Illinois · Nonprofit
SCHULER INITIATIVE SUPPORTING CHARITABLE TRUST
SCHULER INITIATIVE SUPPORTING CHARITABLE TRUST (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $42,606,406 to it, the largest being SCHULER EDUCATION FOUNDATION ($42,606,406). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $-772278
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $43M
- Net assets
- $145k
What Schuler Initiative Supporting Charitable Trust does
Mission
The trust was formed for the charitable purpose of supporting one or more of the supported colleges, each of which is a public charity, to carry out charitable activities. The supported colleges are: (1) the president and trustees of bates college, of lewiston, maine, (2) carleton college of northfield, minnesota, (3) kenyon college, of gambier, ohio, (4) tufts university, of somerville, massachusetts, and (5) the trustees of union college of schenectady, new york. The trust's activities are to make distributions exclusively to the supported colleges, specifically to further the purposes of the schuler access initiative aimed at increasing access to college by needy individuals, to increase the number of undocumented and pell grant-eligible low-income students attending supported colleges, and to further educational goals of the supported colleges, all as determined by the trustees. The trust will dedicated 100 percent of its time and expenses to these activities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
The trust's activities are to make distributions exclusively to supported colleges, specifically to further the purposes of the schuler access initiative aimed at increasing access to college by needy individuals, to increase the number of undocumented and pell grant-eligible low-income students attending supported colleges, and to further educational goals of the supported colleges, all as determined by the trustees.
$0 spent
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2021 to 2022, from $43M to $11M (−74%).
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.
0% of SCHULER INITIATIVE SUPPORTING CHARITABLE TRUST’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (95% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 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.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of SCHULER INITIATIVE SUPPORTING CHARITABLE TRUST’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.
Where its funders are
100% of SCHULER INITIATIVE SUPPORTING CHARITABLE TRUST's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
SCHULER INITIATIVE SUPPORTING CHARITABLE TRUST's revenue fell 102% between 2021 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,748 philanthropy nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
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In Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SCHULER INITIATIVE SUPPORTING CHARITABLE TRUST?
- SCHULER INITIATIVE SUPPORTING CHARITABLE TRUST (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $42,606,406 to it, the largest being SCHULER EDUCATION FOUNDATION ($42,606,406). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SCHULER INITIATIVE SUPPORTING CHARITABLE TRUST have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $42,606,406 in grants to SCHULER INITIATIVE SUPPORTING CHARITABLE TRUST.
- Who is the largest funder of SCHULER INITIATIVE SUPPORTING CHARITABLE TRUST?
- SCHULER EDUCATION FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $42,606,406 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SCHULER INITIATIVE SUPPORTING CHARITABLE TRUST 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 1 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