Beautiful Beginnings to Lasting Legacies

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
853428686
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2024–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
Location
Chicago, IL, USA
Phone
7735522393
Rating
88
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Girls Clubs

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$84,697
Expenses
$89,382
Assets
$40,875

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Paulette Jones (Executive Director)
  • April Williams (President)

People named in this filing

  • Paulette Jones (Executive Director)
  • Loleather Scott (Managing Director)
  • April Williams (President)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Jumping Juniors is a nonprofit organization dedicted to mentoring and empowering youth through the sport of double dutch while integrating financial literacy, conflict resolution, and leadership development. The organization provides structured programs that promote physical fitness, teamwork, discipline, and personal growth, particularly for underserved youth in the Woodlawn community and surrounding areas.

What it reported doing in 2025

Violence Prevention, Conflict Resolution & Wellness ProgrammingBeautiful Beginnings to Lasting Legacies provided violence prevention, conflict resolution, and social-emotional wellness workshops for youth in underserved communities. Programs addressed peer pressure, emotional regulation, communication skills, gun violence awareness, leadership development, and healing-centered engagement.Through camps, workshops, and community events, the organization served more than 100 youth and community members while promoting positive alternatives to violence and strengthening community connection.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 91% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.

The verdict

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 89
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 26
  • Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 90.9%; rating input score 91
  • Program expense ratio: 86.1%; rating input score 86

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -5.5%; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.46; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 18.8%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 27.5% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -19.1% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -10.8% per year; rating input score 0; 17th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 90.9% of revenue deployed · 86.1% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $77K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
  • Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
  • People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 34/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 30/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 8/100.