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CHICAGO COLLEGIATE INC

CHICAGO COLLEGIATE INC (Illinois) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,274,395 to it, the largest being ILLINOIS NETWORK OF CHARTER SCHOOLS ($854,842). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$6.3M
Funders on record
28
Grants received
$2.3M
Net assets
$903k
16/28 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 7%
01What it does

What Chicago Collegiate Inc does

Mission

To equip all students in grades six through twelve with the academic skills, intellectual habits and character traits to succeed in the college of their choice, strenghten their communities and change the world.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Chicago collegiate charter school is a college-preparatory school in chicago's roseland community that promises to equip all students in grades five through twelve with the academic skills, intellectual habits and character traits to succeed in the college of their choice, strengthen their communities and change the world. At chicago collegiate, we work relentlessly to ensure 100% of our students earn acceptance into four-year colleges and universities and graduate within six years. We employ a unique, expanded middle school that starts at grade six, allowing us to address our students' growing literacy gap before they take on the demands of a true middle school curriculum.

    $5,241,356 spent$172,905 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $5,241,356.

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($3.8M) Expenses 100 ($3.8M) Net assets 100 ($553k)2018 Revenue 148 ($5.6M) Expenses 146 ($5.5M) Net assets 116 ($644k)2019 Revenue 146 ($5.5M) Expenses 159 ($6.0M) Net assets 30 ($164k)2020 Revenue 162 ($6.2M) Expenses 161 ($6.1M) Net assets 42 ($235k)2021 Revenue 182 ($6.9M) Expenses 168 ($6.4M) Net assets 141 ($779k)2022 Revenue 181 ($6.9M) Expenses 176 ($6.7M) Net assets 183 ($1.0M)2023 Revenue 157 ($6.0M) Expenses 170 ($6.5M) Net assets 97 ($535k)2024 Revenue 161 ($6.1M) Expenses 160 ($6.1M) Net assets 110 ($609k)2025 Revenue 166 ($6.3M) Expenses 158 ($6.0M) Net assets 163 ($903k)
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Revenue (166)Expenses (158)Net assets (163)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $1.9M to $2.4M (+30%).

$1.6M
$1.9M
$2.4M
$3.0M
$2.7M
$2.8M
$2.9M
$2.8M
$2.3M
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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
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 88% · 2018 87% · 2019 85% · 2020 87% · 2021 87% · 2022 90% · 2023 87% · 2024 91% · 2025 82%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

98% of CHICAGO COLLEGIATE INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,352 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$10k
’17
$90k
’18
−$480k
’19
$72k
’20
$544k
’21
$234k
’22
−$477k
’23
$74k
’24
$294k
’25
1.2
months of
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

Tracie L Sanlin

Chief executive & academic officer

Board chair

Reggie Moore

Board chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed131110131315151212
Joined·+3+4+3+4+4+4+3+2
No longer listed·55042462
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 9 funders to 6 funders, grant income fell $251k → $246k.

7 of 28 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% 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 CHICAGO COLLEGIATE 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

CHICAGO COLLEGIATE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 62%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

89% 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 COLLEGIATE INC.

38%
largest funder
62%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 86% · 2018 63% · 2019 63% · 2020 38% · 2021 50% · 2022 72% · 2023 68% — 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.

How long its funders stay

28% of CHICAGO COLLEGIATE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

81% of CHICAGO COLLEGIATE INC's grant income comes from Illinois funders.

IL
WI
MI
NY
CA
CO
MO
NC
GA
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Illinois out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $729k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

CHICAGO COLLEGIATE INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin5% · above the median
Months of reserve1.2mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)7% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like CHICAGO COLLEGIATE INC

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

87% of spending goes to programs.

Program 87%Management 10%Fundraising 3%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds CHICAGO COLLEGIATE INC?
CHICAGO COLLEGIATE INC (Illinois) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,274,395 to it, the largest being ILLINOIS NETWORK OF CHARTER SCHOOLS ($854,842). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CHICAGO COLLEGIATE INC have?
IRS filings report 28 organizations giving $2,274,395 in grants to CHICAGO COLLEGIATE INC, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CHICAGO COLLEGIATE INC?
ILLINOIS NETWORK OF CHARTER SCHOOLS is the largest funder on record, with $854,842 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CHICAGO COLLEGIATE 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 28 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