Illinois · Nonprofit
Cristo Rey St Martin College Prep
Cristo Rey St Martin College Prep (Illinois) receives grants from 65 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,719,220 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($5,418,300). 50 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $7.9M
- Funders on record
- 65
- Grants received
- $24M
- Net assets
- $22M
What Cristo Rey St Martin College Prep does
Mission
To educate young people of limited economic means to become men and women of faith, purpose, and service.Through a rigorous college preparatory curriculum, integrated with relevant work-study experience and a campus ministry program, students graduate ready to succeed in college and life.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
During FY25, CRSM provided a rigorous college-preparatory education integrated with a four-year Corporate Work Study Program and a comprehensive campus ministry program. Students participated in academic instruction aligned to college readiness standards, gained professional work experience through corporate partnerships, and engaged in faith formation and service opportunities. Through this integrated model, CRSM supported students academic achievement, professional skill development, and personal growth, preparing graduates for success in college, career, and life.
$5,469,783 spent$858,359 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $5,469,783.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 17 funders to 35 funders, grant income rose $2.3M → $4.2M.
17 of 65 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 42% 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 Cristo Rey St Martin College Prep’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 65 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
Cristo Rey St Martin College Prep has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% 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
45% 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 Cristo Rey St Martin College Prep.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 66% · 2018 40% · 2019 39% · 2020 33% · 2021 38% · 2022 45% · 2023 35% — 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
60% of Cristo Rey St Martin College Prep's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 77% 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
72% of Cristo Rey St Martin College Prep's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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
Cristo Rey St Martin College Prep holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 9,615 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,615 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Cristo Rey St Martin College Prep
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
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Crsm Work Study Inc · exempt
- CRSM Support Corp · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Cristo Rey St Martin College Prep: 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 Cristo Rey St Martin College Prep?
- Cristo Rey St Martin College Prep (Illinois) receives grants from 65 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,719,220 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($5,418,300). 50 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Cristo Rey St Martin College Prep have?
- IRS filings report 65 organizations giving $23,719,220 in grants to Cristo Rey St Martin College Prep, 50 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Cristo Rey St Martin College Prep?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $5,418,300 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Cristo Rey St Martin College Prep 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 2025–2025), and the filings of 65 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