Illinois · Nonprofit
The Chicago School of Professional Psychology
The Chicago School of Professional Psychology (Illinois) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $889,344 to it, the largest being ILLINOIS ALCOHOL & OTHER DRUG ABUSE PROFESSIONAL CERT ASSOCIATION INC ($448,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
The Chicago School of Professional Psychology's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,681 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, 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.
- The V Foundationshared funders
- Dudley-Vehmeyer-Brown Memorial Foundationportfolio match
- Seymour a Cohen Family Foundationportfolio match
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.
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: 2017 2% · 2018 2% · 2019 2% · 2020 2% · 2021 1% · 2022 5% · 2023 2% · 2024 2% · 2025 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
5% of The Chicago School of Professional Psychology’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
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2022: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $96k → $247k.
2 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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 The Chicago School of Professional Psychology’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 8 of 9 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.
How concentrated its funding is
The Chicago School of Professional Psychology leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 89%; 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 The Chicago School of Professional Psychology.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 84% · 2020 100% · 2022 62% — 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.
Where its funders are
56% of The Chicago School of Professional Psychology's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $81k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 statesis 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.
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 9 funders put you under-funded among the 225 organizations that share them.
- The V Foundationshared fundersNC · backs 46 organizations that share your funders
- Dudley-Vehmeyer-Brown Memorial Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Seymour a Cohen Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Illinois Network of Charter Schoolsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Loyola University of Chicagoportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Depaul Universityportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Best Portion Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Fletcher Jones Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sam & Mary Palumbo Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Hugh and Hazel Darling Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lauren Catuzzi Grandcolas Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Alice & Jp Wang Foundationportfolio 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.
Government funding The Chicago School of Professional Psychology receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $4.7M on record.
- Department of Education$2.3M
- Department of Health and Human Services$1.6M
- National Science Foundation$790k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like The Chicago School of Professional Psychology
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
65% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 10 related entities
- The Chicago School - California Inc · exempt
- TCS Education System · exempt
- The Chicago School - Washington DC Inc · exempt
- Pacific Oaks Education Corporation · exempt
- The Colleges of Law · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for The Chicago School of Professional Psychology: 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 Chicago School of Professional Psychology?
- The Chicago School of Professional Psychology (Illinois) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $889,344 to it, the largest being ILLINOIS ALCOHOL & OTHER DRUG ABUSE PROFESSIONAL CERT ASSOCIATION INC ($448,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The Chicago School of Professional Psychology have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $889,344 in grants to The Chicago School of Professional Psychology, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Chicago School of Professional Psychology?
- ILLINOIS ALCOHOL & OTHER DRUG ABUSE PROFESSIONAL CERT ASSOCIATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $448,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Chicago School of Professional Psychology 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 9funders 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