Illinois · Nonprofit
One Lawndale Childrens Discovery Center
One Lawndale Childrens Discovery Center (Illinois) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,651,368 to it, the largest being NORTH LAWNDALE COMMUNITY COORDINATING COUNCIL INC ($1,271,868). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.8M
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $2.7M
- Net assets
- $2.9M
What One Lawndale Childrens Discovery Center does
Mission
Our mission is to serve as a vibrant catalyst for positive generational change, fostering early childhood health and development through the transformative power of play.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Our mission is to serve as a vibrant catalyst for positive generational change, fostering early childhood health and development through the transformative power of play.
$994,784 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $994,784.
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
Jesse Green
Board President
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 One Lawndale Childrens Discovery Center’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
One Lawndale Childrens Discovery Center leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
53% 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 One Lawndale Childrens Discovery Center.
“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 One Lawndale Childrens Discovery Center's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $53k 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
One Lawndale Childrens Discovery Center runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,752 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,752 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like One Lawndale Childrens Discovery Center
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
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for One Lawndale Childrens Discovery Center: 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 One Lawndale Childrens Discovery Center?
- One Lawndale Childrens Discovery Center (Illinois) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,651,368 to it, the largest being NORTH LAWNDALE COMMUNITY COORDINATING COUNCIL INC ($1,271,868). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does One Lawndale Childrens Discovery Center have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $2,651,368 in grants to One Lawndale Childrens Discovery Center, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of One Lawndale Childrens Discovery Center?
- NORTH LAWNDALE COMMUNITY COORDINATING COUNCIL INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,271,868 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like One Lawndale Childrens Discovery Center 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 2024–2024), and the filings of 10 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