Illinois · Nonprofit
FRIENDS OF BRENTANO SCHOOL
FRIENDS OF BRENTANO SCHOOL (Illinois) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $79,104 to it, the largest being FRONTSTREAM GLOBAL FUND ($55,767). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 89% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $88k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $79k
- Net assets
- $34k
What Friends of Brentano School does
Mission
To Support programs at Brentano Math and Science Academy
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Food supplies and drinks for teacher appreciation week
$580 spent1% of program spending7th and 8th grade graduation costs
$32,636 spent38% of program spendingKindergarten graduation costs
$5,921 spent7% of program spendingPrincipal Vp Clerk appreciation
$544 spent1% of program spendingBakes sale
$184 spent0% of program spendingSchool beautification day
$173 spent0% of program spendingBlack student union
$5,661 spent7% of program spendingCoffee talks with principal
$426 spent0% of program spendingFamily ice skating event
$294 spent0% of program spendingFood for teacher work days
$663 spent1% of program spendingHallway art show
$319 spent0% of program spendingKids day event
$1,745 spent2% of program spendingSchool musical expense
$1,016 spent1% of program spendingPlant club expense
$818 spent1% of program spendingHoliday gifts to teachers and staff
$1,500 spent2% of program spendingAuditorium sound system repair
$1,307 spent2% of program spendingFunded new whiteboards in classrooms
$9,167 spent11% of program spendingFunded new classroom projectors
$11,851 spent14% of program spendingMakers space supplies
$38 spent0% of program spendingSchool newpaper printing
$977 spent1% of program spendingService for weekly email school newsletter
$680 spent1% of program spendingFunded new kiln for art classroom
$9,795 spent11% of program spending
The 22 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $86,295.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $37k to $34k (−9%).
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.
9% of FRIENDS OF BRENTANO SCHOOL’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $100 → $38k.
3 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 89% 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 FRIENDS OF BRENTANO 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
FRIENDS OF BRENTANO SCHOOL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 70% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
89% 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 FRIENDS OF BRENTANO SCHOOL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 50% · 2020 79% · 2021 68% · 2022 95% · 2023 96% — 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
89% of FRIENDS OF BRENTANO SCHOOL'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 $9k that is directly attributable, 71% of it comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $71k 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
FRIENDS OF BRENTANO SCHOOL has grown faster than three-quarters of the 21,859 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,859 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like FRIENDS OF BRENTANO SCHOOL
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.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FRIENDS OF BRENTANO SCHOOL?
- FRIENDS OF BRENTANO SCHOOL (Illinois) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $79,104 to it, the largest being FRONTSTREAM GLOBAL FUND ($55,767). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 89% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FRIENDS OF BRENTANO SCHOOL have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $79,104 in grants to FRIENDS OF BRENTANO SCHOOL, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF BRENTANO SCHOOL?
- FRONTSTREAM GLOBAL FUND is the largest funder on record, with $55,767 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS OF BRENTANO 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), 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