Illinois · Nonprofit
TCS Education System
TCS Education System (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $50,000 to it, the largest being BERGMARK FOUNDATION ($50,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $80M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $50k
- Net assets
- $110M
What TCS Education System does
Mission
TCS Education System prepares innovative, engaged, purposeful agents of change who serve our global community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
TCS Education System d/b/a The Community Solution is a private, nonprofit system of colleges advancing student success and community impact. The System serves primarily as a supporting organization and central provider of services to several related institutions of higher learning. Supporting functions include human resources, finance, accounting, information technology, administration, marketing, student services, facilities, and student accounts.
$13,093,862 spent$78,808,989 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $13,093,862.
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 2022 to 2023, from $59M to $122M (+107%).
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 TCS Education System’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 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
Edward Bergmark
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $5k.
From the IRS filings of TCS Education System’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
TCS Education System draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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
TCS Education System has grown faster than half of the 3,758 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like TCS Education System
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
17% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 3 states
Part of a family of 10 related entities
- The Chicago School - Washington DC Inc · exempt
- The Chicago School of Professional Psychology · exempt
- Kansas Health Science University Inc · exempt
- Saybrook University · exempt
- TCS Education - Texas Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for TCS Education System: 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 TCS Education System?
- TCS Education System (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $50,000 to it, the largest being BERGMARK FOUNDATION ($50,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TCS Education System have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $50,000 in grants to TCS Education System, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TCS Education System?
- BERGMARK FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TCS Education System 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), 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