Illinois · Nonprofit
ESPERANZA COMMUNITY SERVICES
ESPERANZA COMMUNITY SERVICES (Illinois) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $579,749 to it, the largest being The Coleman Foundation Inc ($135,800). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $8.5M
- Funders on record
- 27
- Grants received
- $580k
- Net assets
- $4.2M
What Esperanza Community Services does
Mission
To empower people with developmental disabilities, to help them reach their fullest potential toward a productive and independent life in the community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Esperanza school - a private, therapeutic school serving students with disabilities between the ages of 5 and 21. The school's mission is to provide the instruction and services needed by students with disabiliteis to become as productive and independent as possible in school, family, and community life.
$4,324,703 spent$4,025,567 earned by the program61% of program spendingCommunity integrated living arrangements (cila) - the cila program of the organization seeks to offer residential services in a safe environment that reflects the choices of the people who live in the cilas. The program provides residents with training toward independence in daily living, economic self-sufficiency, and community integration.
$1,758,469 spent$2,426,817 earned by the program25% of program spendingColeridge adult training program - serves adults with developmental disabilities, ages 21 and older. The program trains adults with developmental disabilities to learn how to make decisions, develop their skills, and move toward greater independence.
$726,938 spent$670,013 earned by the program10% of program spendingThe behavior program - uses research-based techniques to help participants reduce behaviors that are interfering with their ability to achieve goals while helping them improve communication, focus, and other positive skills that will help them become more independent.
$89,541 spent$123,128 earned by the program1% of program spendingClient and family support program - providing clients with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families with in-home case management, help accessing critical benefits for which they are eligible, as well as the knowledge and confidence to access these resources themselves.
$142,244 spent$120,279 earned by the program2% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $7,041,895.
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.
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 $3.0M to $3.9M (+31%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 40% · 2018 39% · 2020 6% · 2021 9% · 2022 10% · 2023 1% · 2024 3% · 2025 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Chief executive
Jayne Drew
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 10 funders, grant income fell $67k → $45k.
6 of 27 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% 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 ESPERANZA COMMUNITY SERVICES’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
ESPERANZA COMMUNITY SERVICES has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
59% 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 ESPERANZA COMMUNITY SERVICES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 61% · 2018 45% · 2019 42% · 2020 25% · 2021 43% · 2022 37% · 2023 28% — 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
38% of ESPERANZA COMMUNITY SERVICES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
97% of ESPERANZA COMMUNITY SERVICES's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $208k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.
Organizations like ESPERANZA COMMUNITY SERVICES
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
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ESPERANZA COMMUNITY SERVICES: 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 ESPERANZA COMMUNITY SERVICES?
- ESPERANZA COMMUNITY SERVICES (Illinois) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $579,749 to it, the largest being The Coleman Foundation Inc ($135,800). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ESPERANZA COMMUNITY SERVICES have?
- IRS filings report 27 organizations giving $579,749 in grants to ESPERANZA COMMUNITY SERVICES, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ESPERANZA COMMUNITY SERVICES?
- The Coleman Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $135,800 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ESPERANZA COMMUNITY SERVICES 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 27 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