Illinois · Nonprofit
CHICAGO CHARTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION
CHICAGO CHARTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION (Illinois) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $750,697 to it, the largest being ARIE AND IDA CROWN MEMORIAL ($150,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $134M
- Funders on record
- 24
- Grants received
- $751k
- Net assets
- $52M
What Chicago Charter School Foundation does
Mission
Our vibrant network of diverse chicago charter schools enables students to thrive every day, puts them on a path to success in college and life, and empowers entrepreneurial educators to pursue excellence through innovation.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Provide educational opportunities for youth through the operation of 13 campus locations serving 6,847 students in grades kindergarten through twelve during fy june 30, 2025. Cics' vibrant hub of diverse chicago charter schools enables students to thrive every day, puts them on a path to success in college and life, and empowers entrepreneurial educators to pursue excellence through innovation.
$107,857,990 spentof which $1,336,014 as grants$6,528,143 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $107,857,990.
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 2020 to 2021, from $104M to $115M (+11%).
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 97% · 2018 93% · 2019 91% · 2020 93% · 2021 95% · 2022 93% · 2023 94% · 2024 93% · 2025 92%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of CHICAGO CHARTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (14% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Chief executive
Elizabeth Delaney Purvis
Chief executive officer
Board chair
Evan Sharp
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income fell $135k → $10k.
7 of 24 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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: $95k from 3 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Chicago Community Trust). These are real filings, and they are not money CHICAGO CHARTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of CHICAGO CHARTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 23 of 24 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
CHICAGO CHARTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
64% 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 CHICAGO CHARTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 81% · 2018 65% · 2019 70% · 2020 51% · 2021 39% · 2022 54% · 2023 84% — 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
8% of CHICAGO CHARTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 33% 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
CHICAGO CHARTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION draws 53% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $107k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
CHICAGO CHARTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION's revenue grew 46% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 679 education nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding CHICAGO CHARTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.7M on record.
- Department of Education$1.7M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like CHICAGO CHARTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION
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
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Chicago International Charter School Back-Office Services · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHICAGO CHARTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION: 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 CHICAGO CHARTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION?
- CHICAGO CHARTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION (Illinois) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $750,697 to it, the largest being ARIE AND IDA CROWN MEMORIAL ($150,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHICAGO CHARTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $750,697 in grants to CHICAGO CHARTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHICAGO CHARTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION?
- ARIE AND IDA CROWN MEMORIAL is the largest funder on record, with $150,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHICAGO CHARTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION 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 24 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