Illinois · Nonprofit
PARK LAWN SCHOOL AND ACTIVITY CENTER IN C
PARK LAWN SCHOOL AND ACTIVITY CENTER IN C (Illinois) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $247,030 to it, the largest being The Coleman Foundation Inc ($142,500). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $15M
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $247k
- Net assets
- $2.7M
What Park Lawn School and Activity Center in C does
Mission
The principal purpose of the school is the care, treatment and education of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Residential: not-for profit, 24 hour residential services for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities 18 years and older: supported by department of public aid and social security funds, dept. Of housing and urban development fees and community contributions. Program focus is on supervised living skills development.
$5,373,897 spent40% of program spendingDevelopmental training: not-for profit, sheltered employment and rehabilitation for intellectual and developmentally disabled adults 18 years and older; supported by the illinois dept. Of human services and public aid funds and community contributions. Program focuses on functional skills and vocational training.
$4,506,942 spent34% of program spendingCommunity integrated living arragement; not for profit residential and day program for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities, 18 years or older. Supported by illinois department of human services funds. Program focuses on maximizing client independence in residential living and employment or educational development.
$3,450,097 spent26% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $13,330,936.
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 2019 to 2020, from $1.6M to $3.1M (+91%).
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.
2% of PARK LAWN SCHOOL AND ACTIVITY CENTER IN C’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. 2 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.
Chief executive
Frank Portada
Executive Director
Board chair
Cheri Boublis
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $2k → $39k.
4 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 28% 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: $2.3M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Park Lawn Association Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money PARK LAWN SCHOOL AND ACTIVITY CENTER IN C raised.
From the IRS filings of PARK LAWN SCHOOL AND ACTIVITY CENTER IN C’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
PARK LAWN SCHOOL AND ACTIVITY CENTER IN C leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
28% 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 PARK LAWN SCHOOL AND ACTIVITY CENTER IN C.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 49% · 2021 88% · 2022 36% · 2023 32% — 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
25% of PARK LAWN SCHOOL AND ACTIVITY CENTER IN C's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
100% of PARK LAWN SCHOOL AND ACTIVITY CENTER IN C's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $70k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
PARK LAWN SCHOOL AND ACTIVITY CENTER IN C's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 5 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like PARK LAWN SCHOOL AND ACTIVITY CENTER IN C
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
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
63%
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 3 related entities
- Park Lawn Association Inc · exempt
- Park Lawn Foundation Inc · exempt
- Park Lawn Homes Inc · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds PARK LAWN SCHOOL AND ACTIVITY CENTER IN C?
- PARK LAWN SCHOOL AND ACTIVITY CENTER IN C (Illinois) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $247,030 to it, the largest being The Coleman Foundation Inc ($142,500). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PARK LAWN SCHOOL AND ACTIVITY CENTER IN C have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $247,030 in grants to PARK LAWN SCHOOL AND ACTIVITY CENTER IN C, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PARK LAWN SCHOOL AND ACTIVITY CENTER IN C?
- The Coleman Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $142,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PARK LAWN SCHOOL AND ACTIVITY CENTER IN C 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 9 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