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SOUTHWESTERN SCHOOL FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE

SOUTHWESTERN SCHOOL FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $59,849 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($59,591). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2026
$111k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$60k
Net assets
$330k
2/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 22%
01What it does

What Southwestern School Foundation for Educational Excellence does

Mission

None

As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Organization will provide enrichment for southwestern cusd's curriculum through funding activities promoting high quality instruction along with funding for materials, equipment, facilities, and staff development through use of mini-grants

    $5,639 spentof which $5,049 as grants
    10% of program spending
  2. Organization will support innovative educational activities to benefit and challenge students to attain higher levels of educational excellence by providing scholarships from funds generated from annual banquet.

  3. Organization will work to provide scholarships for students scholarships will provide a challenge to students to encourage them to give their best effort in all of their academic endeavors

    $48,250 spentof which $48,250 as grants
    90% of program spending
  4. Organization will spend funds on improvement of academic and athletic facilities of the school properties

The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $53,889.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($64k) Expenses 100 ($46k) Net assets 100 ($116k)2020 Revenue 72 ($46k) Expenses 94 ($43k) Net assets 103 ($119k)2021 Revenue 51 ($33k) Expenses 73 ($34k) Net assets 102 ($118k)2022 Revenue 141 ($91k) Expenses 68 ($31k) Net assets 153 ($178k)2023 Revenue 83 ($54k) Expenses 113 ($52k) Net assets 154 ($179k)2024 Revenue 156 ($101k) Expenses 76 ($35k) Net assets 211 ($245k)2025 Revenue 132 ($85k) Expenses 123 ($57k) Net assets 235 ($273k)2026 Revenue 172 ($111k) Expenses 117 ($54k) Net assets 284 ($330k)
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Revenue (172)Expenses (117)Net assets (284)Peer revenue range

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 $179k to $245k (+37%).

$116k
$119k
$118k
$178k
$179k
$245k
$273k
$330k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
2026
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

75% of SOUTHWESTERN SCHOOL FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 24,946 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$18k
’19
$3k
’20
−$669
’21
$59k
’22
$1k
’23
$66k
’24
$28k
’25
$57k
’26
74
months of
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.

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Listed1114141315151415
Joined·+5+0+5+2+2+0+1
No longer listed·2060210
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $50 → $76.

Funder
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'21
'22
'23
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'26*
total
funders
1
1
2
1
1
1

2 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 SOUTHWESTERN SCHOOL FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE’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

SOUTHWESTERN SCHOOL FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% 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

100% 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 SOUTHWESTERN SCHOOL FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE.

100%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.

“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

100% of SOUTHWESTERN SCHOOL FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $60k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

SOUTHWESTERN SCHOOL FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 625 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin51% · top quartile
Months of reserve73.5mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)8% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 625 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2026

Organizations like SOUTHWESTERN SCHOOL FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE

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In Illinois

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

15
board members
0%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

93%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

IL

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Questions and answers

Who funds SOUTHWESTERN SCHOOL FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE?
SOUTHWESTERN SCHOOL FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $59,849 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($59,591). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does SOUTHWESTERN SCHOOL FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $59,849 in grants to SOUTHWESTERN SCHOOL FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SOUTHWESTERN SCHOOL FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE?
AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $59,591 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SOUTHWESTERN SCHOOL FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE 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 2019–2026), and the filings of 2 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