Illinois · Nonprofit
Root2Fruit Youth Foundation
Root2Fruit Youth Foundation (Illinois) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $363,000 to it, the largest being CHICAGOBEYOND INC ($176,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Root2Fruit Youth Foundation's funding base is broadening — from 3 funders to 4 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,813 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Woods Fund of Chicagoshared funders
- The Sean Combs Foundationportfolio match
- JD Finish Line Foundation Incportfolio match
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $44k → $238k.
3 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 33% 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 Root2Fruit Youth Foundation’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
Root2Fruit Youth Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
41% 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 Root2Fruit Youth Foundation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 57% · 2023 74% — 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
98% of Root2Fruit Youth Foundation's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $119k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 9 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Woods Fund of Chicagoshared fundersIL · backs 69 organizations that share your funders
- The Sean Combs Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- JD Finish Line Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Basketball Players Association Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Basketball Association Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fanatics Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Full of Grace Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Turn 2 Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Olive Tree Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Social Giving Networkportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Charleys Kids Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Unilever United States Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like Root2Fruit Youth Foundation
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Root2Fruit Youth Foundation: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds Root2Fruit Youth Foundation?
- Root2Fruit Youth Foundation (Illinois) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $363,000 to it, the largest being CHICAGOBEYOND INC ($176,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Root2Fruit Youth Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $363,000 in grants to Root2Fruit Youth Foundation, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Root2Fruit Youth Foundation?
- CHICAGOBEYOND INC is the largest funder on record, with $176,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Root2Fruit Youth Foundation 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 2024–2024), and the filings of 9funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing