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NEWROOT LEARNING INSTITUTE F/K/A UMOJA STUDENT DEVELOPMENT CORP
NEWROOT LEARNING INSTITUTE F/K/A UMOJA STUDENT DEVELOPMENT CORP (Illinois) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,140,640 to it, the largest being FIFTH THIRD CHICAGOLAND FOUNDATION ($790,500). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.3M
- Funders on record
- 42
- Grants received
- $5.1M
- Net assets
- $1.7M
What Newroot Learning Institute F/K/A Umoja Student Development Corp does
Mission
Newroot improves the experiences of young people by increasing the capacity of adults to grow restorative and social-emotional practices in learning environments.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Newroot's social emotional learning programming provides curricula, interventions, and training that enable schools to create and sustain nurturing environments that lead to improved social well-being outcomes, academic outcomes, and reduced suspensions and disciplinary infractions. Newroot engages sel partners in strategic planning and system-building with the school community; facilitates professional development for teachers, counselors, staff, and administrators; and provides customized coaching and modeling in the implementation of newroot's 500+ research-based lessons that are aligned with the illinois social and emotional learning standards, national asca standards, and the common core. By developing self and social-awareness skills, self-management, and interpersonal skills, both adults and students are able to establish and maintain relationships and healthier behaviors that support self-sustaining positive school cultures.
$133,702 spent$80,080 earned by the program7% of program spendingNewroot provides professional development training sessions for participants throughout chicagoland and beyond. As a premier social emotional learning and restorative justice provider in chicago and one of the only organizations with a significant breadth and depth of knowledge and experience in these areas, from student programming to adult training to data analysis to system design, the demand for newroot's curricula and training is growing. Our highly skilled staff provide customized training, curricula, and coaching for educators, schools, and districts to effectively implement newroot's social emotional learning and restorative justice programming within their schools.
$1,483,915 spent$888,780 earned by the program77% of program spendingNewroot's restorative justice model creates the conditions for both students and adults to successfully reach their academic goals by reducing violence, restoring conflicts and reducing suspensions and disciplinary infractions. Through rj programming, students learn critical social, emotional, and behavioral skills and teachers are better positioned to deliver high quality instruction. Newroot utilizes a whole school restorative justice model which includes: 1) a peace room which serves as a hub for restorative practices and interventions including: peace circles, mediations, restorative chats and re-entry circles; 2) discipline and behavior systems and data support; 3) professional development for teachers and staff; and 4) a disciplinary intervention and support curriculum which teaches critical social-emotional and leadership.
$319,435 spent$191,324 earned by the program16% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,937,052.
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. 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 2024 to 2025, from $2.6M to $2.1M (−19%).
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: 2019 6% · 2020 2% · 2022 22% · 2023 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
50% of NEWROOT LEARNING INSTITUTE F/K/A UMOJA STUDENT DEVELOPMENT CORP’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Chief executive
Angela Cobb Started 102024
Chief executive officer
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $613k → $734k.
10 of 42 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% 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 NEWROOT LEARNING INSTITUTE F/K/A UMOJA STUDENT DEVELOPMENT CORP’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 42 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
NEWROOT LEARNING INSTITUTE F/K/A UMOJA STUDENT DEVELOPMENT CORP has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 41% · 2018 64% · 2019 18% · 2020 35% · 2021 22% · 2022 19% · 2023 15% — 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
41% of NEWROOT LEARNING INSTITUTE F/K/A UMOJA STUDENT DEVELOPMENT CORP's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
91% of NEWROOT LEARNING INSTITUTE F/K/A UMOJA STUDENT DEVELOPMENT CORP's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $902k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
NEWROOT LEARNING INSTITUTE F/K/A UMOJA STUDENT DEVELOPMENT CORP is better cushioned than half of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like NEWROOT LEARNING INSTITUTE F/K/A UMOJA STUDENT DEVELOPMENT CORP
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
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NEWROOT LEARNING INSTITUTE F/K/A UMOJA STUDENT DEVELOPMENT CORP?
- NEWROOT LEARNING INSTITUTE F/K/A UMOJA STUDENT DEVELOPMENT CORP (Illinois) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,140,640 to it, the largest being FIFTH THIRD CHICAGOLAND FOUNDATION ($790,500). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NEWROOT LEARNING INSTITUTE F/K/A UMOJA STUDENT DEVELOPMENT CORP have?
- IRS filings report 42 organizations giving $5,140,640 in grants to NEWROOT LEARNING INSTITUTE F/K/A UMOJA STUDENT DEVELOPMENT CORP, 28 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NEWROOT LEARNING INSTITUTE F/K/A UMOJA STUDENT DEVELOPMENT CORP?
- FIFTH THIRD CHICAGOLAND FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $790,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NEWROOT LEARNING INSTITUTE F/K/A UMOJA STUDENT DEVELOPMENT CORP 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 42 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