Illinois · Nonprofit
RISE for Differently Abled Students
RISE for Differently Abled Students (Illinois) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $362,500 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($252,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 86% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2026
- $553k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $363k
- Net assets
- $81k
What RISE for Differently Abled Students does
Mission
We are dedicated to expanding opportunities for students with intellectual disabilities through creating an opportunity for individuals with intellectual disabilities to live independently in an environment designed to enhance independent living skills and employment opportunities.
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.
Program
We are dedicated to expanding opportunities for students with intellectual disabilities through creating an opportunity for individuals with intellectual disabilities to live independently in an environment designed to enhance independent living skills and employment opportunities.
$539,425 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2026 Form 990. Program spending in total: $539,425.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2025, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2025, 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 2025 to 2026, from $70k to $181k (+157%).
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.
98% of RISE for Differently Abled Students’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 86% 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 RISE for Differently Abled Students’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
RISE for Differently Abled Students leans on a few funders — its largest provides 70% 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
86% 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 RISE for Differently Abled Students.
“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
86% of RISE for Differently Abled Students'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 $50k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Illinois funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $313k 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.
Against its field
RISE for Differently Abled Students's revenue grew 647% between 2025 and 2026.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,238 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2026
Organizations like RISE for Differently Abled Students
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
99% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for RISE for Differently Abled Students: 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 RISE for Differently Abled Students?
- RISE for Differently Abled Students (Illinois) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $362,500 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($252,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 86% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does RISE for Differently Abled Students have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $362,500 in grants to RISE for Differently Abled Students.
- Who is the largest funder of RISE for Differently Abled Students?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $252,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RISE for Differently Abled Students 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 FY2026 (financials across 2025–2026), 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing