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Chicago Training Center

Chicago Training Center (Illinois) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $883,836 to it, the largest being GALASHIELS FUND LTD ($275,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$236k
Funders on record
19
Grants received
$884k
Net assets
$358k
9/19 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Chicago Training Center does

Mission

Chicago Training Center uses the sport of competitive rowing to create opportunities for underserved Chicago youth to challenge themselves to achieve their athletic and academic potential. The CTC nurturing environment helps develop leadership and educational skills to advance life goals.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Rowing Programs for disadvantaged youth. Some highlights:14 regattas across 4 seasons, totaling 193 entries. For the first time in CTCs 19-year history, went to Nationals. For the past 5 years, we have had 100% graduation from high school and matriculationto college from our CTC athletes.

    $311,496 spent$26,414 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $311,496.

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 ($141k) Expenses 100 ($175k) Net assets 100 ($67k)2018 Revenue 105 ($148k) Expenses 77 ($134k) Net assets 120 ($81k)2019 Revenue 128 ($181k) Expenses 94 ($164k) Net assets 145 ($97k)2020 Revenue 58 ($82k) Expenses 50 ($87k) Net assets 138 ($93k)2021 Revenue 184 ($259k) Expenses 57 ($100k) Net assets 371 ($249k)2022 Revenue 538 ($757k) Expenses 139 ($243k) Net assets 1143 ($767k)2023 Revenue 128 ($180k) Expenses 224 ($392k) Net assets 827 ($555k)2024 Revenue 168 ($236k) Expenses 248 ($434k) Net assets 533 ($358k)
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Revenue (168)Expenses (248)Net assets (533)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 2021 to 2022, from $253k to $767k (+203%).

$68k
$82k
$98k
$93k
$253k
$767k
$573k
$367k
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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

Government-grant reliance: 2021 15% · 2022 8% · 2023 40% · 2024 29%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

89% of Chicago Training Center’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (18% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 16,168 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$34k
’17
$13k
’18
$17k
’19
−$5k
’20
$160k
’21
$514k
’22
−$212k
’23
−$197k
’24
7.6
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

Staci Brown

Executive Director

Board chair

Joe Byrd

Chairman

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

2021202220232024
Listed4388
Joined·+0+5+0
No longer listed·100
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $33k → $35k.

7 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% 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 Training Center’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 Training Center has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 31% 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

41% 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 Training Center.

31%
largest funder
57%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 76% · 2018 87% · 2019 100% · 2020 75% · 2021 81% · 2022 23% · 2023 43% — 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

22% of Chicago Training Center's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% 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

Chicago Training Center draws 61% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 6 states in all.

WA
IL
NY
CA
NC
FL

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

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’18
’20
’21
’22
’23
Illinois out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $255k 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 Training Center is better cushioned than half of the 15,520 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−84% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve7.6mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)8% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 15,520 recreation & sports nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like Chicago Training Center

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

78% of spending goes to programs.

Program 78%Management 18%Fundraising 5%

Governance

8
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

99%

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 Training Center?
Chicago Training Center (Illinois) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $883,836 to it, the largest being GALASHIELS FUND LTD ($275,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Chicago Training Center have?
IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $883,836 in grants to Chicago Training Center, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Chicago Training Center?
GALASHIELS FUND LTD is the largest funder on record, with $275,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Chicago Training Center 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 19 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