Illinois · Nonprofit
CENTER RESOURCES FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING
CENTER RESOURCES FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING (Illinois) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,776,467 to it, the largest being United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc ($1,023,120). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
CENTER RESOURCES FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 3 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,681 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Finnegan Family Foundationshared funders
- Wish You Well Foundationportfolio match
- Proliteracy Worldwideportfolio match
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.
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 77% · 2018 77% · 2019 77% · 2020 79% · 2024 80% · 2025 74%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
77% of CENTER RESOURCES FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than 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 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $150k → $763k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 28% 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 RESOURCES FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING’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 RESOURCES FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
90% 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 RESOURCES FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 66% — 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
94% of CENTER RESOURCES FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $500k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 4 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Finnegan Family Foundationshared fundersIL · backs 36 organizations that share your funders
- Wish You Well Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Proliteracy Worldwideportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Wisconsin Literacy Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Guy a & N Kay Arboit Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Special Kids Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bright Promises Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Chicago Teachers Union Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Pajeau Children's Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Kids First Chicago for Educationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Jerome Mirza Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bolhous Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like CENTER RESOURCES FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CENTER RESOURCES FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds CENTER RESOURCES FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING?
- CENTER RESOURCES FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING (Illinois) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,776,467 to it, the largest being United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc ($1,023,120). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CENTER RESOURCES FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $1,776,467 in grants to CENTER RESOURCES FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CENTER RESOURCES FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING?
- United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc is the largest funder on record, with $1,023,120 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CENTER RESOURCES FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING 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 4funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing