Illinois · Nonprofit
KIPP CHICAGO SCHOOLS
KIPP CHICAGO SCHOOLS (Illinois) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,800,322 to it, the largest being A Better Chicago ($1,445,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $57M
- Funders on record
- 39
- Grants received
- $4.8M
- Net assets
- $8.2M
What Kipp Chicago Schools does
Mission
The team at Kipp Chicago Schools is guided by a simple, yet powerful mission: to create a network of excellent schools in chicago that teach our students the character and academic skills necessary to succeed in college and beyond, and to instill in them a desire to help change the world.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Kipp Chicago Schools is a network of free, open-enrollment public charter schools offering a college preparatory education to students from chicago's most underserved communities. Today, Kipp Chicago Schools serves approximately 3,500 students at four primary and four middle schools in the austin, englewood, humboldt park, and north lawndale communities. Kipp Chicago Schools also supports over 2,500 kipp alumni through its kipp forward program. Far surpassing local norms, 89% of alumni have completed high school and 66% have matriculated to college. Kipp aspires to grow its impact in chicago.
$51,442,105 spent$149,215 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $51,442,105.
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 $14M to $9.2M (−33%).
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 89% · 2018 93% · 2019 92% · 2020 93% · 2021 92% · 2022 95% · 2023 96% · 2024 96% · 2025 96%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of KIPP CHICAGO SCHOOLS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $169k → $548k.
11 of 39 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 KIPP CHICAGO SCHOOLS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 39 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
KIPP CHICAGO SCHOOLS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 30% of grant income and the top three 65%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
56% 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 KIPP CHICAGO SCHOOLS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 45% · 2018 26% · 2019 18% · 2020 57% · 2021 46% · 2022 31% · 2023 46% — 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.
How long its funders stay
26% of KIPP CHICAGO SCHOOLS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% 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
90% of KIPP CHICAGO SCHOOLS's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $975k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
KIPP CHICAGO SCHOOLS has grown faster than three-quarters of the 3,794 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,794 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like KIPP CHICAGO SCHOOLS
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
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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
- Kipp Chicago · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for KIPP CHICAGO SCHOOLS: 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 KIPP CHICAGO SCHOOLS?
- KIPP CHICAGO SCHOOLS (Illinois) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,800,322 to it, the largest being A Better Chicago ($1,445,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does KIPP CHICAGO SCHOOLS have?
- IRS filings report 39 organizations giving $4,800,322 in grants to KIPP CHICAGO SCHOOLS, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KIPP CHICAGO SCHOOLS?
- A Better Chicago is the largest funder on record, with $1,445,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KIPP CHICAGO SCHOOLS 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 39 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing