Illinois · Nonprofit
THE BLACKS ACADEMY OF EXCELLENCE
THE BLACKS ACADEMY OF EXCELLENCE (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,500 to it, the largest being TRUSTMARK FOUNDATION ($2,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
THE BLACKS ACADEMY OF EXCELLENCE's revenue grew 3376400% between 2019 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,609 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Healthcare Foundation of Northern Lake Countyshared funderslocal
- Baltimore Children and Youth Fund Incportfolio match
- No Boundaries Coalition Incportfolio match
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.
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: 2024 91% · 2025 74%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of THE BLACKS ACADEMY OF EXCELLENCE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of THE BLACKS ACADEMY OF EXCELLENCE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 1 of 2 funders by total. 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
100% of THE BLACKS ACADEMY OF EXCELLENCE's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 2 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Healthcare Foundation of Northern Lake Countyshared funderslocalIL · backs 26 organizations that share your funders · funds 33 organizations near you
- Baltimore Children and Youth Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- No Boundaries Coalition Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ward Economic Development Corporationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Greater Auburn Gresham Development Corporationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Urban League of Greater Atlanta Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Baton Rouge Alliance for Studentsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Beygood Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- 100 Black Men of America Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Prosperity Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Cleveland Avenue Foundation for Education Groupportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Portland Opportunities Indust Centerportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like THE BLACKS ACADEMY OF EXCELLENCE
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
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 THE BLACKS ACADEMY OF EXCELLENCE: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds THE BLACKS ACADEMY OF EXCELLENCE?
- THE BLACKS ACADEMY OF EXCELLENCE (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,500 to it, the largest being TRUSTMARK FOUNDATION ($2,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE BLACKS ACADEMY OF EXCELLENCE have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $2,500 in grants to THE BLACKS ACADEMY OF EXCELLENCE.
- Who is the largest funder of THE BLACKS ACADEMY OF EXCELLENCE?
- TRUSTMARK FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE BLACKS ACADEMY OF 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 FY2025 (financials across 2019–2025), and the filings of 2funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing