Illinois · Nonprofit
ACE MENTOR PROGRAM OF ILLINOIS INC
ACE MENTOR PROGRAM OF ILLINOIS INC (Illinois) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $400,595 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($200,345). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $560k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $401k
- Net assets
- $317k
What Ace Mentor Program of Illinois Inc does
Mission
To engage, excite, and enlighten high school students to pursue careers in architecture, engineering, and construction through mentoring, scholarships and continued support for their advancement into the industry.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Awarded 60 college scholarships for the 2023-2024 school year.
$264,859 spentof which $244,735 as grants56% of program spendingMentoring- this is a year-round after-school program that introduces high school students from the chicago area to career opportunities in architecture, construction and engineering. Throughout the 17 weeks of the program, students work alongside professional mentors and their peers from across the region to respond to a design challenge. Select students are awarded college scholarships, paid internships, and design build apprenticeships to encourage their career pathway in the ace professions.during the 2023-2024 school year, 309 students from numerous citywide high schools (primarily chicago public schools) participated on teams with mentors from professional a/e/c firms.
$93,800 spent20% of program spendingA select group of the students from the after school program apply to and are accepted into a design build workshop program over the summer. 24 student scholarships and 4 teaching assistant scholarships were awarded during the 2023-2024 school year for a design build workshop program that took place over the summer of 2024. The students and college aged teaching assistants, who are ace alumni, work collaboratively to design and build something to specifically meet the needs of a community-based client. Students in the 6-week program are awarded a one-time $1,500 college scholarship, and teaching assistants are awarded a one-time $2,500 scholarship for their participation in the program.
$94,193 spentof which $46,000 as grants20% of program spendingAce has put much effort into tracking the success of our alumni - students who have graduated from our high school program and are now in college or in the profession. To this end, we've created programs that assist with networking, internship searches, and resume and portfolio workshops to support these alumni and help them be successful in their career pathway.
$18,082 spent4% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $470,934.
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 $619k to $454k (−27%).
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: 2022 4% · 2023 4% · 2024 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of ACE MENTOR PROGRAM OF ILLINOIS INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations 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. 7 of the last 8 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.
Chief executive
Krisann Rehbein
Executive director
Board chair
Criss Paccione-Anderson
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $12k → $78k.
2 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 55% 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 ACE MENTOR PROGRAM OF ILLINOIS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
ACE MENTOR PROGRAM OF ILLINOIS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
59% 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 ACE MENTOR PROGRAM OF ILLINOIS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 57% · 2018 100% · 2020 53% · 2021 100% · 2022 55% · 2023 64% — growing more concentrated.
“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.
How long its funders stay
20% of ACE MENTOR PROGRAM OF ILLINOIS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
55% of ACE MENTOR PROGRAM OF ILLINOIS INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $180k that is directly attributable, 87% of it comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $220k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is 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.
Against its field
ACE MENTOR PROGRAM OF ILLINOIS INC has grown faster than half of the 22,812 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,812 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like ACE MENTOR PROGRAM OF ILLINOIS INC
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
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ACE MENTOR PROGRAM OF ILLINOIS INC: 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 ACE MENTOR PROGRAM OF ILLINOIS INC?
- ACE MENTOR PROGRAM OF ILLINOIS INC (Illinois) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $400,595 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($200,345). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ACE MENTOR PROGRAM OF ILLINOIS INC have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $400,595 in grants to ACE MENTOR PROGRAM OF ILLINOIS INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ACE MENTOR PROGRAM OF ILLINOIS INC?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $200,345 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ACE MENTOR PROGRAM OF ILLINOIS INC 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 11 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