Illinois · Nonprofit
JACKIE ROBINSON WEST LITTLE LEAGUE
JACKIE ROBINSON WEST LITTLE LEAGUE (Illinois) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,129 to it, the largest being PHILANTHROPY MASSACHUSETTS INC ($15,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $30k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $21k
- Net assets
- $6k
What Jackie Robinson West Little League does
Mission
Youth social program: to bring children into a stuctured program environment, intensley supported by adult volunteers where the values of leadership, and
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The purpose is baseball training and league game participation for youth between the ages of 6 and 19. The culminating activity of the program is an awards banquet honoring program participants.
$27,869 spent$30,312 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $27,869.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $10k to $29k (+183%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $0 → $3k.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 JACKIE ROBINSON WEST LITTLE LEAGUE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 4 of 5 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
JACKIE ROBINSON WEST LITTLE LEAGUE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
72% 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 JACKIE ROBINSON WEST LITTLE LEAGUE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 94% · 2021 89% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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
JACKIE ROBINSON WEST LITTLE LEAGUE draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $129 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.
Organizations like JACKIE ROBINSON WEST LITTLE LEAGUE
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
99% 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 JACKIE ROBINSON WEST LITTLE LEAGUE: 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 JACKIE ROBINSON WEST LITTLE LEAGUE?
- JACKIE ROBINSON WEST LITTLE LEAGUE (Illinois) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,129 to it, the largest being PHILANTHROPY MASSACHUSETTS INC ($15,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does JACKIE ROBINSON WEST LITTLE LEAGUE have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $21,129 in grants to JACKIE ROBINSON WEST LITTLE LEAGUE, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of JACKIE ROBINSON WEST LITTLE LEAGUE?
- PHILANTHROPY MASSACHUSETTS INC is the largest funder on record, with $15,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like JACKIE ROBINSON WEST LITTLE LEAGUE 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 FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 5 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