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Chicago Heightening Opportunity and Potential for

Chicago Heightening Opportunity and Potential for (Illinois) receives grants from 62 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,902,354 to it, the largest being A Better Chicago ($995,000). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$1.4M
Funders on record
62
Grants received
$3.9M
Net assets
$1.5M
24/62 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 63%
01What it does

What Chicago Heightening Opportunity and Potential for does

Mission

Providing academic support to children experiencing homelessness in Chicago and providing resources and services to families experiencing homelessness in Chicago.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Shelter-based after-school program for homeless children with a focus on literacy. Academic support K-5. Academic support LL 6-9. Family engagement.

    $1,176,367 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,176,367.

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 ($382k) Expenses 100 ($277k) Net assets 100 ($291k)2018 Revenue 144 ($552k) Expenses 179 ($496k) Net assets 119 ($348k)2019 Revenue 186 ($710k) Expenses 198 ($547k) Net assets 175 ($511k)2020 Revenue 278 ($1.1M) Expenses 280 ($775k) Net assets 274 ($799k)2021 Revenue 319 ($1.2M) Expenses 311 ($859k) Net assets 398 ($1.2M)2022 Revenue 328 ($1.3M) Expenses 405 ($1.1M) Net assets 444 ($1.3M)2023 Revenue 360 ($1.4M) Expenses 426 ($1.2M) Net assets 512 ($1.5M)2024 Revenue 376 ($1.4M) Expenses 517 ($1.4M) Net assets 515 ($1.5M)
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Revenue (376)Expenses (517)Net assets (515)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 2019 to 2020, from $523k to $876k (+68%).

$294k
$353k
$523k
$876k
$1.2M
$1.3M
$1.5M
$1.6M
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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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of Chicago Heightening Opportunity and Potential for’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,360 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$106k
’17
$57k
’18
$163k
’19
$288k
’20
$360k
’21
$133k
’22
$199k
’23
$9k
’24
4.7
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

Rita Kahn

Executive Director

Board chair

Andrew Flynn

Board President

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.

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Listed1216161514131212
Joined·+7+0+3+3+2+3+1
No longer listed·3044341
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 21 funders, grant income rose $27k → $870k.

10 of 62 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% 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 Heightening Opportunity and Potential for’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 62 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 Heightening Opportunity and Potential for has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

68% 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 Heightening Opportunity and Potential for.

25%
largest funder
58%
top three
~8
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 71% · 2018 34% · 2019 34% · 2020 27% · 2021 38% · 2022 41% · 2023 39% — 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 Heightening Opportunity and Potential for's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 39% give in more than one year at all.

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

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

92% of Chicago Heightening Opportunity and Potential for's grant income comes from Illinois funders.

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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. $1.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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 Heightening Opportunity and Potential for has grown faster than three-quarters of the 11,761 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin1% · below the median
Months of reserve4.7mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)21% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,761 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Organizations like Chicago Heightening Opportunity and Potential for

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

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

82% of spending goes to programs.

Program 82%Management 11%Fundraising 6%

Governance

11
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

66%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

IL

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Questions and answers

Who funds Chicago Heightening Opportunity and Potential for?
Chicago Heightening Opportunity and Potential for (Illinois) receives grants from 62 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,902,354 to it, the largest being A Better Chicago ($995,000). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Chicago Heightening Opportunity and Potential for have?
IRS filings report 62 organizations giving $3,902,354 in grants to Chicago Heightening Opportunity and Potential for, 24 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Chicago Heightening Opportunity and Potential for?
A Better Chicago is the largest funder on record, with $995,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Chicago Heightening Opportunity and Potential for 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 62 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing