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PACTT Learning Center

PACTT Learning Center (Illinois) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,244,069 to it, the largest being The Coleman Foundation Inc ($745,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$8.1M
Funders on record
29
Grants received
$2.2M
Net assets
$4.9M
15/29 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 14%
01What it does

What PACTT Learning Center does

Mission

Pactt - parents allied with children and teachers for tomorrow - was established in 1993 in chicago as an independent, not-for-profit agency dedicated to serving children with severe autism and their families. Its mission: to assist individuals with autism in becoming as independent as possible with the ability to integrate effectively into their homes and community. The agency includes a therapeutic day school and transition program, adult vocational program, and five residential homes. Our vision is to create a future of belonging for people with autism, assuring they have the resources they need to secure their right to happiness, agency and inclusion. We will help to build communities who recognize their members with autism for the talents, gifts and strengths they have, transforming the way people think about autism and making the future a better place for all.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. PACTT Learning Center - the therapeutic day school in chicago's rogers park neighborhood serves children with severe autism up to age 21. Learning center teachers and staff serve students in an intimate setting where a student-teacher ratio of 2:1 is maintained. Education is carefully tailored to the needs of each student. The pactt team consists of teachers, therapists and families working together.

    $2,077,196 spent$1,974,443 earned by the program
    31% of program spending
  2. Pactt group homes - pactt opened its first group home in oak park in 1999, and a second in elmwood park in 2001, to provide safe, stable residences for the autistic children of nearby families.

    $795,384 spent$1,002,128 earned by the program
    12% of program spending
  3. Pactt adult cilas - pactt opened its first cila for young adults next to the learning center in rogers park in 2007. In 2013, pactt opened its second cila for adults in oak park. In 2022, pactt opened its third cila for adults in rogers park.

    $2,595,610 spent$3,102,011 earned by the program
    38% of program spending
  4. Transitional Services

    $343,888 spent$430,368 earned by the program
    5% of program spending
  5. Vocational Services

    $940,193 spent$645,250 earned by the program
    14% of program spending

The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,752,271.

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($3.7M) Expenses 100 ($3.7M) Net assets 100 ($2.4M)2018 Revenue 109 ($4.0M) Expenses 106 ($3.9M) Net assets 105 ($2.5M)2019 Revenue 140 ($5.1M) Expenses 120 ($4.4M) Net assets 136 ($3.3M)2020 Revenue 156 ($5.7M) Expenses 131 ($4.8M) Net assets 173 ($4.2M)2021 Revenue 153 ($5.6M) Expenses 139 ($5.1M) Net assets 194 ($4.7M)2022 Revenue 140 ($5.1M) Expenses 145 ($5.3M) Net assets 187 ($4.5M)2023 Revenue 161 ($5.9M) Expenses 164 ($6.0M) Net assets 183 ($4.4M)2024 Revenue 199 ($7.3M) Expenses 187 ($6.8M) Net assets 201 ($4.8M)2025 Revenue 222 ($8.1M) Expenses 220 ($8.1M) Net assets 205 ($4.9M)
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Revenue (222)Expenses (220)Net assets (205)

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 $4.3M to $5.8M (+34%).

$3.4M
$3.6M
$4.3M
$5.8M
$5.9M
$5.7M
$6.2M
$6.8M
$6.8M
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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

Government-grant reliance: 2021 13% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$661
’17
$128k
’18
$743k
’19
$889k
’20
$505k
’21
−$162k
’22
−$108k
’23
$444k
’24
$81k
’25
2.6
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.

Chief executive

Kristen Huffman-Gottschling

Executive Director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed99891011141212
Joined·+2+0+2+2+1+3+0+0
No longer listed·21110020
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $48k → $166k.

6 of 29 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% 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 PACTT Learning 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

PACTT Learning Center leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

38% 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 PACTT Learning Center.

33%
largest funder
70%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 69% · 2018 67% · 2019 67% · 2020 72% · 2021 38% · 2022 37% · 2023 26% — 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

50% of PACTT Learning Center's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

92% of PACTT Learning Center's grant income comes from Illinois funders.

MN
IL
MA
NJ
NC
TX
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’22
’23
Illinois out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $811k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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

Organizations like PACTT Learning 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

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

84% of spending goes to programs.

Program 84%Management 14%Fundraising 3%

Governance

11
board members
100%
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 PACTT Learning 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 PACTT Learning Center?
PACTT Learning Center (Illinois) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,244,069 to it, the largest being The Coleman Foundation Inc ($745,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does PACTT Learning Center have?
IRS filings report 29 organizations giving $2,244,069 in grants to PACTT Learning Center, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of PACTT Learning Center?
The Coleman Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $745,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like PACTT Learning 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 29 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