Illinois · Nonprofit
COLLABORATIVE FOR ACADEMIC SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL LEARNING
COLLABORATIVE FOR ACADEMIC SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL LEARNING (Illinois) receives grants from 52 organizations whose IRS filings report $36,030,833 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($10,000,000). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $7.1M
- Funders on record
- 52
- Grants received
- $36M
- Net assets
- $8.5M
What Collaborative for Academic Social and Emotional Learning does
Mission
Casel is a trusted source for knowledge about high-quality, evidence-based social and emotional learning (sel). Our mission is to help make evidence-based social and emotional learning (sel) an integral part of education from preschool to high school.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
District partnerships: support high-quality implementation: casel partnerships and resources support high-quality implementation in schools and districts. In 2011, casel launched the collaborating districts initiative (cdi), now called community network partners (cnp) as a national partnership with urban, suburban, and rural school districts across the country to support systemic and sustainable high-quality sel implementation, and ultimately to national scale through the sharing of practical knowledge about sel implementation. The cnp focused on sel across all district, school, and classroom activities and in partnership with parents and communities. The impact of this work is demonstrated by promising school and student outcomes such as improvements in academic performance, student engagement and behavior, school climate, and social and emotional competence. Casel works with nearly 40 school districts. In recent years, casel launched the sel fellows program cultivating a thriving community of sel leaders. We share learnings from our districts broadly through field-tested resources and tools. Casel's growing suite of resources continues to be accessed globally as a go-to resource…
$3,872,727 spent$1,273,518 earned by the program51% of program spendingSel exchange: since 2019, casel has hosted an annual conference on sel. The sel exchange is a unique international forum for those who are committed to creating caring, productive, and equitable schools and communities that develop the whole child and ensure that all students can thrive. With demand for sel at an all-time high, the sel exchange is the time to come together, share what we know, and anchor ourselves in advancing high-quality research, implementation practice, and policies. Casel hosted the 2024 social and emotional learning exchange in chicago, november 12-14, 2024. The theme was accelerate: academic thriving and lifelong learning, focused on the connection between sel and academics. More than 1,900 registered representing more than 270 schools, 47 u.s. States, and 36 countries. Altogether, our learning and work will reach 17.7 million students.
$2,141,129 spent$2,141,049 earned by the program28% of program spendingState partnerships: in 2016, casel launched the collaborating states initiative (csi), a collaborative partnership with five states across the country to support the broader scale of quality sel. Now working with more than 40 states representing more than 90% of districts, schools, teachers, and students in the us, there is potential for much greater adoption nationwide. The csi regularly convenes its communities of practice to support partner states. We also convene expert advisors and national education organizations to support this initiative. Casel's collection of 125 resources helps states create high-quality sel policies and guidelines. Resources include tools to help integrate sel with state and district priorities; frameworks for understanding and organizing sel; guidance documents; and professional development modules.
$1,519,799 spent20% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $7,533,655.
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.
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 $12M to $19M (+63%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 3% · 2018 3% · 2019 0% · 2020 0% · 2021 11% · 2022 5% · 2023 0% · 2024 0% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
46% of COLLABORATIVE FOR ACADEMIC SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL LEARNING’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
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
Aaliyah Samuel
CEO
Board chair
Timothy Shriver
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 19 funders, grant income rose $2.2M → $4.3M.
14 of 52 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 45% 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 COLLABORATIVE FOR ACADEMIC SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL LEARNING’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 52 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
COLLABORATIVE FOR ACADEMIC SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL LEARNING has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% 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
51% 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 COLLABORATIVE FOR ACADEMIC SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL LEARNING.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 48% · 2018 39% · 2019 39% · 2020 37% · 2021 27% · 2022 74% · 2023 32% — 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
35% of COLLABORATIVE FOR ACADEMIC SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL LEARNING's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% give in more than one year at all.
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
COLLABORATIVE FOR ACADEMIC SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL LEARNING draws 89% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 10 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $16M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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.
Against its field
COLLABORATIVE FOR ACADEMIC SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL LEARNING is better cushioned than half of the 1,064 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,064 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like COLLABORATIVE FOR ACADEMIC SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL LEARNING
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.
Where the money goes
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
77%
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds COLLABORATIVE FOR ACADEMIC SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL LEARNING?
- COLLABORATIVE FOR ACADEMIC SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL LEARNING (Illinois) receives grants from 52 organizations whose IRS filings report $36,030,833 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($10,000,000). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COLLABORATIVE FOR ACADEMIC SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL LEARNING have?
- IRS filings report 52 organizations giving $36,030,833 in grants to COLLABORATIVE FOR ACADEMIC SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL LEARNING, 27 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COLLABORATIVE FOR ACADEMIC SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL LEARNING?
- The Chicago Community Trust is the largest funder on record, with $10,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COLLABORATIVE FOR ACADEMIC SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL LEARNING 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 52 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