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DIVINITY SCHOOL ASSOCIATION UNIV OF CHICAGO

DIVINITY SCHOOL ASSOCIATION UNIV OF CHICAGO (Illinois) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $936,650 to it, the largest being Colman Family Foundation ($892,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$93k
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$937k
Net assets
$24k
2/4 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Divinity School Association Univ of Chicago does

Mission

Support student activities and provide student scholarships

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Funds given to University of Chicago for Student Scholarships as well as for upgrading the student activity area and other facilities related to student activities.

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($163k) Expenses 100 ($156k) Net assets 100 ($137k)2018 Revenue 107 ($175k) Expenses 108 ($169k) Net assets 105 ($143k)2019 Revenue 79 ($129k) Expenses 90 ($140k) Net assets 97 ($132k)2020 Revenue 66 ($108k) Expenses 103 ($160k) Net assets 58 ($80k)2021 Revenue 3 ($4k) Expenses 8 ($13k) Net assets 52 ($71k)2022 Revenue 40 ($65k) Expenses 53 ($82k) Net assets 40 ($55k)2023 Revenue 71 ($116k) Expenses 69 ($107k) Net assets 46 ($63k)2024 Revenue 56 ($92k) Expenses 68 ($106k) Net assets 36 ($49k)2025 Revenue 57 ($93k) Expenses 76 ($118k) Net assets 18 ($24k)
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Revenue (57)Expenses (76)Net assets (18)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 2019 to 2020, from $132k to $80k (−40%).

$137k
$143k
$132k
$80k
$71k
$55k
$63k
$49k
$24k
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

0% of DIVINITY SCHOOL ASSOCIATION UNIV OF CHICAGO’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (65% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 26,798 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$8k
’17
$6k
’18
−$11k
’19
−$52k
’20
−$8k
’21
−$17k
’22
$9k
’23
−$14k
’24
−$25k
’25
2.4
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.

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Listed444444443
Joined·+2+3+4+4+2+0+0+3
No longer listed·23442004
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $889k → $8k.

1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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 DIVINITY SCHOOL ASSOCIATION UNIV OF CHICAGO’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

DIVINITY SCHOOL ASSOCIATION UNIV OF CHICAGO leans on a few funders — its largest provides 95% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

95%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 75% — 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.

Where its funders are

DIVINITY SCHOOL ASSOCIATION UNIV OF CHICAGO draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 2 states in all.

IL
DE

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

’20
’23
Illinois out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $44k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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

DIVINITY SCHOOL ASSOCIATION UNIV OF CHICAGO's revenue fell 43% between 2017 and 2025.

Operating margin−27% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve2.4mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−7% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,277 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

Organizations like DIVINITY SCHOOL ASSOCIATION UNIV OF CHICAGO

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

0% of spending goes to programs.

Program 0%Management 100%Fundraising 0%

Governance

4
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds DIVINITY SCHOOL ASSOCIATION UNIV OF CHICAGO?
DIVINITY SCHOOL ASSOCIATION UNIV OF CHICAGO (Illinois) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $936,650 to it, the largest being Colman Family Foundation ($892,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does DIVINITY SCHOOL ASSOCIATION UNIV OF CHICAGO have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $936,650 in grants to DIVINITY SCHOOL ASSOCIATION UNIV OF CHICAGO, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of DIVINITY SCHOOL ASSOCIATION UNIV OF CHICAGO?
Colman Family Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $892,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like DIVINITY SCHOOL ASSOCIATION UNIV 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.

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 4 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