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ERIE ELEMENTARY CHARTER SCHOOL

ERIE ELEMENTARY CHARTER SCHOOL (Illinois) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,716,182 to it, the largest being PERKINS MALO HUNTER FOUNDATION ($720,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$7.9M
Revenue FY2025
28
Funders on record
$1.7M
Grants received
$14M
Net assets
17/28 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 4%

Against its field

ERIE ELEMENTARY CHARTER SCHOOL is better cushioned than half of the 9,072 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin2% · below the median
Months of reserve5.6mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)5% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,072 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($5.6M) Expenses 100 ($5.8M) Net assets 100 ($959k)2019 Revenue 102 ($5.7M) Expenses 113 ($6.5M) Net assets 15 ($142k)2020 Revenue 350 ($20M) Expenses 115 ($6.6M) Net assets 1362 ($13M)2021 Revenue 118 ($6.6M) Expenses 108 ($6.2M) Net assets 1398 ($13M)2022 Revenue 118 ($6.6M) Expenses 113 ($6.5M) Net assets 1386 ($13M)2023 Revenue 126 ($7.0M) Expenses 123 ($7.1M) Net assets 1382 ($13M)2024 Revenue 134 ($7.5M) Expenses 126 ($7.2M) Net assets 1406 ($13M)2025 Revenue 141 ($7.9M) Expenses 134 ($7.7M) Net assets 1425 ($14M)
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Revenue (141)Expenses (134)Net assets (1425)Peer revenue range

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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2018 68% · 2019 70% · 2020 19% · 2021 66% · 2022 93% · 2023 95% · 2024 93% · 2025 96%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

98% of ERIE ELEMENTARY CHARTER SCHOOL’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,312 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$162k
18
$816k
19
$13M
20
$341k
21
$116k
22
$47k
23
$237k
24
$183k
25
5.6
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $195k → $206k.

7 of 28 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)24% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

Left out of every figure on this page: $1.3M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Erie Charter School Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money ERIE ELEMENTARY CHARTER SCHOOL raised.

From the IRS filings of ERIE ELEMENTARY CHARTER SCHOOL’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

ERIE ELEMENTARY CHARTER SCHOOL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 63%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

28% 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 ERIE ELEMENTARY CHARTER SCHOOL.

42%
largest funder
63%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 51% · 2018 53% · 2019 41% · 2020 40% · 2021 35% · 2022 37% · 2023 48%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

48% of ERIE ELEMENTARY CHARTER SCHOOL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

ERIE ELEMENTARY CHARTER SCHOOL draws 72% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 9 states in all.

IL
MI
NJ
CA
NE
DE
TN
AL
FL

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

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Illinois out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $411k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

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. Your 28 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

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 ERIE ELEMENTARY CHARTER SCHOOL

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

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

88% of spending goes to programs.

Program 88%Management 10%Fundraising 1%

Governance

17
board members
82%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Erie Charter School Foundation · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ERIE ELEMENTARY CHARTER SCHOOL: 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 ERIE ELEMENTARY CHARTER SCHOOL?
ERIE ELEMENTARY CHARTER SCHOOL (Illinois) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,716,182 to it, the largest being PERKINS MALO HUNTER FOUNDATION ($720,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ERIE ELEMENTARY CHARTER SCHOOL have?
IRS filings report 28 organizations giving $1,716,182 in grants to ERIE ELEMENTARY CHARTER SCHOOL, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ERIE ELEMENTARY CHARTER SCHOOL?
PERKINS MALO HUNTER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $720,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ERIE ELEMENTARY CHARTER SCHOOL 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 28funders 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