Illinois · Nonprofit
BERNARD ZELL ANSHE EMET DAY SCHOOL
BERNARD ZELL ANSHE EMET DAY SCHOOL (Illinois) receives grants from 61 organizations whose IRS filings report $42,534,775 to it, the largest being ZELL FAMILY FOUNDATION ($28,000,000). 43 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $19M
- Funders on record
- 61
- Grants received
- $43M
- Net assets
- $28M
What Bernard Zell Anshe Emet Day School does
Mission
To develop exceptional young people who put jewish values into action.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
From early childhood through middle school, Bernard Zell Anshe Emet Day School strives to inspire students to love learning through innovative teaching, hands-on exploration, and discovery. Rigorous general studies and comprehensive jewish learning are always wrapped in the warmth and values of a unique jewish community. In the 2024 - 2025 school year, 367 students were enrolled.
$17,511,158 spentof which $1,580,204 as grants$14,587,904 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $17,511,158.
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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $68M to $43M (−37%).
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: 2021 9% · 2022 0% · 2024 0% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
20% of BERNARD ZELL ANSHE EMET DAY SCHOOL’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).
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.
Board chair
Andrea Grostern
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 26 funders to 21 funders, grant income rose $1.7M → $26M.
16 of 61 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $7.0M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Bernard Zell Anshe Emet Day School Endowment Fund). These are real filings, and they are not money BERNARD ZELL ANSHE EMET DAY SCHOOL raised.
From the IRS filings of BERNARD ZELL ANSHE EMET DAY SCHOOL’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 61 funders by total. 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
BERNARD ZELL ANSHE EMET DAY SCHOOL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 66% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 58% · 2018 39% · 2019 29% · 2020 53% · 2021 33% · 2022 36% · 2023 94% — growing more concentrated.
“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
52% of BERNARD ZELL ANSHE EMET DAY SCHOOL'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
98% of BERNARD ZELL ANSHE EMET DAY SCHOOL's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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.
Against its field
BERNARD ZELL ANSHE EMET DAY SCHOOL's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,794 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like BERNARD ZELL ANSHE EMET DAY SCHOOL
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
80%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Bernard Zell Anshe Emet Day School Endowment Fund · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BERNARD ZELL ANSHE EMET DAY SCHOOL: 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 BERNARD ZELL ANSHE EMET DAY SCHOOL?
- BERNARD ZELL ANSHE EMET DAY SCHOOL (Illinois) receives grants from 61 organizations whose IRS filings report $42,534,775 to it, the largest being ZELL FAMILY FOUNDATION ($28,000,000). 43 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BERNARD ZELL ANSHE EMET DAY SCHOOL have?
- IRS filings report 61 organizations giving $42,534,775 in grants to BERNARD ZELL ANSHE EMET DAY SCHOOL, 43 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BERNARD ZELL ANSHE EMET DAY SCHOOL?
- ZELL FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $28,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BERNARD ZELL ANSHE EMET DAY SCHOOL 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.
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 61 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing