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SUMMIT SCHOOL INC

SUMMIT SCHOOL INC (Illinois) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $782,282 to it, the largest being EFS FOUNDATION ($327,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$4.3M
Funders on record
11
Grants received
$782k
Net assets
$5.0M
10/11 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 13%
01What it does

What Summit School Inc does

Mission

Summit school provides a highly individualized and structured setting for elementary, junior high and high school students.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. The learning disability program is designed to both remediate specific learning disabilities and present the student with the content knowledge found in the regular high school curriculum.

    $3,667,448 spent$3,197,074 earned by the program
    85% of program spending
  2. Summit center provides a positive learning environment through structured play activities for children ages 3-7. Summit center includes several programs designed to assist children with diverse developmental and educational problems and needs.

    $656,338 spent
    15% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,323,786.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($2.7M) Expenses 100 ($2.7M) Net assets 100 ($5.7M)2018 Revenue 106 ($2.8M) Expenses 99 ($2.7M) Net assets 104 ($6.0M)2019 Revenue 100 ($2.6M) Expenses 101 ($2.8M) Net assets 101 ($5.8M)2020 Revenue 108 ($2.9M) Expenses 105 ($2.9M) Net assets 103 ($5.9M)2021 Revenue 101 ($2.7M) Expenses 108 ($3.0M) Net assets 109 ($6.2M)2022 Revenue 103 ($2.7M) Expenses 120 ($3.3M) Net assets 89 ($5.1M)2023 Revenue 113 ($3.0M) Expenses 121 ($3.3M) Net assets 85 ($4.8M)2024 Revenue 161 ($4.3M) Expenses 161 ($4.4M) Net assets 87 ($5.0M)
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Revenue (161)Expenses (161)Net assets (87)

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 $6.3M to $5.2M (−17%).

$5.7M
$6.0M
$5.8M
$6.3M
$6.3M
$5.2M
$4.9M
$5.2M
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 13% · 2018 11% · 2019 18% · 2020 16% · 2021 33% · 2022 20% · 2023 16% · 2024 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$81k
’17
$113k
’18
−$119k
’19
$2k
’20
−$286k
’21
−$561k
’22
−$301k
’23
−$140k
’24
0.2
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.

Board chair

Robert Hansen

Chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed171913101313138
Joined·+2+0+3+4+1+2+1
No longer listed·0661126
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $30k → $53k.

1 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 SUMMIT SCHOOL INC’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

SUMMIT SCHOOL INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

42%
largest funder
87%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2018 57% · 2019 46% · 2020 81% · 2021 63% · 2022 56% · 2023 47% — 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.

How long its funders stay

50% of SUMMIT SCHOOL INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 91% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

56% of SUMMIT SCHOOL INC's grant income comes from Illinois funders.

IL
NV
MO
AZ
TN
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’22
’23
Illinois out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $782 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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

Organizations like SUMMIT SCHOOL INC

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

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

88% of spending goes to programs.

Program 88%Management 12%Fundraising 0%

Governance

6
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

IL

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Questions and answers

Who funds SUMMIT SCHOOL INC?
SUMMIT SCHOOL INC (Illinois) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $782,282 to it, the largest being EFS FOUNDATION ($327,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SUMMIT SCHOOL INC have?
IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $782,282 in grants to SUMMIT SCHOOL INC, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SUMMIT SCHOOL INC?
EFS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $327,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SUMMIT SCHOOL INC 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), 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