Illinois · Nonprofit
CENTER FOR SUCCESS FOR HIGH NEED SCHOOLS INC
CENTER FOR SUCCESS FOR HIGH NEED SCHOOLS INC (Illinois) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $284,631 to it, the largest being SCHMIDGALL FAMILY FOUNDATION ($94,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $84k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $285k
- Net assets
- $935
What Center for Success for High Need Schools Inc does
Mission
MISSION: The Center for Success puts collaborating institutions and partnering education stakeholders at the cutting edge of school reform by convening education partners to share best practices to recruit prepare and sustain talented and diverse teachers and leaders to serve low-income and marginalized students and high need schools as well as to provide opportunities and access to immersive engaging academic cultural and enrichment college bound activities and experiences that ensure the students in high need schools will succeed in post-secondary education. VISION: To prepare highest quality teachers for high need schools and provide an array of educational and social supports for students in these schools by developing and sustaining immersion experiences in education where college students aspiring to be teachers have real world experience in high need communities while simultaneously serving PK-12 students who aspire to be college bound.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Junior Senior Scholars and Promise Teacher Corp Junior Senior Scholars is the pipeline delivering increasing support as children grow from elementary school to middle school to high school and into college and it is supported by strong relationships and foundational components that engage parents and family and make them partners in the education enterprise. Primary grades engage in puppet shows and family receptions that build an awareness of college as an attainable goal.In grades 3-8 students engage in weekly after school enrichment experiences and a four week immersive summer camp. High school students also participate in after school enrichment experiences and the summer camp. They also have monthly visits to universities and cultural institutions and work with mentors to prepare them for college applications and success. The program is staffed by Promise Teachers college students preparing to teach in high need schools. This program serves approx 200 students annually.
$82,247 spent87% of program spendingProject LEAD Leaders in Education Advocating for Diversity Equity and Inclusion is a collaborative endeavor that brings faculty and diverse students from multiple campuses together to build a structure and toolbox to: Identify and explore the demographics of the teacher and student pipeline and collaborate to improve the numbers alignment so that more students across Illinois experience a diverse teacher and teachers who are allies supporting diversity equity and inclusion; Understand and celebrate the value of a diverse pool of teacher candidates to all students teachers schools and districts; Celebrate the profession of teaching & inspire others to celebrate and elevate teaching; Increase and support the number of talented and diverse candidates of color who become teachers and the significant contributions they make to the profession; Network & collaborate with approx 400 faculty and students across each campus and from campus to campus and along with education stakeholders.
$11,250 spent12% of program spendingCenter Partnerships and Task Forces Center Partnership and Task Force meetings which convene more than 40 deans chairs directors and education faculty as well as PK-12 administrators and teachers and leading educators to explore key issues in preparation practice teaching learning and leadership. Our current work includes advocating for equity and diversity implementing culturally responsive practices growing teacher leadership and effecting rigorous recruitment clinical preparation and retention policies and practices.The task forces are: Teacher Leader Research Group the Writing Collective Culturally Responsive Teacher and Leader Standards Program Assessment ,Accountability Accreditation and Policy Task Force and the Professional Development Network.The partnerships and task forces serve approximately 300 college faculty PK-12 teachers and leaders and preservice teachers.
$1,458 spent2% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $94,955.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2022 to 2023, from $34k to $15k (−55%).
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.
94% of CENTER FOR SUCCESS FOR HIGH NEED SCHOOLS INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Janis Fitzsimmons
President and CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $33k → $53k.
3 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 41% 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 CENTER FOR SUCCESS FOR HIGH NEED SCHOOLS 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.
How concentrated its funding is
CENTER FOR SUCCESS FOR HIGH NEED SCHOOLS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
41% 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 CENTER FOR SUCCESS FOR HIGH NEED SCHOOLS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 55% · 2022 27% · 2023 38% — diversifying over time.
“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.
Where its funders are
CENTER FOR SUCCESS FOR HIGH NEED SCHOOLS INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $116k 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.
Against its field
CENTER FOR SUCCESS FOR HIGH NEED SCHOOLS INC has grown faster than half of the 17,277 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,277 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like CENTER FOR SUCCESS FOR HIGH NEED SCHOOLS 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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CENTER FOR SUCCESS FOR HIGH NEED SCHOOLS INC: 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 CENTER FOR SUCCESS FOR HIGH NEED SCHOOLS INC?
- CENTER FOR SUCCESS FOR HIGH NEED SCHOOLS INC (Illinois) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $284,631 to it, the largest being SCHMIDGALL FAMILY FOUNDATION ($94,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CENTER FOR SUCCESS FOR HIGH NEED SCHOOLS INC have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $284,631 in grants to CENTER FOR SUCCESS FOR HIGH NEED SCHOOLS INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CENTER FOR SUCCESS FOR HIGH NEED SCHOOLS INC?
- SCHMIDGALL FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $94,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CENTER FOR SUCCESS FOR HIGH NEED SCHOOLS 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.
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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 2021–2025), and the filings of 5 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