Illinois · Nonprofit
LAW AND CIVICS READNG AND WRITING INSTITUTE
LAW AND CIVICS READNG AND WRITING INSTITUTE (Illinois) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $325,000 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($100,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $80k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $325k
- Net assets
- $-40719
What Law and Civics Readng and Writing Institute does
Mission
To conduct multi-disciplinary research application evaluation and advocacy on how children learn: birth through adolescence.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
With the support of our grantors who have enabled us to enjoy many successes this year that have helped our think-and-do tank move from theory to implementation and evaluation and to achieve the following specific goals: Completed phase 1 of EJ survey research in Chicagos Southland community and are excited and ready to begin implementation in early 2024. We continue to bring Southland communities together around our EJ STEM research on social and business media platforms. See our recent LinkedIn article and video Developing community-building partnerships and allyships with Little Village Environmental Justice Organization LVEJO and other Chicago EJ organizations. Completed Phase Planning Interfaith Black male gun violence project and produced our plan entitled Interfaith 378: Reclaiming the Human Spirit by Acknowledging and Reclaiming the Human Suffering of Black Boys and Young Men in America. Our schedule calls for implementation in early 2024. Participant in the 2nd Annual Non-profit Boot Camp focusing on Black-led and Black people serving non-profits; SF Bay Foundation @ African American Art and Culture Center San Francisco.
$450,000 spentof which $80,000 as grants95% of program spendingThe Law and Civics Reading and Writing Institute implemented Project Restoration Inter-Faith 378 an initiative focused on acknowledging and redressing the human suffering experienced by Black boys and young men in America. The program develops and strengthens community partnerships with civic program and public safety leaders. Activities include environmental justice and STEM STEAM initiatives as well as interfaith efforts addressing Black male gun violence through research community engagement and advocacy.
$21,600 spentof which $80,000 as grants5% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $471,600.
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.
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 $2k to $110k (+6102%).
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.
100% of LAW AND CIVICS READNG AND WRITING INSTITUTE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (99% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 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.
Board chair
Victoria Washington
Board President
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $0 → $95k.
1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 31% 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 LAW AND CIVICS READNG AND WRITING INSTITUTE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 5 of 6 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
LAW AND CIVICS READNG AND WRITING INSTITUTE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
62% 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 LAW AND CIVICS READNG AND WRITING INSTITUTE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 67% · 2023 53% — 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
100% of LAW AND CIVICS READNG AND WRITING INSTITUTE's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $100k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
LAW AND CIVICS READNG AND WRITING INSTITUTE runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 107 social science nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 107 social science nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like LAW AND CIVICS READNG AND WRITING INSTITUTE
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.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LAW AND CIVICS READNG AND WRITING INSTITUTE: 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 LAW AND CIVICS READNG AND WRITING INSTITUTE?
- LAW AND CIVICS READNG AND WRITING INSTITUTE (Illinois) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $325,000 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($100,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LAW AND CIVICS READNG AND WRITING INSTITUTE have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $325,000 in grants to LAW AND CIVICS READNG AND WRITING INSTITUTE, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LAW AND CIVICS READNG AND WRITING INSTITUTE?
- The Chicago Community Trust is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LAW AND CIVICS READNG AND WRITING INSTITUTE 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 6 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