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METROSQUASH NFP

METROSQUASH NFP (Illinois) receives grants from 100 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,698,098 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($1,069,000). 60 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$3.5M
Funders on record
100
Grants received
$8.7M
Net assets
$12M
60/100 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 50%
01What it does

What Metrosquash Nfp does

Mission

Metrosquash is an out-of-school time and college success program that utilizes a long-term and holistic model to serve chicagoland public school students with demonstrated need. Students enter the program as early as 5th grade and receive support through post-secondary completion. Through its unique, pathway model, metrosquash works to empower students to become healthy adults with social and economic stability.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Academics and enrichment - provide students with out-of-school time tutoring and enrichment, academic goal-setting and monitoring, sat/ssat/isee test preparation, saturday tutoring and enrichment, and high school placement services.

    $973,431 spent
    41% of program spending
  2. Squash and wellness - provide students with individualized coaching, travel opportunities, fitness activities, nutrition awareness, and competitive tournaments.

    $832,979 spent
    35% of program spending
  3. College and careers - provide students with college tours, college access and success programming, career advising and internship placement, on-campus advising and support, alumni engagement.

    $371,986 spentof which $39,734 as grants
    16% of program spending
  4. Mentoring and social work - provide students with individual and family counseling, community service, one on one mentoring, socio-emotional learning, and youth program quality improvement (ypqi) assessment tools.

    $141,465 spent$45,657 earned by the program
    6% of program spending
  5. Outreach and other

    $54,906 spent$67,614 earned by the program
    2% of program spending

The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,374,767.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($5.0M) Expenses 100 ($2.1M) Net assets 100 ($9.3M)2019 Revenue 53 ($2.6M) Expenses 122 ($2.5M) Net assets 101 ($9.4M)2020 Revenue 45 ($2.2M) Expenses 111 ($2.3M) Net assets 107 ($10.0M)2021 Revenue 98 ($4.9M) Expenses 100 ($2.1M) Net assets 139 ($13M)2022 Revenue 58 ($2.9M) Expenses 139 ($2.9M) Net assets 133 ($12M)2023 Revenue 49 ($2.4M) Expenses 171 ($3.5M) Net assets 124 ($12M)2024 Revenue 76 ($3.8M) Expenses 164 ($3.4M) Net assets 129 ($12M)2025 Revenue 70 ($3.5M) Expenses 175 ($3.6M) Net assets 129 ($12M)
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Revenue (70)Expenses (175)Net assets (129)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 2020 to 2021, from $10M to $13M (+29%).

$9.7M
$9.8M
$10M
$13M
$13M
$12M
$12M
$12M
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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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 8% · 2022 1% · 2023 4% · 2024 3% · 2025 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

89% of METROSQUASH NFP’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (13% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,898 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$2.9M
’18
$86k
’19
−$62k
’20
$2.8M
’21
−$647
’22
−$1.1M
’23
$356k
’24
−$128k
’25
4.6
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

Janae Meyer

CEO

Board chair

Willard Hunter

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.

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Listed3940423543414040
Joined·+1+11+5+13+12+4+3
No longer listed·091251453
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 28 funders to 42 funders, grant income rose $558k → $1.2M.

15 of 100 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% 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 METROSQUASH NFP’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 100 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

METROSQUASH NFP has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 12% of grant income, and it takes 8 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 8 funders to its left

42% 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 METROSQUASH NFP.

12%
largest funder
28%
top three
~20
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 14% · 2018 35% · 2019 22% · 2020 16% · 2021 28% · 2022 10% · 2023 16% — broadly stable.

“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

42% of METROSQUASH NFP's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

65% of METROSQUASH NFP's grant income comes from Illinois funders.

MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
WY
OH
PA
CT
CA
NE
MO
MD
DE
NC
FL

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

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Illinois out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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

METROSQUASH NFP is better cushioned than half of the 1,767 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−4% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve4.6mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−5% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,767 recreation & sports nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like METROSQUASH NFP

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

65% of spending goes to programs.

Program 65%Management 21%Fundraising 14%

Governance

37
board members
97%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

81%

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 METROSQUASH NFP?
METROSQUASH NFP (Illinois) receives grants from 100 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,698,098 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($1,069,000). 60 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does METROSQUASH NFP have?
IRS filings report 100 organizations giving $8,698,098 in grants to METROSQUASH NFP, 60 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of METROSQUASH NFP?
NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $1,069,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like METROSQUASH NFP 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 100 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