Illinois · Nonprofit
COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CHICAGO
COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CHICAGO (Illinois) receives grants from 82 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,450,172 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($6,660,929). 51 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $7.0M
- Funders on record
- 82
- Grants received
- $17M
- Net assets
- $13M
What Communities in Schools of Chicago does
Mission
Communities in Schools of Chicago (cis of chicago) connects social, health, and enrichment programs and services to chicago public school students. Cis of chicago helps schools address students' most pressing needs by training them to identify priorities, find outside partners, schedule programs, and evalulate, impact, and maintain partnerships.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
See schedule oCommunities in Schools of Chicago (cis of chicago) connects integrated services that address identified priorities to students in 239 chicago public schools; engaged 200 vetted community service partners in addressing the need of students in low resourced communities; and works directly with more than 83,000 students.typically, more than 95 percent of students in grades k through 11 directly supported by cis of chicago are promoted and 97 percent of the seniors cis of chicago supports graduate.
$5,710,185 spent$560,000 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $5,710,185.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $1.6M to $8.3M (+407%).
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: 2019 1% · 2020 2% · 2021 37% · 2022 0% · 2023 1% · 2024 7% · 2025 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Jane Mentzinger
Chief executive officer
Board chair
Mark Brady
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 43 funders, grant income rose $395k → $2.4M.
16 of 82 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 52% 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 COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CHICAGO’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 82 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
COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CHICAGO has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 38% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
65% 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 COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CHICAGO.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 22% · 2018 24% · 2019 64% · 2020 22% · 2021 12% · 2022 78% · 2023 22% — broadly stable.
“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
64% of COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CHICAGO's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
52% of COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CHICAGO's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $8.5M that is directly attributable, 80% of it comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $9.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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.
Organizations like COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CHICAGO
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
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
86%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CHICAGO?
- COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CHICAGO (Illinois) receives grants from 82 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,450,172 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($6,660,929). 51 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CHICAGO have?
- IRS filings report 82 organizations giving $17,450,172 in grants to COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CHICAGO, 51 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CHICAGO?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $6,660,929 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CHICAGO 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 82 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