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Elementry School District No 181 Foundation

Elementry School District No 181 Foundation (Illinois) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $26,187 to it, the largest being MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC ($10,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$100k
Funders on record
5
Grants received
$26k
Net assets
$107k
2/5 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 13%
01What it does

What Elementry School District No 181 Foundation does

Mission

To inspire community involvement, pride, and support for the exceptional education provided to all district 181 students.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Funding for district-wide student educational programs,events and speakers for students, teachers and parents.

    $46,693 spentof which $46,693 as grants
    67% of program spending
  2. Professional development to support district 181s current strategic goals for the curriculum

    $7,500 spentof which $7,500 as grants
    11% of program spending
  3. Teacher grant funding for exceptional educationprograms in the classroom.

    $15,000 spentof which $15,000 as grants
    22% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $69,193.

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 ($44k) Expenses 100 ($59k) Net assets 100 ($62k)2018 Revenue 135 ($59k) Expenses 88 ($52k) Net assets 112 ($69k)2019 Revenue 182 ($80k) Expenses 105 ($63k) Net assets 139 ($86k)2020 Revenue 231 ($101k) Expenses 135 ($80k) Net assets 174 ($107k)2021 Revenue 160 ($70k) Expenses 157 ($94k) Net assets 135 ($83k)2022 Revenue 143 ($63k) Expenses 129 ($77k) Net assets 113 ($69k)2023 Revenue 221 ($96k) Expenses 124 ($74k) Net assets 149 ($92k)2024 Revenue 236 ($103k) Expenses 146 ($87k) Net assets 176 ($108k)2025 Revenue 228 ($100k) Expenses 169 ($101k) Net assets 174 ($107k)
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Revenue (228)Expenses (169)Net assets (174)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 2020 to 2021, from $107k to $84k (−22%).

$62k
$70k
$87k
$107k
$84k
$70k
$92k
$108k
$107k
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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

100% of Elementry School District No 181 Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (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. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$16k
’17
$7k
’18
$17k
’19
$21k
’20
−$24k
’21
−$14k
’22
$23k
’23
$16k
’24
−$886
’25

Leadership and staff

Chief executive

Margaret Cooper

Executive Director

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income fell $10k → $9k.

3 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 61% 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 Elementry School District No 181 Foundation’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

Elementry School District No 181 Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

61% 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 Elementry School District No 181 Foundation.

38%
largest funder
99%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 90% · 2022 100% · 2023 71% — 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

61% of Elementry School District No 181 Foundation'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 $10k that is directly attributable, 99% of it comes from Illinois funders.

IL
NY

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

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’22
’23
Illinois out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $16k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Elementry School District No 181 Foundation has grown faster than three-quarters of the 17,277 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−1% · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)11% · top quartile

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

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05Profile & governance

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

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 Elementry School District No 181 Foundation?
Elementry School District No 181 Foundation (Illinois) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $26,187 to it, the largest being MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC ($10,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Elementry School District No 181 Foundation have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $26,187 in grants to Elementry School District No 181 Foundation, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Elementry School District No 181 Foundation?
MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Elementry School District No 181 Foundation 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 5 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