Illinois · Nonprofit
LESLIE SHANKMAN SCHOOL CORPORATION
LESLIE SHANKMAN SCHOOL CORPORATION (Illinois) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $996,089 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($190,450). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 85% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $19M
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $996k
- Net assets
- $16M
What Leslie Shankman School Corporation does
Mission
The organization operates private special education schools, including a day school for children with learning disabilities with average to high iqs. The organization also operates a day school for children with psychiatric and emotional disorders.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Hpds | the organization operates the hyde park day school for students with learning differences and needs that cannot be met in a regular school setting. They serve students from kindergarten through eighth grade with locations in chicago, il, northfield, il, and lemont, il for up to 180 pupils. The students have average to superior intelligence. The majority of the students transition back to a regular school and go on to attend and complete college.
$8,766,880 spentof which $310,108 as grants$8,216,720 earned by the program53% of program spendingSsos | the organization operates the sonia shankman orthogenic school, a day school for students with profound emotional issues. It serves students from kindergarten through twelfth grade. A large majority of students graduate to college, back to their home schools or to less restrictive environments. Therapeutic services are provided for students attending the sonia shankman orthogenic school. The residential program was closed in fy 2021, in order to triple the size of the day program over the next 4 years to a maximum of 130 students. The day school also includes a transitional program.
$7,472,009 spentof which $166,471 as grants$8,832,790 earned by the program45% of program spendingNis | the hyde park day school and orthogenic school operate a non-instructional program including teacher training, a small summer camp, and diagnostic and evaluation center. All center around our mission of supporting students with special education needs.
$348,759 spent$247,405 earned by the program2% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $16,587,648.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2019 to 2020, from $40M to $21M (−47%).
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: 2021 14% · 2023 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
7% of LESLIE SHANKMAN SCHOOL CORPORATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue 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. 4 of the last 7 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
Janet Goelz Hoffman
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $41k → $148k.
14 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 85% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $4.3M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Foundation for the Educational Development of Children). These are real filings, and they are not money LESLIE SHANKMAN SCHOOL CORPORATION raised.
From the IRS filings of LESLIE SHANKMAN SCHOOL CORPORATION’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
LESLIE SHANKMAN SCHOOL CORPORATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% 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
85% 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 LESLIE SHANKMAN SCHOOL CORPORATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 38% · 2018 42% · 2019 29% · 2020 25% · 2021 25% · 2022 17% · 2023 23% — 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
54% of LESLIE SHANKMAN SCHOOL CORPORATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 74% 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
85% of LESLIE SHANKMAN SCHOOL CORPORATION'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 $146k that is directly attributable, 96% of it comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $850k arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
LESLIE SHANKMAN SCHOOL CORPORATION receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $996k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like LESLIE SHANKMAN SCHOOL CORPORATION
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
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Fedc Holdings LLC · disregarded
- The Foundation for the Educational Development of Children · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds LESLIE SHANKMAN SCHOOL CORPORATION?
- LESLIE SHANKMAN SCHOOL CORPORATION (Illinois) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $996,089 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($190,450). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 85% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does LESLIE SHANKMAN SCHOOL CORPORATION have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $996,089 in grants to LESLIE SHANKMAN SCHOOL CORPORATION, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LESLIE SHANKMAN SCHOOL CORPORATION?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $190,450 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LESLIE SHANKMAN SCHOOL CORPORATION 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 19 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