Just Because Mentoring Service
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 364519364
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2017–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Dixmoor, IL, USA
- Phone
- 7082893896
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Youth Development Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $174,295
- Expenses
- $165,315
- Assets
- $2,386
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
1 person listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Ronnie Skinner (CEO)
People named in this filing
- Ronnie Skinner (CEO)
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
Just Because Mentoring Service nfp provides mentoring, educational support, life skills development , violence prevention programming supportive services to youth and families including at risk youth and youth involved in child welfare and juvenile justice systems The organization promotes positive youth development self esteem academic support leadership and community engagement through mentoring workshops and supportive programming .(Youth social services)
What it reported doing in 2025
During the 2025 fiscal year, Just Because Mentoring Services NFP provided supportive services to at risk youth and families within Cook and Will Counties in Illinois. Services included one-on-one and group mentoring, tutoring, life skills development, violence prevention programming, and structured out of school-time enrichment activities. Youth participants received individualized support focused on personal development, academic support, leadership, social emotional learning, and community engagement. Program expenses included mentoring support program materials and supplies, meals and snacks, transportation assistance, staff support wellness activities, and operational costs associated with delivering youth programming and supportive services. Services were delivered to 30 to 50 youth.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 92% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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. Some filed totals do not add up and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 93
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 34
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 90.7%; rating input score 91
- Program expense ratio: 95.7%; rating input score 96
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 5.2%; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.01; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 14.2%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 25.8% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 16.4% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 11% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 90.7% of revenue deployed · 95.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $158K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 1 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 8 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2017 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part I part ii net assets crosscheck did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 5/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 45/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 20/100.