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The Baby Academy

The Baby Academy (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $0 to it, the largest being Illinois Action for Children ($0). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$1.3M
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$0
Net assets
$900k
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What The Baby Academy does

Mission

Providing Social and Educational services to family and children in need.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Child Care Services

    $1,500,859 spent$1,516,074 earned by the program
    100% of program spending
  2. Not described on the e-filed return.

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending
  3. Not described on the e-filed return.

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending
  4. Other program services, not described on the e-filed return.

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,500,859.

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($568k) Expenses 100 ($501k) Net assets 100 ($447k)2018 Revenue 93 ($527k) Expenses 104 ($520k) Net assets 104 ($467k)2019 Revenue 141 ($801k) Expenses 123 ($617k) Net assets 129 ($575k)2020 Revenue 201 ($1.1M) Expenses 118 ($592k) Net assets 380 ($1.7M)2021 Revenue 174 ($989k) Expenses 143 ($715k) Net assets 310 ($1.4M)2022 Revenue 175 ($994k) Expenses 171 ($855k) Net assets 298 ($1.3M)2023 Revenue 267 ($1.5M) Expenses 300 ($1.5M) Net assets 301 ($1.3M)2024 Revenue 225 ($1.3M) Expenses 186 ($930k) Net assets 201 ($900k)
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Revenue (225)Expenses (186)Net assets (201)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 2019 to 2020, from $660k to $1.9M (+190%).

$549k
$555k
$660k
$1.9M
$1.6M
$1.6M
$1.6M
$1.2M
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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 0% · 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 18% · 2021 0% · 2022 0% · 2023 0% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

0% of The Baby Academy’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 11,793 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$68k
’17
$7k
’18
$184k
’19
$549k
’20
$274k
’21
$139k
’22
$15k
’23
$348k
’24
4.8
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.

Chief executive

R Mark Curington

Executive director

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed33333322
Joined·+0+0+0+0+0··
No longer listed·00000··
03Who funds it
04Its place in the field

Against its field

The Baby Academy runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,263 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin27% · top quartile
Months of reserve4.8mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)12% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,263 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Organizations like The Baby Academy

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

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

5
board members
80%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Screen this organization

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Questions and answers

Who funds The Baby Academy?
The Baby Academy (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $0 to it, the largest being Illinois Action for Children ($0). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does The Baby Academy have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $0 in grants to The Baby Academy, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of The Baby Academy?
Illinois Action for Children is the largest funder on record, with $0 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like The Baby Academy 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), 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