· Public charity
Role Model Movement Inc (NFP)
To inspire youth, empower communities and build a better world one block at a time.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Gifted Hands Hair Creations LLC | $7,500 |
| Life Through A Lens | $6,200 |
| Absolute Athletics | $6,000 |
| 1700 East 85th Block Club | $6,000 |
| 600 Block of Drake Ave Block Club Party | $5,800 |
| The 46th Street Block Club & Community Garden | $5,800 |
| Lotus Neighbors for Action | $5,800 |
| Evans Elite Block Club | $5,600 |
| 7600 S Chappel Ave Block Club | $5,600 |
| 1000-1100 N Monticello Block Club | $5,600 |
| ChiLOVe | $5,600 |
| 6500-6559 S Mozart Community Block Club | $5,600 |
| 77th King Drive Block Club | $5,600 |
| 74th and Indiana Block Club | $5,600 |
| 1000 N Harding | $5,600 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY21–22, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +394% since the first grant, against +30% for those funded once.
24 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- GHGifted Hands Hair Creation LLC4× · 2021–2024 · $36k
- IHIN HIS HANDS RESOURCE CENTER INC2× · 2021–2022 · $26k
- TOTHINK OUTSIDE DA BLOCK INC2× · 2021–2023 · $25k · revenue +394%
Funded once
- TCThe Critical Thinking Child LLCone grant, 2021 · $25k
- CCHRISTIANAIREone grant, 2021 · $25k
- PAPullman Artsone grant, 2021 · $25k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Igniting Minds works to close the educational and nutritional gaps that contribute to generational poverty in Chicago through academic enrichment, workforce development, food insecurity programming, and cultural exchange.
Hoop dreams aims to empower and expose youth from underserved communities to uplifting experiences. We strengthen participants social and interpersonal skills through various enrichment programs
Project LOVE Chicago strives to break the cycle of poverty decrease violent crimes and increase youth academic outcomes. We do this by providing academic athletic and professional resources to vulnerable minority populations throughout the…
Provide resources and tools to help african american youth from underserved communities aged 14-24 achieve economic sustainability through education, career, and workforce development.
The purpose of the organization is the following: To combat poverty, violence and lack of education in underserved and at risk communities in Illinois.
Free soccer programing to youth and young adults
To provide outreach services and resources
Youth-led Cultivators
Urban Male Network is a nationally recognized organization dedicated to uplifting young men from urban communities through mentorship, education, and service. By redefining the image of the urban male, the network fosters leadership,…
Violence Prevention in Chicago
How this is measured
34 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 34 of the 178 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Allies for Community Business Inc · Robert R McCormick Foundation · University of Chicago Medical Center · Grow Greater Englewood Inc · Field Foundation of Illinois · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Crossroads Fund Inc · Chicago Foundation for Women · The Joyce Foundation · Chicago Beyond Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Role Model Movement Inc (NFP) funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Role Model Movement Inc (NFP). Bigger dots raise more.
- The Community Builders Inc: 4% of income from government
How this is measured
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