ACADEMY FOR URBAN SCHOOL LEADERSHIP

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

B90

Classification

2000

Street

2247 N HALSTED ST

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

• Teacher Development - AUSL created the Chicago Teacher Residency (CTR) program, which is a partnership between AUSL, Chicago Public Schools (CPS), and DePaul University. This nationally recognized program recruits and trains teachers with the long-term passion and skillset to serve in under-resourced communities and improve educational outcomes for students. In the fiscal year ended June 30, 2025, the CTR graduated 105 resident teachers, a 44% increase from the prior year. The program is a year-long resident teacher training program that combines a master's degree and significant classroom experience under the guidance of a trained and experienced mentor teacher. The residents receive intensive practice and individualized coaching while spending four days a week in CPS classrooms, observing and practicing the skills and strategies necessary to be an effective teacher. The CTR model also engages residents in graduate-level coursework to earn a master's degree with DePaul University. The graduates of the CTR have training and experience that far exceeds that of traditionally trained teachers and are uniquely prepared to transform student outcomes through teaching. As of June 30, 2025, AUSL has graduated 1,549 resident teachers. In the fiscal year ended June 30, 2025, the CTR graduated 105 resident teachers, a 44% increase from the prior year. During the year ended June 30, 2025, AUSL established the Lake County Teacher Residency (LCTR) in Lake County, IL, using donor-restricted funds. The LCTR mirrors the CTR model, providing the same year-long residency, graduate-level coursework through DePaul University, intensive classroom experience, and mentorship. As part of the program's launch, AUSL recruited and enrolled a class of 20 resident teachers who began training in schools in Round Lake, North Chicago, and Waukegan in August 2025.

  Expenses $6,111,589 · Grants $3,312,037 · Revenue $4,638,910

• Advisory Services - Through its Advisory Services and the LiberatED Way approach, AUSL supported forward-thinking school and systems-level leaders to authentically partner with their school communities in defining, calibrating on, and implementing a student-centered experience that led to whole-child success. AUSL provided services that included strategic consulting with district leaders alongside a variety of job-embedded professional learning experiences for the district and school-based talent that were coherently aligned to AUSL's purpose and value proposition. Specific project focus areas included, but were not limited to, establishment of foundational school structures for culture and instruction, development of strategies that foster authentic family and community partnerships, and implementation of robust and aligned teacher development systems. During the year ending June 30, 2025, AUSL suspended its Advisory Services, including the LiberatED Way programming. While this programming was not directly funded by the terminated federal grants, the loss of significant federal revenue at the organizational level required AUSL to reallocate resources and prioritize its core mission of training teachers and supporting high-quality educators through the teacher residency program.

  Expenses $1,143,427 · Revenue $652,209

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

The first 25 listed. 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, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — 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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

• 2024

  Revenue

  $9,688,015

  Expenses

  $9,995,634

  Contributions

  $4,116,934

  Grants paid

  $3,312,037

• 2023

  Revenue

  $10,429,338

  Expenses

  $9,761,530

  Contributions

  $5,209,444

  Grants paid

  $2,574,136

• 2022

  Revenue

  $9,535,591

  Expenses

  $8,981,787

  Contributions

  $2,772,745

  Grants paid

  $1,716,770

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

• 2021 · 990

  Revenue

  $10,302,671

  Expenses

  $8,013,520

  Assets (EOY)

  $9,385,123

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $8,485,774

  Expenses

  $10,155,149

  Assets (EOY)

  $7,860,639

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $7,566,015

  Expenses

  $10,454,328

  Assets (EOY)

  $9,688,671

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $12,504,516

  Expenses

  $13,466,465

  Assets (EOY)

  $12,011,292

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $11,712,205

  Expenses

  $12,583,444

  Assets (EOY)

  $12,741,121

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $10,701,291

  Expenses

  $15,450,281

  Assets (EOY)

  $13,574,151

• 2015 · 990

  Revenue

  $19,701,474

  Expenses

  $18,553,701

  Assets (EOY)

  $18,672,808

• 2014 · 990

  Revenue

  $20,507,476

  Expenses

  $22,137,854

  Assets (EOY)

  $17,507,997

• 2013 · 990

  Revenue

  $27,722,131

  Expenses

  $22,631,477

  Assets (EOY)

  $19,276,137

• 2012 · 990

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  $23,527,554

  Assets (EOY)

  $14,129,918

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

• CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS

  $96,093

  2022 · Curricular enhancements for tutoring, social emotional support, college readiness, arts and athletics.

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

• DEPAUL UNIVERSITY

  $803,582

  2023 · SUB-GRANT

• DEPAUL UNIVERSITY

  $476,171

  2022 · GENERAL SUPPORT, GRANT SUB-AWARD

• NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TR

  $410,500

  2022 · EDUCATION

• NEW SCHOOLS FUND

  $350,000

  2022 · LEARNING SOLUTIONS

• VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM

  $155,000

  2023 · FOR RECIPIENT'S EXEMPT PURPOSE

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $155,000

  2023 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• THE CHICAGO COMMUNITY TRUST

  $125,250

  2024 · General support for programs, operations and other charitable purposes

• THE CHICAGO COMMUNITY TRUST

  $105,500

  2023 · General support for programs, operations and other charitable purposes

• THE CHICAGO COMMUNITY TRUST

  $100,750

  2022 · General Operating Support

• ROBERT R MCCORMICK FOUNDATION

  $77,500

  2022 · FOR THE PATHWAYS TO POSTSECONDARY SUCCESS PROGRAM, FOR GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

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