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CHICAGO INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION INC

CHICAGO INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION INC (Colorado) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $485,028 to it, the largest being INSTRUCTIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS FOUNDATION INC ($485,028). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$7.0M
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$485k
Net assets
$18M
0/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 4%
01What it does

What Chicago Instructional Technology Foundation Inc does

Mission

The corporation is organized and will be operated exclusively for "charitable, scientific and educational and "social welfare" purposes within the meaning of sections 501(c)(3) and 501(c)(4), respectively of the internal revenue code. To this end, the nonprofit shall undertake activities to: support the provision of quality and diverse instructional media content and capabilities to educators and students, including, but not limited to, data services and instructional video provided to accredited educational institutions and governmental organizations engaged in the formal education of enrolled students.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Voqal chicago participates in the education opportunity project (eop). The eop aims to measurably reduce educational opportunity gaps by providing capital and strategic advice to entrepreneurs and organizations working to improve educational outcomes for disadvantaged populations. Voqal nonprofits collectively spent $427,669, in the fiscal year 2024 program with voqal chicago contributing $302,605 to the program.

    $302,693 spent
    5% of program spending

  2. Voqal chicago is proud to be part of the voqal fellowship. The voqal fellowship is an investment in people as individuals and budding entrepreneurs; a talent and startup accelerator aimed at giving those often overlooked by traditional funders a chance to enact their visions. In fiscal year 2024, eight individuals were selected as fellows after a rigorous search process. Their projects focused on issues ranging from civic media to online tools. Voqal nonprofits collectively spent $384,103 in the fiscal year 2024 program with voqal chicago contributing $272,897 to the program.voqal chicago maintains a separate grantmaking program. In fiscal year 2024, voqal chicago made grants totaling $1,539,750 to 30 grantees. Expenses total $271,778.

    $2,261,540 spentof which $1,616,410 as grants
    39% of program spending

  3. On behalf of voqal chicago, mobile citizen places lte wireless broadband accounts with schools and nonprofits both locally in colorado and nationwide. The estimated number of lte wireless broadband accounts is based on voqal chicago's ownership percentage of all active accounts at fiscal year-end. The estimated market value, based on $50/month, of active accounts is more than $5.4 million. Voqal chicago provides schools in the chicago metro area with free and subsidized high-speed wireless broadband internet accounts. The schools are both public and private, servicing grades k-12. We estimate that the fair market value of these free and subsidized accounts is over $26,400 annually.

    $3,212,759 spent$4,017,503 earned by the program
    56% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,776,992.

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 ($4.0M) Expenses 100 ($1.7M) Net assets 100 ($14M)2018 Revenue 60 ($2.4M) Expenses 125 ($2.2M) Net assets 103 ($14M)2019 Revenue 54 ($2.2M) Expenses 113 ($2.0M) Net assets 104 ($14M)2020 Revenue 79 ($3.2M) Expenses 199 ($3.5M) Net assets 96 ($13M)2021 Revenue 98 ($3.9M) Expenses 172 ($3.0M) Net assets 121 ($17M)2022 Revenue 129 ($5.2M) Expenses 238 ($4.2M) Net assets 126 ($17M)2023 Revenue 284 ($11M) Expenses 635 ($11M) Net assets 120 ($16M)2024 Revenue 174 ($7.0M) Expenses 396 ($6.9M) Net assets 131 ($18M)
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Revenue (174)Expenses (396)Net assets (131)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 2020 to 2021, from $14M to $17M (+26%).

$14M
$15M
$14M
$14M
$17M
$18M
$17M
$18M
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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

0% of CHICAGO INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,377 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$2.3M
’17
$234k
’18
$173k
’19
−$295k
’20
$933k
’21
$1.0M
’22
$298k
’23
$56k
’24
1.7
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

Brenda Williams-Sears

CEO/president

Board chair

Daniel O'Neil

Chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020, and between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.

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Listed68778888
Joined·+2+0+0+1+2+0+0
No longer listed·0100200
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'23
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of CHICAGO INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION 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.

Where its funders are

100% of CHICAGO INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION INC's grant income comes from Colorado funders.

CO

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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

CHICAGO INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION INC has grown faster than half of the 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin1% · below the median
Months of reserve1.7mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)8% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Organizations like CHICAGO INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION INC

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 Colorado

Acsi Children's Education Fund Inc80%Scl Health Research Institute Inc80%Contexture80%The Attainment Network80%Charter Fund Inc D/B/A Charter School Growth Fund80%Institute of Evidence-Based Policymaking80%Educause79%Goodwill Industrial Services Corporation79%

Nationally

Educationquest Foundation Inc83%Expanded Schools Inc82%Foundation for Educational Services82%Village Academies Network Inc82%International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans Inc82%Easter Seals Metropolitan Chicago Inc82%Explore Schools Inc82%Learn To Be Foundation82%
05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

83% of spending goes to programs.

Program 83%Management 17%Fundraising 0%

Governance

4
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

IL

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHICAGO INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION INC: 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 INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION INC?
CHICAGO INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION INC (Colorado) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $485,028 to it, the largest being INSTRUCTIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS FOUNDATION INC ($485,028). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CHICAGO INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION INC have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $485,028 in grants to CHICAGO INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION INC.
Who is the largest funder of CHICAGO INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION INC?
INSTRUCTIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $485,028 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CHICAGO INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 1 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