Illinois · Nonprofit
Safe Haven School
Safe Haven School (Illinois) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,092 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($12,250). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2026
- $1.8M
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $21k
- Net assets
- $503k
What Safe Haven School does
Mission
To offer an alternative, safe, nurturing therapeutic day school for children in grades 6 through 12 with internalizing behavior disorders free from distractions of students with externalizing behavior disorders.
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.
Program
The organization operates a school in Lake Bluff, Illinois, serving 30 to 45 students. Safe Haven School's management of emotions and behavior occurs within and outside of the classroom. The goal is to establish a psychologically and physically safe and secure environment that will promote individual and group development. The therapeutic approach is need-responsive, presenting students with a stabilizing environment, structure, safety, routine, predictability, and respect. Students engage in mood monitoring throughout the day, weekly collaborative problem-solving, daily conferencing with their educational case manager, and the use of I-statements. A culture of kindness permeates the program.
$1,701,961 spent$1,812,797 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2026 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,701,961.
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 2023 to 2024, from $761k to $3.1M (+303%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
0% of Safe Haven School’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 10 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
Sheila Deal
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2026 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $96 → $2k.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 61% 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 Safe Haven School’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
Safe Haven School leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
61% 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 Safe Haven School.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 49% · 2022 100% · 2023 93% — 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
61% of Safe Haven School'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 $8k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $13k 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
Safe Haven School's revenue fell 20% between 2017 and 2026.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 204 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2026
Organizations like Safe Haven School
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
85% 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 Safe Haven School: 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 Safe Haven School?
- Safe Haven School (Illinois) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,092 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($12,250). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Safe Haven School have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $21,092 in grants to Safe Haven School, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Safe Haven School?
- AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $12,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Safe Haven School 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 FY2026 (financials across 2017–2026), and the filings of 4 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