Illinois · Nonprofit
ELMHURST DISTRICT 205 FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE
ELMHURST DISTRICT 205 FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE (Illinois) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $202,454 to it, the largest being Schwab Charitable Fund ($161,210). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 94% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Pga Tour First Tee Foundation Incshared funders
- The Consortium of Florida Education Foundations Incportfolio match
- Friend to Friend Incportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $0 → $26k.
4 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 94% 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 ELMHURST DISTRICT 205 FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 7 of 8 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
ELMHURST DISTRICT 205 FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 80% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
94% 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 ELMHURST DISTRICT 205 FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 99% · 2021 57% · 2022 96% · 2023 98% — 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
94% of ELMHURST DISTRICT 205 FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE'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 $12k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Illinois, across 2 states.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $190k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Pga Tour First Tee Foundation Incshared fundersFL · backs 133 organizations that share your funders
- The Consortium of Florida Education Foundations Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Friend to Friend Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Durotech Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Cless Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Round It Up America Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Nafportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Apple Federal Credit Union Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Chiefs for Changeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Smith and Reilly Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Thomas a Demetrio Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hoban Family Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like ELMHURST DISTRICT 205 FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
60% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
52%
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 1 related entity
- Elmhurst CUSD #205 · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ELMHURST DISTRICT 205 FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds ELMHURST DISTRICT 205 FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE?
- ELMHURST DISTRICT 205 FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE (Illinois) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $202,454 to it, the largest being Schwab Charitable Fund ($161,210). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 94% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ELMHURST DISTRICT 205 FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $202,454 in grants to ELMHURST DISTRICT 205 FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ELMHURST DISTRICT 205 FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE?
- Schwab Charitable Fund is the largest funder on record, with $161,210 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ELMHURST DISTRICT 205 FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 8funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing