Illinois · Nonprofit
CHICAGO EDUCATION ADVOCACY COOPERATIVE
CHICAGO EDUCATION ADVOCACY COOPERATIVE (Illinois) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,644 to it, the largest being THE JOYCE FOUNDATION ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $19k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $16k
- Net assets
- $383
What Chicago Education Advocacy Cooperative does
Mission
Chieac aims to ensure equitable access to high-quality education for all students in chicago through the supply of support services directed at creating a safe place for students to learn.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
We provided bilingual enrollment support for 18 newly arrived CPS students in South Chicago, achieving 100% school placement within appropriate grade levels, while delivering weekly trauma-informed wellness workshops reaching over 45 youth to support their transition into CPS through culturally grounded care. We reduced access barriers by distributing free CTA passes to 32 students and securing laptops and mobile hotspots for 28 learners across City Colleges of Chicago, CPS night school, and alternative programs. We offered one-on-one college access support to 16 undocumented high school students, mentored 14 college students through the ELEVATE Fellowship, and supported an additional cohort of 12 South Side college students with stipends, mentorship, and wellness check-ins to promote persistence. We strengthened family and community engagement by providing Spanish-language literacy support to 15 parents, hosting weekly drop-in hours assisting over 60 CPS families, and convening five town halls with more than 120 participants. We delivered targeted tutoring to over 35 students, facilitated IEP advocacy for 11 CPS students, provided bilingual mental health referrals to 25 college…
$18,499 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $18,499.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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.
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.
65% of CHICAGO EDUCATION ADVOCACY COOPERATIVE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Benjamin Drury
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $14 → $46.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 EDUCATION ADVOCACY COOPERATIVE’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 EDUCATION ADVOCACY COOPERATIVE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 64% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 98% · 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
94% of CHICAGO EDUCATION ADVOCACY COOPERATIVE's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $144 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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 EDUCATION ADVOCACY COOPERATIVE has grown faster than three-quarters 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 CHICAGO EDUCATION ADVOCACY COOPERATIVE
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 CHICAGO EDUCATION ADVOCACY COOPERATIVE: 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 EDUCATION ADVOCACY COOPERATIVE?
- CHICAGO EDUCATION ADVOCACY COOPERATIVE (Illinois) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,644 to it, the largest being THE JOYCE FOUNDATION ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHICAGO EDUCATION ADVOCACY COOPERATIVE have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $15,644 in grants to CHICAGO EDUCATION ADVOCACY COOPERATIVE, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHICAGO EDUCATION ADVOCACY COOPERATIVE?
- THE JOYCE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHICAGO EDUCATION ADVOCACY COOPERATIVE 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 4 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