Illinois · Nonprofit
AFTER SCHOOL MATTERS INC
AFTER SCHOOL MATTERS INC (Illinois) receives grants from 149 organizations whose IRS filings report $29,354,984 to it, the largest being HOBSONLUCAS FAMILY FOUNDATION ($5,944,323). 88 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
AFTER SCHOOL MATTERS INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,681 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,681 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- The Siragusa Family Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
- Finnegan Family Foundationshared funders
- Invest for Kids Incportfolio match
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.
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: 2017 66% · 2018 49% · 2019 59% · 2020 77% · 2021 75% · 2022 65% · 2023 70% · 2024 80% · 2025 68%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of AFTER SCHOOL MATTERS INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 32 funders to 58 funders, grant income rose $1.3M → $3.6M.
19 of 149 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $4.5M from 5 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Chicago Community Trust); $25k from one payer (an institutional transfer, not a grant programme, largest Conagra Brands Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money AFTER SCHOOL MATTERS INC raised.
From the IRS filings of AFTER SCHOOL MATTERS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 149 funders by total. 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
AFTER SCHOOL MATTERS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 46% · 2018 59% · 2019 39% · 2020 13% · 2021 45% · 2022 55% · 2023 21% — diversifying over time.
“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
44% of AFTER SCHOOL MATTERS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
58% of AFTER SCHOOL MATTERS INC's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 149 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The Siragusa Family Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchIL · backs 67 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Finnegan Family Foundationshared fundersIL · backs 47 organizations that share your funders
- Invest for Kids Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Vitale Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Helaine Edgar Opportunity Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- D and R Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fulk Family Foundation Incshared fundersNE · backs 100 organizations that share your funders
- Frank Family Foundationshared fundersIL · backs 55 organizations that share your funders
- Lloyd a Fry Foundationshared fundersIL · backs 168 organizations that share your funders
- Dr Scholl Foundationshared fundersIL · backs 130 organizations that share your funders
- Fifth Third Chicagoland Foundationshared funderslocalIL · backs 74 organizations that share your funders · funds 223 organizations near you
- Walder Foundationshared fundersDE · backs 58 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like AFTER SCHOOL MATTERS INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Asm Qalicb Inc - · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AFTER SCHOOL MATTERS 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds AFTER SCHOOL MATTERS INC?
- AFTER SCHOOL MATTERS INC (Illinois) receives grants from 149 organizations whose IRS filings report $29,354,984 to it, the largest being HOBSONLUCAS FAMILY FOUNDATION ($5,944,323). 88 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AFTER SCHOOL MATTERS INC have?
- IRS filings report 149 organizations giving $29,354,984 in grants to AFTER SCHOOL MATTERS INC, 88 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AFTER SCHOOL MATTERS INC?
- HOBSONLUCAS FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5,944,323 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AFTER SCHOOL MATTERS 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.
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 149funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing