Illinois · Nonprofit
COUNSELORS OF REAL ESTATE
COUNSELORS OF REAL ESTATE (Illinois) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,350 to it, the largest being LOUISE & YT LUM FOUNDATION ($1,350). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.4M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $3k
- Net assets
- $1.7M
What Counselors of Real Estate does
Mission
Cre was established exclusively for real estate advisors who provide intelligent, unbiased, and trusted advice for a client or employer. The purpose of the organization is to serve as an information resource and to provide its members with opportunities for (see schedule o) professional development, knowledge sharing, and networking, all grounded in a culture of camaraderie.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The Counselors of Real Estate is the membership organization established exclusively for real estate advisors who provide intelligent, unbiased, and trusted advice for a client or employer. The organization bestows the prestigious cre designation on those invited to membership, providing access to a high-level professional community that elevates their experience, while expanding their professional reach.
The fall convention offers extraordinary educational opportunities, knowledge sharing, and professional interaction featuring educational sessions, roundtable discussions, business meetings and special events including real estate development tours, mini cre consulting corps assignments, and meetings of the counselors' board of directors, finance and executive committees.
The Counselors of Real Estate offers multiple communications to benefit its members and the real estate community at large. The "real estate issues" publication is cre's professional journal featuring incisive, dynamic articles that respond to current trends in the real estate industry. The journal is printed three times a year. The association also produces "the counselor" newsletter which showcases cre activities and industry events, along with an annual membership directory.
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense.
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 2023 to 2024, from $2.7M to $3.2M (+19%).
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: 2021 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
0% of COUNSELORS OF REAL ESTATE’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (61% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 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
Mary Fleischmann
CEO
Board chair
Anthony Dellapelle
Chair of the board
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $100.
From the IRS filings of COUNSELORS OF REAL ESTATE’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
COUNSELORS OF REAL ESTATE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 91% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
COUNSELORS OF REAL ESTATE draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Against its field
COUNSELORS OF REAL ESTATE receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $3k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,203 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like COUNSELORS OF REAL ESTATE
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.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Counselors of Real Estate Foundation · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COUNSELORS OF REAL ESTATE: 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 COUNSELORS OF REAL ESTATE?
- COUNSELORS OF REAL ESTATE (Illinois) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,350 to it, the largest being LOUISE & YT LUM FOUNDATION ($1,350). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COUNSELORS OF REAL ESTATE have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $3,350 in grants to COUNSELORS OF REAL ESTATE, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COUNSELORS OF REAL ESTATE?
- LOUISE & YT LUM FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,350 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COUNSELORS OF REAL ESTATE 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 3 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