Illinois · Nonprofit
SMART LOVE PARENTING CENTER
SMART LOVE PARENTING CENTER (Illinois) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $390,412 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($218,272). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 93% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.4M
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $390k
- Net assets
- $1.0M
What Smart Love Parenting Center does
Mission
To provide a variety of programs in the chicago area to help children, parents, and adults achieve greater inner well-being, sustain closer relationships, and have more pleasurable family, school, and work lives.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Coaching and counseling: offers counseling services for children, adults, and families, as well as parent education classes and coaching. Our services include play and individual therapy, parent counseling, couples therapy, and a range of assessment and evaluation services. We also provide services to agencies, schools, and organizations.
$2,062,448 spentof which $43,728 as grants$2,294,283 earned by the program74% of program spendingPreschool: smart love preschool is a fully-licensed, not-for-profit school providing child care to children ages 2 to 6 years old. We offer a play-based curriculum, focused on creating a positive relationship with learning in a nurturing environment. At smart love, we foster children's social and emotional development as the portal for their academic growth and success. All learning from how to get along with others to finding joy in learning new things flows from the well-being of the child. Widely considered by child development experts around the world as key to success in school, social and emotional development translates into having confidence: a willingness to ask for help when needed but not because of feeling incompetent. Curiosity: a long-lasting desire to learn that doesn't depend solely on subject matter. Love of learning: an ability to enjoy the process of learning and not just the grade. Resiliency: a capacity to stick to the learning goal despite difficulty level, setbacks and confusion. Focus: an ability to study despite feeling tired or being distracted. Our students move on to elementary school with a desire to learn, a sense of confidence in the classroom and a…
$654,928 spentof which $16,359 as grants$725,513 earned by the program23% of program spendingLearning & parenting: therapeutic tutoring combines the benefits of traditional tutoring with the therapeutic aspects of helping school-age children and teens understand their feelings and emotions around their school experience and learning and receive help to improve enjoyment of school and learning. Psychological and learning evaluations assess general intellect, memory, learning style, academic skills, attention/concentration, language, executive functioning and the like. Evaluations are the first step in establishing an iep (individual education plan). Parents of struggling children are supported by therapeutic staff via one-on-one consultations, webinars, groups and publications.
$76,745 spentof which $7,296 as grants$15,907 earned by the program3% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,794,121.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 $2.7M to $3.1M (+16%).
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: 2021 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
7% of SMART LOVE PARENTING CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Board chair
Katherine L Knight
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $28k → $79k.
5 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 93% 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 SMART LOVE PARENTING 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
SMART LOVE PARENTING CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
93% 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 SMART LOVE PARENTING CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 55% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 54% · 2021 94% · 2022 73% · 2023 64% — growing more concentrated.
“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
22% of SMART LOVE PARENTING CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
93% of SMART LOVE PARENTING CENTER'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 $26k that is directly attributable, 56% of it comes from funders outside Illinois, across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $364k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
SMART LOVE PARENTING CENTER's revenue grew 31% between 2019 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like SMART LOVE PARENTING 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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SMART LOVE PARENTING 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 SMART LOVE PARENTING CENTER?
- SMART LOVE PARENTING CENTER (Illinois) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $390,412 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($218,272). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 93% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SMART LOVE PARENTING CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $390,412 in grants to SMART LOVE PARENTING CENTER, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SMART LOVE PARENTING CENTER?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $218,272 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SMART LOVE PARENTING 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 11 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