Illinois · Nonprofit
Invisible Book Bag Inc
Invisible Book Bag Inc (Illinois) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $68,121 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($24,100). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $58k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $68k
- Net assets
- $41k
What Invisible Book Bag Inc does
Mission
The mission of Invisible Book Bag Inc. IBB is to offer services to under-served communities enhancing the lives of socially and economically deprived youth through education athletics mentoring and social engagement in a safe and positive environment.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
In partnership with Alfonzo McKinnie we engaged Tunnel Vision LLC to renovate and design two colorful murals on the basketball courts at Roswell B. Mason Elementary School. The aim was to foster community unity and provide a secure recreational area for young people. Students faculty and local residents collaborated on the murals installation promoting social harmony and offering an educational opportunity for the youth.
$66,305 spentof which $20,000 as grants90% of program spendingWe partnered with Rush Hospital and Chase Bank to provide gifts to less fortunate families through our Adopt A Family program. We hosted the event at the Discover Center. The adopted families came and received their gifts. Volunteers and donors were also present.
$3,867 spentof which $2,000 as grants5% of program spendingWe hosted our annual Book Bag Boost and gave away back packs filled with the items from the recommended list for each grade K-12th. This event was open to the public.
$3,728 spentof which $3,000 as grants5% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $73,900.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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 2024 to 2025, from $23k to $41k (+77%).
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.
100% of Invisible Book Bag Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (99% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Albert Sharp
CEO
As listed on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $9k → $25k.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% 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 Invisible Book Bag Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 6 of 7 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
Invisible Book Bag Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
87% 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 Invisible Book Bag Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 60% — 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.
Where its funders are
57% of Invisible Book Bag Inc's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $24k 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
Invisible Book Bag Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,200 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,200 youth development nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like Invisible Book Bag 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.
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 Invisible Book Bag 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 Invisible Book Bag Inc?
- Invisible Book Bag Inc (Illinois) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $68,121 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($24,100). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Invisible Book Bag Inc have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $68,121 in grants to Invisible Book Bag Inc, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Invisible Book Bag Inc?
- The Chicago Community Trust is the largest funder on record, with $24,100 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Invisible Book Bag 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.
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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 2024–2025), and the filings of 7 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