Illinois · Nonprofit
NOBLE NETWORK OF CHARTER SCHOOLS
NOBLE NETWORK OF CHARTER SCHOOLS (Illinois) receives grants from 83 organizations whose IRS filings report $48,330,854 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($16,113,100). 53 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $230M
- Funders on record
- 83
- Grants received
- $48M
- Net assets
- $170M
What Noble Network of Charter Schools does
Mission
Noble will ensure that all students have equitable and positive school experiences that equip them to complete college and lead choice-filled lives.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The Noble Network of Charter Schools was established for the purpose of replicating the nationally recognized noble street charter high school, which opened in 1999. The network provides a quality education to enable the low-income population to make changes to improve their lives. The network served 11,919 students in 2025.
$207,475,761 spentof which $714,405 as grants$11,393,193 earned by the program99% of program spendingOpened in 2010, noble day care, l3c (ndc) provides an enriching educational experience to the approximately 37 children enrolled in the program. Ndc's educational model follows a balanced approach of free exploration, natural environment learning with guidance, and built-in structured activities. Qualified teachers provide a set curriculum and prepare assessments to ensure the children are meeting developmental goals through their learning. Ndc is also an approved site for Noble Network of Charter Schools' students who can earn volunteer hours for participating in ndc activities and helping out around the facility.
$1,083,039 spent$632,407 earned by the program1% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $208,558,800.
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 2020 to 2021, from $207M to $251M (+21%).
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 86% · 2018 82% · 2019 88% · 2020 89% · 2021 94% · 2022 92% · 2023 85% · 2024 90% · 2025 88%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of NOBLE NETWORK OF CHARTER SCHOOLS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (14% 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.
Chief executive
Brenda Cora
CEO (started 01/25) and chief schools officer
Board chair
Jose De La Rosa
Interim board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 16 funders to 34 funders, grant income rose $2.7M → $20M.
17 of 83 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 56% 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 NOBLE NETWORK OF CHARTER SCHOOLS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 83 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
NOBLE NETWORK OF CHARTER SCHOOLS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 33% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
64% 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 NOBLE NETWORK OF CHARTER SCHOOLS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 26% · 2018 45% · 2019 27% · 2020 20% · 2021 11% · 2022 16% · 2023 81% — growing more concentrated.
“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
50% of NOBLE NETWORK OF CHARTER SCHOOLS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
56% of NOBLE NETWORK OF CHARTER SCHOOLS'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 $21M that is directly attributable, 62% of it comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $27M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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
NOBLE NETWORK OF CHARTER SCHOOLS's revenue grew 47% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 684 education nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding NOBLE NETWORK OF CHARTER SCHOOLS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $4.3M on record.
- Department of Education$3.3M
- Department of Justice$1.0M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like NOBLE NETWORK OF CHARTER 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
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 2 related entities
- Noble Day Care L3c · disregarded
- Mansueto High School LLC · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NOBLE NETWORK OF CHARTER 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 NOBLE NETWORK OF CHARTER SCHOOLS?
- NOBLE NETWORK OF CHARTER SCHOOLS (Illinois) receives grants from 83 organizations whose IRS filings report $48,330,854 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($16,113,100). 53 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does NOBLE NETWORK OF CHARTER SCHOOLS have?
- IRS filings report 83 organizations giving $48,330,854 in grants to NOBLE NETWORK OF CHARTER SCHOOLS, 53 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NOBLE NETWORK OF CHARTER SCHOOLS?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $16,113,100 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NOBLE NETWORK OF CHARTER 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.
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 83 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