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OUR LADY OF THE HEART BASIC STUDIES

OUR LADY OF THE HEART BASIC STUDIES (Illinois) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,260 to it, the largest being Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc ($15,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 75% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$1.8M
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$20k
Net assets
$-437900
1/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%
01What it does

What Our Lady of the Heart Basic Studies does

Mission

Provide a quality independent college - preparatory education for pre-k - 12 students

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Provide quality elementary and high school education for students

  2. Provide quality elementary and high school education for students

    $992,506 spent
    100% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $992,506.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($276k) Expenses 100 ($220k)2018 Revenue 78 ($214k) Expenses 161 ($355k)2019 Revenue 180 ($496k) Expenses 311 ($683k)2020 Revenue 243 ($669k) Expenses 395 ($869k)2021 Revenue 191 ($528k) Expenses 375 ($824k)2022 Revenue 407 ($1.1M) Expenses 435 ($957k)2023 Revenue 374 ($1.0M) Expenses 527 ($1.2M)2024 Revenue 426 ($1.2M) Expenses 605 ($1.3M)2025 Revenue 655 ($1.8M) Expenses 648 ($1.4M)
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Revenue (655)Expenses (648)Peer revenue range

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 $297k to $1.7M (+475%).

$462k
$488k
$338k
$297k
$1.7M
$1.7M
$1.6M
$1.8M
$1.7M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

73% of OUR LADY OF THE HEART BASIC STUDIES’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,352 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$56k
’17
−$140k
’18
−$187k
’19
−$200k
’20
−$296k
’21
$166k
’22
−$127k
’23
−$155k
’24
$381k
’25
0.2
months of
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.

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Listed444444333
Joined·+0+0+0+0+0+0+0+0
No longer listed·00000100
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $147 → $5k.

2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 75% 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 OUR LADY OF THE HEART BASIC STUDIES’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

OUR LADY OF THE HEART BASIC STUDIES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 74% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

75% 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 OUR LADY OF THE HEART BASIC STUDIES.

74%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 98% — 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

75% of OUR LADY OF THE HEART BASIC STUDIES'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 $5k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Illinois funders.

IL

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $15k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

OUR LADY OF THE HEART BASIC STUDIES runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin21% · top quartile
Months of reserve0.2mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)26% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like OUR LADY OF THE HEART BASIC STUDIES

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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

70% of spending goes to programs.

Program 70%Management 29%Fundraising 2%

Governance

4
board members
0%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

IL

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for OUR LADY OF THE HEART BASIC STUDIES: 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 OUR LADY OF THE HEART BASIC STUDIES?
OUR LADY OF THE HEART BASIC STUDIES (Illinois) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,260 to it, the largest being Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc ($15,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 75% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does OUR LADY OF THE HEART BASIC STUDIES have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $20,260 in grants to OUR LADY OF THE HEART BASIC STUDIES, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of OUR LADY OF THE HEART BASIC STUDIES?
Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $15,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like OUR LADY OF THE HEART BASIC STUDIES 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 3 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