California · Nonprofit
CHAPTER TWO
CHAPTER TWO (California) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,349,868 to it, the largest being THE CONNIE RICE INSTITUTE FOR URBAN PEACE ($1,715,602). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.6M
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $2.3M
- Net assets
- $233k
What Chapter Two does
Mission
CHAPTER TWO INCs mission is to provide residents of our communities with healthy and positive alternatives to gang association juvenile delinquency and youth gang-related crimes. Working through a network of community agencies and with other neighborhood organizations we provide assistance to local community residents in preventing reducing and-or eliminating gang violence.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Chapter Two Inc has consistently been contracted to affect change with the target population through the Los Angeles Gang Reduction and Youth Development GRYD. In 2023 the California Community Foundation and the Amity Foundation provided resources to expand our capacity to provide intervention and prevention services to areas that have different population dynamics and thus could not be effectively included in the work funded by the GRYD. We successfully serviced over 500 youth. More Specifically we have taken 250 youths through our gang reduction and youth development programs 215 or 86% of them completing the program. With the help of staff and volunteers we collected data on 175 youth and found that among the reasons that youth would not finish the program are youth refusal 30% non-attendance or inappropriate behavior sessions 30% the family moved 20% and youth criminal charges 10%. Chapter TWO Inc. has also been contracted to assist the Urban Peace Institute to provide peace keeping mentoring and food resources to 2000 disadvantaged and vulnerable youths and families in central Los Angeles.
$2,171,837 spent$2,129,758 earned by the program94% of program spendingSafe Passage : LAUSD contracted CHAPTER TWO INC to ensure a safe environment around the perimeters of the Fremont HS Dymally HS and Maya Angelou HS in central Los Angeles in the mornings before the start of the school day and in the afternoon when it en.
$128,683 spent$213,785 earned by the program6% of program spendingSummer Night Lights: During the Summer we provide services through the Summer Night Lights Program of the Los Angeles GRYD Foundation in order to increase community resilient to the influence of gangs and to make a deeper positive impact in neighborhoods in the GRYD zones. We provided meals and other resources to 1000 people as well as facilitated games for the youth and families in attendance at the Mt. Carmel and Green Meadows parks in Los Angeles
$9,600 spent$9,057 earned by the program0% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,310,120.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2023 to 2024, from $510k to $819k (+61%).
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: 2021 46% · 2022 91% · 2023 96% · 2024 100%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of CHAPTER TWO’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (61% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 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
Jerald Cavitt
President Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $43k → $230k.
3 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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 CHAPTER TWO’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 7 of 8 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
CHAPTER TWO leans on a few funders — its largest provides 73% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% 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 CHAPTER TWO.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 58% · 2022 50% · 2023 88% — 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.
Where its funders are
98% of CHAPTER TWO's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $503k 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
CHAPTER TWO has grown faster than three-quarters of the 4,203 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,203 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like CHAPTER TWO
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 CHAPTER TWO: 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 CHAPTER TWO?
- CHAPTER TWO (California) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,349,868 to it, the largest being THE CONNIE RICE INSTITUTE FOR URBAN PEACE ($1,715,602). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHAPTER TWO have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $2,349,868 in grants to CHAPTER TWO, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHAPTER TWO?
- THE CONNIE RICE INSTITUTE FOR URBAN PEACE is the largest funder on record, with $1,715,602 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHAPTER TWO find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 2021–2024), and the filings of 8 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