Illinois · Nonprofit
OTIS WILSON CHARITABLE ASSOCIATION
OTIS WILSON CHARITABLE ASSOCIATION (Illinois) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $51,000 to it, the largest being THDF II Inc DBA The Home Depot Foundation & Homer Fund ($15,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $51k
- Net assets
- $120k
What Otis Wilson Charitable Association does
Mission
The Otis Wilson Charitable Association has developed an all-inclusive health and fitness program for at-risk youth with the goal of educating and empowering them to lead active and healthy lifestyles.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
The covid-19 pandemic limited all organization services for a majority of the pandemic. As the pandemic ended, the organization was not able to continue to provide the majority of these services.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
This organization provides a summer camp to youth in order to improve thier fitness as well as productive activites to do while school is out. The sports camp teaches fundamentals of a variety of sports and gives children a chance to put their skill to action. The dance camp teaches kids a fun an energetic routine, which they perform for friends and family at the end of the camp. The martial ats camp teaches stundes the fundamentals required to test and earn a white belt. All camps are six weeks long and an effort is made to employ youth workers from the area.
$0 spent0% of program spendingThe association has an after school program serving 150 children. Activities include: basketball, football, track, and personal training. These programs also involve workshops stressing nutrition, personal hygiene, conflict intervention, and community. By partnering with the illinois violence prevention agency, we have added an emphasis on violence prevention. Our instructors help youth develope effective negotiating, conflict resolution, and anger management skills. They stress empathy and respect for all people and their values. Fitness tests are administered three times throughout the year. By mid year about 25% of females and 30% of males improved thier test results. By the end of the year, around 32% of females and 40% of males completed their fitness tests quicker than their mid year results.
$0 spent0% of program spendingThe tackling literacy program was implemented to create an effective means for imporving the literacy skill of elementary school students who continued to struggle with developing the basic and advanced reading skills needed to excel in school and life. The program also provides a means to expose youth to safe and creative alternatives to spending their time in order to deter them from engaging in violent activities. The fundamental core components of litearcy skill building, which indclude: phonics, vocabulary, fluency, comprehension, and assesment/evaluation, are all addressed in this program. In order to properly monitor the growth of stundent participants, three separate assessments were given during the course of the program. For the mid-point assesment, there was an average growth of 60% among all participants with respect to being able to read vocabulary work lists from the first game. By the end, all students demonstrated a measure of growth in their overall reading ability.
$0 spent0% of program spendingContributions made to other organizations and funds to help people with tuition
$18,500 spentof which $18,500 as grants100% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $18,500.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $27k to $95k (+257%).
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.
0% of OTIS WILSON CHARITABLE ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (95% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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
Chlyla Wilson
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2020: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income rose $8k → $10k.
From the IRS filings of OTIS WILSON CHARITABLE ASSOCIATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
OTIS WILSON CHARITABLE ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 29% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
69% 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 OTIS WILSON CHARITABLE ASSOCIATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 63% · 2018 67% · 2019 83% · 2020 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
OTIS WILSON CHARITABLE ASSOCIATION draws 69% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
OTIS WILSON CHARITABLE ASSOCIATION is better cushioned than half of the 7,183 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,183 philanthropy nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like OTIS WILSON CHARITABLE ASSOCIATION
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In Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
52% 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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds OTIS WILSON CHARITABLE ASSOCIATION?
- OTIS WILSON CHARITABLE ASSOCIATION (Illinois) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $51,000 to it, the largest being THDF II Inc DBA The Home Depot Foundation & Homer Fund ($15,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does OTIS WILSON CHARITABLE ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $51,000 in grants to OTIS WILSON CHARITABLE ASSOCIATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OTIS WILSON CHARITABLE ASSOCIATION?
- THDF II Inc DBA The Home Depot Foundation & Homer Fund 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 OTIS WILSON CHARITABLE ASSOCIATION 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 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