
- $3.9M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 14
- Grants FY2025
- 12
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $242,111
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $645,565
- Organizations funded a year
- 12 to 13
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $26M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations The Hope School funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 12 | $3.9M | 0% |
| FY2024 | 12 | $4.1M | 0% |
| FY2023 | 12 | $4.2M | 8% |
| FY2022 | 12 | $3.6M | 0% |
| FY2021 | 12 | $3.6M | 0% |
| FY2019 | 13 | $3.4M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois | $6,205,451 | 7 | n/a |
| Hope Clinical Care | $3,570,375 | 7 | 6% |
| Board of Trustees of Illinois State University | $2,751,604 | 7 | n/a |
| Easterseals Foundation of Central Illinois | $1,963,405 | 7 | 30% |
| Southern Illinois University- Carbondale | $1,868,334 | 7 | n/a |
| Trinity Services Inc | $1,423,124 | 7 | 0% |
| Kreider Services Inc | $1,387,468 | 7 | 1% |
| Easter Seals Metropolitan Chicago Inc | $1,293,283 | 7 | 0% |
| Eastern Illinois Universit | $667,784 | 3 | n/a |
| Ctf Illinois | $522,675 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 14 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois | $6,205,451 | 7 | n/a |
| Hope Clinical Care | $3,570,375 | 7 | 6% |
| Board of Trustees of Illinois State University | $2,751,604 | 7 | n/a |
| Easterseals Foundation of Central Illinois | $1,963,405 | 7 | 30% |
| Southern Illinois University- Carbondale | $1,868,334 | 7 | n/a |
| Trinity Services Inc | $1,423,124 | 7 | 0% |
| Kreider Services Inc | $1,387,468 | 7 | 1% |
| Easter Seals Metropolitan Chicago Inc | $1,293,283 | 7 | 0% |
| Eastern Illinois Universit | $667,784 | 3 | n/a |
| Ctf Illinois | $522,675 | 6 | 0% |
| Have Dreams | $436,374 | 7 | 4% |
| Answer Inc | $335,270 | 7 | 16% |
| Little Friends Inc | $211,431 | 4 | 0% |
| Grupo Salto | $67,093 | 3 | n/a |
Where it is load-bearing
The Hope School supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 9 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Coleman Foundation Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About The Hope School
- How much does The Hope School give?
- The Hope School reported 14 grants totaling $3,874,483 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 13 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does The Hope School fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (100%).
- Who are The Hope School's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois ($6.2M), Hope Clinical Care ($3.6M), Board of Trustees of Illinois State University ($2.8M).
- Does The Hope School fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Hope School?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Coleman Foundation Inc, The Chicago Community Trust, The Pfizer Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Hope School based?
- The Hope School is based in IL.
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