Illinois · Nonprofit
ALTERNATIVE SCHOOLS NETWORK
ALTERNATIVE SCHOOLS NETWORK (Illinois) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,304,627 to it, the largest being CHICAGO COOK WORKFORCE PARTNERSHIP ($8,339,704). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $22M
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $9.3M
- Net assets
- $-201037
What Alternative Schools Network does
Mission
Asn is committed to the development of quality educational programs that engage urban children, youths, and adults with well-rounded academic programs leading to college entrance and/or career paths, which foster economic independence and social responsibility in the 21st century.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Asn, in collaboration with the illinois department of children and family services ("idcfs"), has developed a program with 15 community-based alternative high schools to provide opportunities for youths who are out of school and do not have a high school diploma or general educational development ("ged") equivalent. The youth scholars, skills, and service program ("ys3") directory has been developed for professionals who work with youths from ages 16 through 21 in the care of the idcfs, residing in such placements as traditional foster care, home of a relative, independent living, or group home. See schedule o for additional information.this program provides chicago-area youths who are in the care of the idcfs, are not enrolled in an educational or vocational program, and do not have a high school diploma or ged with the opportunity and resources to attain their educational goals and become independent and productive adults. Integral components of ys3 are student mentoring, college placement, and support.
$3,859,022 spent$1,547 earned by the program18% of program spendingThe reenrolled student program ("rsp") is a collaboration between asn and the illinois community college board ("iccb"). The rsp provides expanded academic and wraparound services to over 450 out-of-school teens annually through programs centered in community-based alternative high schools across chicago. The rsp focuses on getting students reenrolled and supporting them in every way possible as they attain their high school diplomas and continue their studies at a college level or place into a job.
$3,889,439 spent$1,436 earned by the program18% of program spendingYouth experiencing success provides academic and mentoring and career pathway services to out-of-school youths. 11 schools participate in the program, which serves over 200 students citywide. Students are enrolled and linked to an on-site mentor, who provides them with counseling, assessment, support services, and advocacy. The goal of the program is for each student to obtain academic success, high school graduation, and future planning and achievement. This program is funded by the chicago cook workforce partnership.
$850,170 spent$357 earned by the program4% of program spendingOther programs include the title xx/compass counseling program, the fostering learning program, added chance, the twenty-first century community learning centers, the critical health network, the chicago youth service corps, asnews, after school matters, one summer chicago, the opportunity time program, the illinois youth investment program, international youth foundation, scan, youth engage, the laureus sports mentorship program, the mayor's mentoring initiative, and the asn preparatory institute.
$12,457,028 spent$5,114 earned by the program59% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $21,055,659.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $4.0M to $6.9M (+74%).
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: 2017 79% · 2018 84% · 2019 97% · 2020 97% · 2021 96% · 2022 99% · 2023 95% · 2024 100% · 2025 99%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $1.4M → $899k.
5 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of ALTERNATIVE SCHOOLS NETWORK’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
ALTERNATIVE SCHOOLS NETWORK leans on a few funders — its largest provides 90% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 ALTERNATIVE SCHOOLS NETWORK.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 99% · 2018 97% · 2019 92% · 2020 45% · 2021 83% · 2022 75% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
29% of ALTERNATIVE SCHOOLS NETWORK's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% 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
92% of ALTERNATIVE SCHOOLS NETWORK's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $236k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
Organizations like ALTERNATIVE SCHOOLS NETWORK
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In Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ALTERNATIVE SCHOOLS NETWORK: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ALTERNATIVE SCHOOLS NETWORK?
- ALTERNATIVE SCHOOLS NETWORK (Illinois) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,304,627 to it, the largest being CHICAGO COOK WORKFORCE PARTNERSHIP ($8,339,704). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ALTERNATIVE SCHOOLS NETWORK have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $9,304,627 in grants to ALTERNATIVE SCHOOLS NETWORK, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ALTERNATIVE SCHOOLS NETWORK?
- CHICAGO COOK WORKFORCE PARTNERSHIP is the largest funder on record, with $8,339,704 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ALTERNATIVE SCHOOLS NETWORK 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 10 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing