Illinois · Nonprofit
HIGH JUMP
HIGH JUMP (Illinois) receives grants from 107 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,604,495 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,271,150). 71 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.2M
- Funders on record
- 107
- Grants received
- $9.6M
- Net assets
- $2.3M
What High Jump does
Mission
High Jump is a tuition free, two-year enrichment program for talented and motivated middle school students with limited family income. The students attend classes for a five week session during the summers before 7th and 8th grade; as well as attend classes two saturdays a month during the school years. The program goals are to improve the students' academic capabilities, grow their social-emotional competencies and increase their access to high-quality high school options. High Jump also offers programming for alumni (high school students). This programming is focused on helping students navigate high school, develop leadership skills, gain acceptance and enroll in a four-year college program.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Having served 35 cohorts of students since our founding in 1989, High Jump has enrolled over 3,500 middle school students into the middle school program. Currently, our cohorts are composed of 224 rising 7th graders. Within each cohort, 95% of our students are from chicago public schools, nearly 65% will be the first in their family to attend any post-secondary schooling, 44% identify as hispanic and 40% identify as african-american. The average student comes from a family of four with a household income of $40,000 annually.the program requires students to spend approximately 300 hours per year with our teachers engaged in academic and social-emotional coursework, as well as counseling for high school access and readiness. Over the initial two-year program, we retain approximately 88% of our students.when examining their standardized test scores, students who attend High Jump make two years of math and reading growth for every one year they attend the program. Our students maintain high gpas and attendance rates. 85% of our students go on to attend rigorous college prep high schools in chicago and throughout the country. 50% of our students attend selective enrollment high schools…
$1,812,344 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,812,344.
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 $1.4M to $2.5M (+72%).
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 8% · 2023 4% · 2024 5% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
102% of HIGH JUMP’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Nathan J Pietrini
Executive director
Board chair
Lena Jessen
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 27 funders to 47 funders, grant income rose $358k → $1.7M.
17 of 107 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 43% 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 HIGH JUMP’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 107 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
HIGH JUMP has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 13% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
46% 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 HIGH JUMP.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 21% · 2018 19% · 2019 28% · 2020 21% · 2021 24% · 2022 13% · 2023 12% — 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
51% of HIGH JUMP's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 66% 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 HIGH JUMP's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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
HIGH JUMP has grown faster than half of the 9,615 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,615 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like HIGH JUMP
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
57% 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 HIGH JUMP: 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 HIGH JUMP?
- HIGH JUMP (Illinois) receives grants from 107 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,604,495 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,271,150). 71 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HIGH JUMP have?
- IRS filings report 107 organizations giving $9,604,495 in grants to HIGH JUMP, 71 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HIGH JUMP?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,271,150 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HIGH JUMP 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 107 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