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Center for REALTOR Development Inc

Center for REALTOR Development Inc (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $132,815 to it, the largest being Realtor University ($132,815). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$11M
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$133k
Net assets
$22M
0/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%
01What it does

What Center for REALTOR Development Inc does

Mission

The mission of the Center for REALTOR Development (CRD) is to promote the interest of members by creating and presenting educational programs; encouraging high standards through the creation/awarding of designations, certifications and degrees in real estate; and working with the NAR for the enactment of laws to advance interests of members.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. The accredited buyer's representative (abr) designation program provides members with valuable real estate education to elevate skills and knowledge in the eyes of homebuyers and ongoing specialized information, programs and updates that help members to stay on top of issues and trends to successfully represent homebuyers. In addition, members receive marketing tools (including the homebuyers toolkit) to enhance services to clients and access to members only resources and publications.

  2. The senior real estate specialist designation program provides members with valuable real estate education to elevate skills and knowledge in the eyes of older-americans and with ongoing specialized information, programs and upgrades that help members stay on top of issues and trends to successfully represent older-americans. Also, several other educational elective options are offered as a part of the accredited buyer's representative designation program. These include courses designed to enhance member technical skills, management skills and real estate savvy.

  3. The short sales and foreclosures certification program educates members on how to help sellers maneuver the complexities of short sales as well as help buyers pursue short sale and foreclosure opportunities by providing proper tools and training that members can use to build their business for the long-term.

  4. The Pricing Strategy Advisor (PSA) certification program is specifically designed to enhance skills in pricing properties, creating CMAs, working with appraisers, and guiding clients through the anxieties and misperceptions they often have about home values. In this course students will learn to select appropriate comparables and make accurate adjustments to them, for use in developing home price opinions. Real estate professionals of all experience levels will enhance their skills of guiding sellers and buyers through the details of Comparative Market Analysis and the underlying pricing principles that inform them and interact effectively with appraisers.

  5. Introduction of the members edge live event. This one-day, high-energy conference is geared towards realtors who are eager to learn how cutting-edge technologies, the latest industry news, and national association of realtors (nar) resources can benefit their business and clients.

  6. Introduction of the REALTOR Broker's Summit and NAR's Broker's Edge live event. The REALTOR Broker Summit offers an incredible two days of learning, exclusive insights, and networking opportunities. Stay on the cutting edge by discovering new technologies and business strategies from industry leaders. NAR's Broker's Edge is a one day event focused on learning, exclusive insights and networking opportunities for brokers.

The 6 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $0.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($8.2M) Expenses 100 ($7.6M) Net assets 100 ($19M)2018 Revenue 100 ($8.1M) Expenses 102 ($7.7M) Net assets 98 ($19M)2019 Revenue 107 ($8.7M) Expenses 100 ($7.6M) Net assets 109 ($20M)2020 Revenue 125 ($10M) Expenses 110 ($8.4M) Net assets 122 ($23M)2021 Revenue 112 ($9.1M) Expenses 107 ($8.1M) Net assets 121 ($23M)2022 Revenue 105 ($8.6M) Expenses 103 ($7.8M) Net assets 119 ($22M)2023 Revenue 114 ($9.3M) Expenses 119 ($9.1M) Net assets 127 ($24M)2024 Revenue 135 ($11M) Expenses 177 ($13M) Net assets 116 ($22M)
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Revenue (135)Expenses (177)Net assets (116)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $23M to $26M (+10%).

$22M
$22M
$23M
$26M
$26M
$26M
$27M
$25M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$549k
’17
$383k
’18
$1.1M
’19
$1.9M
’20
$1.0M
’21
$784k
’22
$216k
’23
−$2.4M
’24
9.6
months of
reserve
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'20
total
Realtor Universityunclassified
$133k
funders
1

From the IRS filings of Center for REALTOR Development Inc’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.

Where its funders are

100% of Center for REALTOR Development Inc's grant income comes from Illinois funders.

IL

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like Center for REALTOR Development Inc

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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Governance

3
board members
0%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 23 related entities

  • National Association of Realtors · exempt
  • Leonard P Reaume Memorial Foundation · exempt
  • Nar Congressional Fund · exempt
  • Realtor University · exempt
  • Nar Fund · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds Center for REALTOR Development Inc?
Center for REALTOR Development Inc (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $132,815 to it, the largest being Realtor University ($132,815). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Center for REALTOR Development Inc have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $132,815 in grants to Center for REALTOR Development Inc.
Who is the largest funder of Center for REALTOR Development Inc?
Realtor University is the largest funder on record, with $132,815 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Center for REALTOR Development Inc 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 1 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