Illinois · Nonprofit
TOTS EXPRESS LEARNING CENTER
TOTS EXPRESS LEARNING CENTER (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $0 to it, the largest being GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ($0). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $704k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $0
- Net assets
- $327k
What Tots Express Learning Center does
Mission
To provide youth development programs and working with children giving them the opportunity to reach their full educational potenial. We achive this goal by begining instruction and developmental skills at an early age. this will allow the children to establish an independent mode of acting and thinking. This early training will be the key to their success in life.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
We provided child development training for 14 Infants, 19 toddlers, 16 two years old, 28 three to five-year,-old and 15 after-school students These numbers reflect the closing of the center due to corvid
$566,618 spent$703,694 earned by the program100% of program spendingall in part 1 same as last year
$0 spent0% of program spendingall in part 1 same as last year
$0 spent0% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $566,618.
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 $171k to $252k (+48%).
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 TOTS EXPRESS LEARNING CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (57% 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.
Against its field
TOTS EXPRESS LEARNING CENTER has grown faster than half of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like TOTS EXPRESS LEARNING CENTER
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
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for TOTS EXPRESS LEARNING CENTER: 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 TOTS EXPRESS LEARNING CENTER?
- TOTS EXPRESS LEARNING CENTER (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $0 to it, the largest being GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ($0). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TOTS EXPRESS LEARNING CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $0 in grants to TOTS EXPRESS LEARNING CENTER, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TOTS EXPRESS LEARNING CENTER?
- GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY is the largest funder on record, with $0 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TOTS EXPRESS LEARNING CENTER 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