Illinois · Nonprofit
Bronzeville Fencing Academy
Bronzeville Fencing Academy (Illinois) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,021 to it, the largest being DEW FOUNDATION ($10,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $135k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $25k
- Net assets
- $892
What Bronzeville Fencing Academy does
Mission
The Bronzeville Fencing Academys Academy mission is to provide and mobilize services to meet the existing needs of at-risk and underserved youth in the community; contributing to the personal growth of its participants through the development of character-building exercises and tools that promote self-respect academic excellence and positive social skills and behaviors.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Bronzeville Fencing Academy Academy has served the Chicagoland area since 2016. Its mission is providing and mobilizing services to meet the existing needs of at-risk and underserved youth in the community. As a youth-centric community-based organization the Academy serves over 700 youth annually through a broad continuum of wraparound programming responsive to the demographics of the community. Services include out-of-school time programming education and athletic development workforce dev elopment and violence reduction.
$0 spent
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $539 to $2k (+263%).
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.
15% of Bronzeville Fencing Academy’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (83% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Malcolm Muhammad
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $5k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 Bronzeville Fencing Academy’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
Bronzeville Fencing Academy leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
60% of Bronzeville Fencing Academy's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $21 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
Bronzeville Fencing Academy has grown faster than three-quarters of the 3,482 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,482 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Bronzeville Fencing Academy
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.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Bronzeville Fencing Academy: 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 Bronzeville Fencing Academy?
- Bronzeville Fencing Academy (Illinois) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,021 to it, the largest being DEW FOUNDATION ($10,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Bronzeville Fencing Academy have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $25,021 in grants to Bronzeville Fencing Academy, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Bronzeville Fencing Academy?
- DEW FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Bronzeville Fencing Academy 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 FY2025 (financials across 2023–2025), and the filings of 4 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