Illinois · Nonprofit
STILL I RISE
STILL I RISE (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,850 to it, the largest being FIRST FINANCIAL FOUNDATION ($5,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $30k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $9k
- Net assets
- $36k
What Still I Rise does
Mission
To provide services that educate and empower youth and young adults.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Food Nutrition and Disparity Program - Several times each month this program hosts community food distributions. During each distribution healthy and nutritious hot meals are given away to homeless and impoverished individuals.
$906 spent22% of program spendingYouth Empowerment Program - Annual Back to School Supply Giveaway - The event provides students with backpacks and the necessary school supplies they need to have a successful school year. Youth also leave equipped with the knowledge and inspiration needed to be excited about learning and having a productive school year via motivational speakers.
$2,271 spent54% of program spendingHealth and Wellness Program - The program provides health awareness and education to the community along with providing free health screenings. The events allow attendees to obtain positive and educational messages from significant individuals including physicians medical experts etc.
$1,026 spent24% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $4,203.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $12k to $25k (+111%).
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 STILL I RISE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (99% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Tocarra Eldridge
Executive Director and Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $125 → $250.
From the IRS filings of STILL I RISE’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
STILL I RISE 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
STILL I RISE draws 56% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 2 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
STILL I RISE runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,200 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,200 youth development nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like STILL I RISE
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.
Public support
85%
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 STILL I RISE: 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 STILL I RISE?
- STILL I RISE (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,850 to it, the largest being FIRST FINANCIAL FOUNDATION ($5,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does STILL I RISE have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $8,850 in grants to STILL I RISE, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of STILL I RISE?
- FIRST FINANCIAL FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like STILL I RISE 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 2020–2025), 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