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JESSE WHITE FOUNDATION LTD

JESSE WHITE FOUNDATION LTD (Illinois) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,213,321 to it, the largest being JB Inauguration Committee 2023 ($850,941). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$353k
Funders on record
31
Grants received
$1.2M
Net assets
$3.0M
14/31 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 84%
01What it does

What Jesse White Foundation Ltd does

Mission

The jesse white foundation strongly believes in the longevity of community growth and sustainability through our youth by specifically investing in a well-rounded education and cultural experience. Through focused energy in educational tutoring, athletics, and scholarship resources, we provide young people with a place to become physically fit and mentally sound.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Provide educational and/or athletic scholarships to educate youths of all race, color, creed, religion, and national origin in athletic, ethical, civic, and scholastic curricula to allow them to be good citizens of our nation.

    $485,160 spentof which $293,224 as grants
    88% of program spending
  2. The foundation distributes hams and turkeys to thousands of senior citizens and families in need in chicago including near north, near west, and near south sides. An estimated 12,000 families were served meals free of charge during the holidays.

    $67,323 spentof which $67,323 as grants
    12% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $552,483.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($215k) Expenses 100 ($645k) Net assets 100 ($2.9M)2018 Revenue 136 ($293k) Expenses 84 ($540k) Net assets 92 ($2.7M)2019 Revenue 373 ($802k) Expenses 108 ($694k) Net assets 95 ($2.8M)2020 Revenue 72 ($154k) Expenses 56 ($364k) Net assets 88 ($2.6M)2021 Revenue 138 ($297k) Expenses 50 ($321k) Net assets 88 ($2.6M)2022 Revenue 388 ($835k) Expenses 52 ($336k) Net assets 106 ($3.1M)2023 Revenue 507 ($1.1M) Expenses 129 ($834k) Net assets 114 ($3.3M)2024 Revenue 164 ($353k) Expenses 114 ($735k) Net assets 101 ($3.0M)
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Revenue (164)Expenses (114)Net assets (101)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $2.6M to $3.1M (+21%).

$3.1M
$2.7M
$2.8M
$2.6M
$2.6M
$3.1M
$3.4M
$3.0M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

79% of JESSE WHITE FOUNDATION LTD’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 24,946 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$430k
’17
−$247k
’18
$107k
’19
−$210k
’20
−$25k
’21
$499k
’22
$257k
’23
−$382k
’24
2.7
months of
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

Honorable Jesse White

Chairman/founder/CEO

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed1110101010101015
Joined·+0+0+0+0+0+0+5
No longer listed·1000000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $2k → $920k.

2 of 31 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 JESSE WHITE FOUNDATION LTD’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 31 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

JESSE WHITE FOUNDATION LTD leans on a few funders — its largest provides 70% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

86% 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 JESSE WHITE FOUNDATION LTD.

70%
largest funder
78%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 40% · 2019 44% · 2020 35% · 2021 43% · 2022 38% · 2023 92% — 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.

How long its funders stay

44% of JESSE WHITE FOUNDATION LTD's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 45% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

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

JESSE WHITE FOUNDATION LTD draws 71% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 3 states in all.

IL
DC
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Illinois out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $15k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

JESSE WHITE FOUNDATION LTD has grown faster than half of the 22,812 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−108% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve2.7mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)7% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,812 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like JESSE WHITE FOUNDATION LTD

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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

75% of spending goes to programs.

Program 75%Management 19%Fundraising 6%

Governance

15
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

61%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

IL

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Questions and answers

Who funds JESSE WHITE FOUNDATION LTD?
JESSE WHITE FOUNDATION LTD (Illinois) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,213,321 to it, the largest being JB Inauguration Committee 2023 ($850,941). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does JESSE WHITE FOUNDATION LTD have?
IRS filings report 31 organizations giving $1,213,321 in grants to JESSE WHITE FOUNDATION LTD, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of JESSE WHITE FOUNDATION LTD?
JB Inauguration Committee 2023 is the largest funder on record, with $850,941 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like JESSE WHITE FOUNDATION LTD 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.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 31 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