Form 990 for tax year 2024
Filed by CAROLE ROBERTSON CENTER FOR LEARNING.
Totals
- Total revenue
- $40,743,154
- Total expenses
- $38,627,077
- Contributions and grants received
- $40,458,987
- Grants paid
- $6,911,478
- Program services expenses (Part IX)
- $31,855,177
- Management and general expenses
- $5,905,178
- Fundraising expenses
- $866,722
- Program service expenses (Part III)
- $31,855,177
Program services were 82.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
Listed in Part VII
-
Carter Culver
Board Chair
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 3
-
Jessica Gaito
Board Vice Chair
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 3
-
John Blasi
Treasurer
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 3
-
Christine Brambila
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Contessa Houston
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Cornelia Grumman
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Dave Robertson
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
John Smith
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Karen Salmon
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Kelsey Malnati Howell
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Kurt Mamon
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Larry Mages
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Margie McTigue
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Maribel Lopez
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Paul Foley
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Rani Morrison Williams
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Rya Smith
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Scott Ahlman
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Stefanie Kurse Curley
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Dianne Robertson Braddock
Honorary
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0
-
Jamellah Braddock Ellis
Honorary
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0
-
Bela Mote
Chief Executive Officer
- Total calculated
- $326,304
- From this org
- $307,834
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $18,470
- Hours/week
- 40
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $307,834
- Bonus
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Deferred
- $18,470
- Nontaxable benefits
- $0
- Filer's total
- $326,304
-
Sonja Crum Knight
Chief Program & Impact Off
- Total calculated
- $197,353
- From this org
- $186,074
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $11,279
- Hours/week
- 40
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $186,074
- Bonus
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Deferred
- $3,840
- Nontaxable benefits
- $7,439
- Filer's total
- $197,353
-
Chris Cannova
Chief Administrative Officer
- Total calculated
- $183,427
- From this org
- $166,977
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $16,450
- Hours/week
- 40
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $166,977
- Bonus
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Deferred
- $9,965
- Nontaxable benefits
- $6,485
- Filer's total
- $183,427
-
Laura Hool
Chief of Staff
- Total calculated
- $173,652
- From this org
- $163,687
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $9,965
- Hours/week
- 40
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $163,687
- Bonus
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Deferred
- $9,965
- Nontaxable benefits
- $0
- Filer's total
- $173,652
-
Paul DiCaro
Fiscal Services Compliance Officer
- Total calculated
- $126,694
- From this org
- $126,694
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 40
-
Ashley Nazarak
VP of Program Scaling
- Total calculated
- $160,721
- From this org
- $160,721
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 40
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $160,721
- Bonus
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Deferred
- $0
- Nontaxable benefits
- $0
- Filer's total
- $160,721
-
Meghan Helder
VP of Monitoring & Support
- Total calculated
- $128,505
- From this org
- $128,505
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 40
-
Erica Rangel
Senior Director of Development
- Total calculated
- $112,829
- From this org
- $112,829
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 40
-
Brenda Berman
Senior Dir of Program Marketing
- Total calculated
- $109,230
- From this org
- $109,230
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 40
-
Julissa Cruz
VP of Community Based Advocacy
- Total calculated
- $108,858
- From this org
- $108,858
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 40
-
Maria Alicia Rodriguez
Senior Director of Family Support & Engagement
- Total calculated
- $100,002
- From this org
- $100,002
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 40
Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us.
Schedule J
Answered yes
- 3 · Approval by the board or compensation committee
Answered no
- 4a · Severance or change-of-control payment
- 4b · Supplemental nonqualified retirement plan
- 4c · Equity-based compensation arrangement
- 5a · Pay contingent on this organization's revenues
- 5b · Pay contingent on a related organization's revenues
- 6a · Pay contingent on this organization's net earnings
- 6b · Pay contingent on a related organization's net earnings
- 7 · Other non-fixed payments
- 8 · Paid under the initial-contract exception
Part I's answers as filed. A line not listed was left unanswered; on lines 1a and 3 that means the box was not checked.
Grants on this return
-
$4,161,630
Educational
-
$635,841
Educational
-
$315,796
Educational
-
$233,707
Educational
-
Positive Attitudes Working Inc
$184,315
Educational
-
Serving All Families Everywhere 2
$151,165
Educational
-
$102,433
Educational
-
Educational
-
$85,287
Educational
-
$82,099
Educational
The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.
Related organizations on this return
Schedule R Part II: tax-exempt organizations related to the filer by control. It does not record shared board members or money.
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Carole Robertson Center for Learning Foundation
501(c)(3) · Operates exclusively for charitable and educational purposes · IL
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Carole Robertson Center for Learning Support Corporation
501(c)(3) · Operates exclusively for charitable and educational purposes · IL
Provenance
- Return type
- form_990
- Tax year
- 2024
- Filed
- 17 February 2026
- IRS schema version
- 2024v5.5
- Source object
- 202600489349301625
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