Illinois · Nonprofit
RETHINK CITIZENS
RETHINK CITIZENS (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $225,000 to it, the largest being Hopelab Foundation Inc ($125,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $10k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $225k
- Net assets
- $84k
What Rethink Citizens does
Mission
Promote Internet safety & Cyberbullying prevention - ReThink Citizens is a youth-led nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting internet safety, cyberbullying prevention, and digital well-being through education, community engagement, and youth empowerment initiatives. The organization's primary exempt purpose is to educate and empower young people to create safer and healthier digital communities by providing educational programs, resources, and leadership opportunities focused on online safety, digital citizenship, and healthy technology use. ReThink Citizens also supports young innovators developing solutions to improve the digital environment and facilitates conversations among youth, parents, educators, technology leaders and community stakeholders to increase awareness and prevention of harmful online behavior, including cyberbullying and digital harassment.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
ReThink Citizens Youth Squad program operated a nationwide youth-led digital safety and digital wellness education initiative designed to train and empower young leaders ages 1525 to deliver Internet safety and ReThinking Digital Parenting educational workshops for students, parents, caregivers, and communities. In 2025, the program was led by 9 trained Youth Squad members and reached thousands of students, parents, caregivers, and community participants across the United States through educational programming, workshops, and outreach initiatives. The Youth Squad was created to address growing demand from families and communities for youth-informed perspectives on the opportunities and risks associated with social media and digital technology. Through specialized training and ongoing educational programming, Youth Squad members were equipped with the knowledge, communication skills, and evidence-based resources needed to educate parents and caregivers about online safety, digital wellness, and healthy technology use. The programs primary initiative, the ReThinking Digital Parenting (RDP) workshop, consisted of interactive 6090 minute educational sessions delivered virtually and in…
$19,600 spent19% of program spendingThe ReThink Citizens Youth Coalition (RCYC) Program operated a first-of-its-kind community initiative designed to guide, incubate, and empower young innovators through mentorship, leadership development, hands-on training, and material support focused on improving online safety and digital well-being. Through the inaugural iRCYC Innovator Academy, the program supported 9 student innovators, ages 1322, selected from applicants representing 14 cities across the country. These young digital changemakers developed and scaled initiatives addressing some of todays most urgent online challenges, including youth mental health, artificial intelligence, digital agency, online security, and responsible technology use. Over the course of the Academy, participants engaged directly with 20 nationally recognized leaders, advocates, technologists, and youth voices working to build healthier digital spaces. Featured leaders and mentors included responsible technology advocates Frances Haugen, and Arturo Béjar, alongside leaders such as Larz May and David Ryan Polgar. Students also learned from youth advocates including Arielle Geismar, Sam Hiner, and Kate Barranco. The Academy combined mentorship,…
$48,294 spent46% of program spendingReThink Citizens operated a Digital Wellness Curriculum and Advocacy Media Program focused on anti-hate awareness, cyberbullying prevention, Internet safety, digital literacy, and responsible digital citizenship education for K12 students. In 2025, the program delivered digital wellness education to thousands of students in schools and communities across the United States through age-appropriate curriculum programming, educational resources, and advocacy initiatives. The program was developed in response to growing concerns surrounding youth technology use and online harm. Research cited by the organization highlighted that 40% of children have their own tablet by age two and approximately 50% of American teenagers report four or more hours of daily screen time. While many youth are highly engaged online, the program addressed the gap between digital engagement and digital literacy by equipping students with the knowledge, vocabulary, and practical skills needed to safely navigate digital spaces. The comprehensive ReThink Digital Wellness Curriculum provided students with preventative education focused on identifying and responding to cyberbullying, understanding online hate and…
$37,245 spent35% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $105,139.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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 $187k to $88k (−53%).
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.
100% of RETHINK CITIZENS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 44% 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 RETHINK CITIZENS’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
RETHINK CITIZENS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
44% 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 RETHINK CITIZENS.
“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
RETHINK CITIZENS draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $100k 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.
Against its field
RETHINK CITIZENS's revenue fell 94% between 2024 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,277 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
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In Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
45%
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 RETHINK CITIZENS: 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 RETHINK CITIZENS?
- RETHINK CITIZENS (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $225,000 to it, the largest being Hopelab Foundation Inc ($125,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does RETHINK CITIZENS have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $225,000 in grants to RETHINK CITIZENS, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RETHINK CITIZENS?
- Hopelab Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $125,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RETHINK CITIZENS 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 2024–2025), and the filings of 2 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