Illinois · Nonprofit
Franciscan Community Benefit Services
Franciscan Community Benefit Services (Illinois) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,358,426 to it, the largest being FIRST LOOK FOR CHARITY FOUNDATION ($1,309,880). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $20M
What Franciscan Community Benefit Services does
Mission
MISSION - TO celebrate life and serve with joy. Vision - to provide access to Catholic high schools and offer programs for higher education and career readiness for young women from the Chicago area.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The Madonna Foundation is focused on increasing access to Chicago area single gender Catholic high schools for young women of all faiths who demonstrate financial need and a desire for academic success. As students from first generation and minority backgrounds, our students face barriers. Through our partial tuition assistance and college and careers readiness programs, the Madonna Foundation provides the tools necessary to become successful in high school, college, and beyond.
$681,498 spentof which $356,000 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $681,498.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $4.0M to $17M (+336%).
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.
16% of Franciscan Community Benefit Services’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (90% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Regina Umanskiy
President & Chief Executive Officer
Board chair
James Stark
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose $162k → $171k.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 Franciscan Community Benefit 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
Franciscan Community Benefit Services leans on a few funders — its largest provides 96% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 82% · 2022 89% · 2023 82% — 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
99% of Franciscan Community Benefit 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. $10k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Against its field
Franciscan Community Benefit Services runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,211 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,211 religion nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Franciscan Community Benefit 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
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
42%
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 11 related entities
- Franciscan Sisters of Chicago · exempt
- Franciscan Sisters of Chicago Service Corp · exempt
- Franciscan Communities Inc · exempt
- University Place Inc · exempt
- Franciscan Community Services Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Franciscan Community Benefit 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 Franciscan Community Benefit Services?
- Franciscan Community Benefit Services (Illinois) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,358,426 to it, the largest being FIRST LOOK FOR CHARITY FOUNDATION ($1,309,880). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Franciscan Community Benefit Services have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $1,358,426 in grants to Franciscan Community Benefit Services, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Franciscan Community Benefit Services?
- FIRST LOOK FOR CHARITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,309,880 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Franciscan Community Benefit 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 7 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