Illinois · Nonprofit
Role Model Movement Inc (NFP)
Role Model Movement Inc (NFP) (Illinois) receives grants from 216 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,063,207 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($1,037,735). 75 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.6M
- Funders on record
- 216
- Grants received
- $7.1M
- Net assets
- $7.3M
What Role Model Movement Inc (NFP) does
Mission
To inspire youth, empower communities and build a better world one block at a time.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Community Development - promotes community service and advocacy within the 77 neighborhoods in Chicago with a grassroots approach. Some of the initiatives include: training and sponsoring 25 block clubs including new signage; Senior snow shoveling with volunteers; Be a Part of the Light - providing holiday decorations.
$1,087,667 spentof which $161,730 as grants53% of program spendingYouth Development Explorers Program takes teenagers from schools in low social economic status neighborhoods on educational explorations. They receive a firsthand glimpse into different cultures and careers, people and businesses. Scholarships for youth attending secondary education, youth led walks where youth led community walks within their community.
$956,211 spentof which $48,000 as grants47% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,043,878.
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 2019 to 2020, from $377k to $8.5M (+2158%).
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: 2017 1% · 2020 83%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of Role Model Movement Inc (NFP)’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (82% 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
Jahmal Cole
Chief Executive Officer
Board chair
Will Hobert
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 46 funders, grant income rose $20k → $740k.
25 of 216 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 48% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $6k from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest Role Model Movement Inc (NFP)). These are real filings, and they are not money Role Model Movement Inc (NFP) raised.
From the IRS filings of Role Model Movement Inc (NFP)’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 216 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
Role Model Movement Inc (NFP) 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
55% 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 Role Model Movement Inc (NFP).
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 52% · 2018 44% · 2019 29% · 2020 14% · 2021 29% · 2022 18% · 2023 27% — 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
15% of Role Model Movement Inc (NFP)'s funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 35% 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
61% of Role Model Movement Inc (NFP)'s grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 16 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
Role Model Movement Inc (NFP) holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,928 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,928 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like Role Model Movement Inc (NFP)
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
59% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Role Model Movement Inc (NFP): 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 Role Model Movement Inc (NFP)?
- Role Model Movement Inc (NFP) (Illinois) receives grants from 216 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,063,207 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($1,037,735). 75 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Role Model Movement Inc (NFP) have?
- IRS filings report 216 organizations giving $7,063,207 in grants to Role Model Movement Inc (NFP), 75 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Role Model Movement Inc (NFP)?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,037,735 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Role Model Movement Inc (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.
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 216 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