Illinois · Nonprofit
AFTER SCHOOL MATTERS INC
AFTER SCHOOL MATTERS INC (Illinois) receives grants from 152 organizations whose IRS filings report $32,045,140 to it, the largest being HOBSONLUCAS FAMILY FOUNDATION ($5,944,323). 91 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $48M
- Funders on record
- 152
- Grants received
- $32M
- Net assets
- $70M
What After School Matters Inc does
Mission
To provide chicago public high school teens opportunities to explore and develop their talents, while gaining critical skills for work, college and beyond. We achieve our mission by: -designing and delivering high quality, hands-on, project-based apprenticeship programs in a variety of content areas, including the arts, science, sports, technology and communications. -engaging skilled professionals as instructors who support teens' growth and development in an intentional and meaningful way. -aligning and maximizing the resources of an extensive network of public-private partnerships to support coordinated and sustainable investment in youth development through school and community-based programming. -focusing on continuous quality improvement, data-driven and cost-effective decisions, strengthening skills to encourage improved academic outcomes, and positive impacts for teens, schools and communities we serve.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
This year, after school matters ran 1,645 high-quality programs that provided 24,000+ opportunities to 17,000+ teens across the city of chicago. These paid afterschool and summer opportunities provided chicago high school teens with a space to explore their passions and develop their talents in the arts, communications and leadership, sports, and stem. Through project-based programs led by industry experts, teens gained independence and essential life skills for work, college, and beyond. Programs take place during the critical hours after school and during the summer months when teens are otherwise most vulnerable. More than 96% of our teens identify as a person of color, and nearly three in four live in a high-poverty community. 92% of teens reported participating in asm made them more hopeful about their future. 97% of asm graduating seniors reported having plans for after graduation with 87% planning to attend college or a trade/vocational program. After school matters has become a vital part of chicago through our tens of thousands of impactful program opportunities at sites throughout the city including at chicago public schools, chicago park district and chicago public…
$33,647,697 spentof which $6,079,313 as grants$18,509 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $33,647,697.
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 2024 to 2025, from $64M to $78M (+22%).
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
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
Mary E Caron
Chief executive officer
Board chair
Mellody Hobson
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
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 152 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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: $4.8M 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 152 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 19% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 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
46% of AFTER SCHOOL MATTERS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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.
Against its field
AFTER SCHOOL MATTERS INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,794 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,794 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like AFTER SCHOOL MATTERS 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
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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds AFTER SCHOOL MATTERS INC?
- AFTER SCHOOL MATTERS INC (Illinois) receives grants from 152 organizations whose IRS filings report $32,045,140 to it, the largest being HOBSONLUCAS FAMILY FOUNDATION ($5,944,323). 91 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AFTER SCHOOL MATTERS INC have?
- IRS filings report 152 organizations giving $32,045,140 in grants to AFTER SCHOOL MATTERS INC, 91 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 152 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing