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Cluster Tutoring Program

Cluster Tutoring Program (Illinois) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $156,789 to it, the largest being DONLEY FOUNDATION-UD DTD 12-8-86 ($60,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$161k
Funders on record
8
Grants received
$157k
Net assets
$229k
3/8 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 39%
01What it does

What Cluster Tutoring Program does

Mission

The mission of learning edge is to strive for more equity in education by providing chicago area students who live in underserved communities free one-to-one tutoring and academic enrichment opporunities enhanced by caring mentoring relations.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Cluster tutoring dba learning edge tutoring is a nonprofit community-based organization that provides free one-to-one tutoring to more than 100 k through 12 students who are primarily from the austin neighborhood of chicagos west side. The program was founded in 1990 by a cluster of local churches and community groups in response to the disturbing statistic that less than half of chicago public school students graduate from high school. Each tutor is matched with a student and the tutor-student pair works together during the school year to prepare the student for a successful academic career. Students and tutors work together during the school year on either a monday afternoon from 3 pm to 4 pm. Or a monday tuesday or thursday evening from 6:30 to 8:00 p.m. The program has a focus on literacy and offers all participants access to a reading specialis. Along with specialized reading assistance tutors provide homework help and the program provides all participants with academic enrichment opportunities. Activities that may be offered during the tutoring session include college and career preparation support managed by a staff member educational games in math and reading homework help…

    $220,224 spent$160,501 earned by the program
    100% of program spending
  2. Not described on the e-filed return.

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending
  3. Not described on the e-filed return.

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending
  4. Other program services, not described on the e-filed return.

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $220,224.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($158k) Expenses 100 ($145k) Net assets 100 ($174k)2021 Revenue 78 ($123k) Expenses 88 ($128k) Net assets 98 ($170k)2022 Revenue 91 ($143k) Expenses 110 ($159k) Net assets 88 ($153k)2023 Revenue 93 ($146k) Expenses 106 ($153k) Net assets 84 ($146k)2024 Revenue 195 ($308k) Expenses 116 ($168k) Net assets 165 ($286k)2025 Revenue 102 ($161k) Expenses 152 ($220k) Net assets 132 ($229k)
202020212022202320242025
Revenue (102)Expenses (152)Net assets (132)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 2023 to 2024, from $146k to $289k (+97%).

$174k
$170k
$153k
$146k
$289k
$229k
202020212022202320242025
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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

94% of Cluster Tutoring Program’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (55% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,349 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$13k
’20
−$4k
’21
−$16k
’22
−$7k
’23
$140k
’24
−$60k
’25
12
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.

20242025
Listed1214
Joined·+4
No longer listed·2
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $30k → $8k.

3 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% 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 Cluster Tutoring Program’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

Cluster Tutoring Program leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

57% 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 Cluster Tutoring Program.

38%
largest funder
95%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 51% · 2018 54% · 2019 100% · 2020 57% · 2021 57% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.

“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

25% of Cluster Tutoring Program's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 38% 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

Cluster Tutoring Program draws 52% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 3 states in all.

IL
WI
PA

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

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
Illinois out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $39k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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

Cluster Tutoring Program is better cushioned than half of the 1,526 employment nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−37% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve12.4mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)0% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,526 employment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like Cluster Tutoring Program

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

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

14
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

98%

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 Cluster Tutoring Program?
Cluster Tutoring Program (Illinois) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $156,789 to it, the largest being DONLEY FOUNDATION-UD DTD 12-8-86 ($60,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Cluster Tutoring Program have?
IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $156,789 in grants to Cluster Tutoring Program, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Cluster Tutoring Program?
DONLEY FOUNDATION-UD DTD 12-8-86 is the largest funder on record, with $60,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Cluster Tutoring Program 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 8 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