Illinois · Nonprofit
CHANNINGS CHILDCARE ACADEMY
CHANNINGS CHILDCARE ACADEMY (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $211,305 to it, the largest being Carole Robertson Center for Learning ($203,305). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $86k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $211k
- Net assets
- $367k
What Channings Childcare Academy does
Mission
Early childhood education
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Channings academy provides early care and education to youth frompre-kindergarten through third grade. Our focus is to provide a stimulating early care and education experience
$0 spentChannings academy continued its educational mission while undertaking facility development activities to expand services for children and families.
$0 spentActivities included planning, design, & capital improvement activities for a new community space that will support future educational and arts & cultural programs.
$0 spent
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.
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 2024 to 2025, from $288k to $367k (+27%).
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.
100% of CHANNINGS CHILDCARE ACADEMY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 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.
Chief executive
Ruth Kimble
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $8k → $125k.
From the IRS filings of CHANNINGS CHILDCARE ACADEMY’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
CHANNINGS CHILDCARE ACADEMY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 96% of grant income and the top three 100%; 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 CHANNINGS CHILDCARE ACADEMY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 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.
Where its funders are
100% of CHANNINGS CHILDCARE ACADEMY's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Against its field
CHANNINGS CHILDCARE ACADEMY has grown faster than half of the 9,787 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,787 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like CHANNINGS CHILDCARE ACADEMY
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 CHANNINGS CHILDCARE ACADEMY: 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 CHANNINGS CHILDCARE ACADEMY?
- CHANNINGS CHILDCARE ACADEMY (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $211,305 to it, the largest being Carole Robertson Center for Learning ($203,305). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHANNINGS CHILDCARE ACADEMY have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $211,305 in grants to CHANNINGS CHILDCARE ACADEMY, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHANNINGS CHILDCARE ACADEMY?
- Carole Robertson Center for Learning is the largest funder on record, with $203,305 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHANNINGS CHILDCARE ACADEMY 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 2 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