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Filing year 2023

THE ROOTS INITIATIVE

Chicago, Illinois·EIN 32-0659999·NTEE O50 · Youth Development·3
Total revenue
$2k
Total assets
$248k
Total expenses
$17k
Reported officers
5
Mission

TO NBSP;ACTIVATE NBSP;BLACK NBSP;YOUTH NBSP;AS NBSP;THE NBSP;ARCHITECTS NBSP;AND NBSP;LEADERS NBSP;OF NBSP;TRANSFORMATIVE NBSP;CIVIC NBSP;AND NBSP;SOCIAL NBSP;CHANGE NBSP;IN NBSP;THEIR NBSP;COMMUNITIES NBSP;AND NBSP;BEYOND NBSP;WE NBSP;BELIEVE NBSP;THAT NBSP;WHEN NBSP;YOUTH NBSP;ARE NBSP;PROVIDED NBSP;WITH NBSP;THE NBSP;SOCIAL-EMOTIONAL NBSP;SUPPORTS NBSP;EDUCATION NBSP;AND NBSP;RESOURCES NBSP;TO NBSP;UNDERSTAND NBSP;THEIR NBSP;POWER NBSP;IDENTITY NBSP;CULTURE NBSP;AND NBSP;INHERENT NBSP;GENIUS NBSP;THEN NBSP;THEY NBSP;WILL NBSP;HAVE NBSP;A NBSP;GREATER NBSP;SENSE NBSP;OF NBSP;POSSIBILITY NBSP;AS NBSP;WELL NBSP;AS NBSP;THE NBSP;CONFIDENCE NBSP;AND NBSP;KNOWLEDGE NBSP;TO NBSP;ENGAGE NBSP;CIVICALLY NBSP;RESULTING NBSP;IN NBSP;POSITIVE NBSP;ECONOMIC NBSP;CIVIC NBSP;AND NBSP;SOCIAL NBSP;CHANGE NBSP;IN NBSP;THEIR NBSP;COMMUNITIES NBSP;AND NBSP;CITY

Executive compensation

Form 990 · Schedule J · 1 reported individual · Filing year 2023

CEO and President
$11k
$12k

Teal figures restate each filed amount in 2026 dollars.

Estimated with Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI metro-area CPI-U, restating filed pay into May 2026 dollars. A restatement of past pay, not current or projected pay.

Plus 4 unpaid individuals.

Browse compensation in Youth Development

Down 27%
from 2022

From $15k in 2022 to $11k in 2023.

$15k
2022
$11k
2023
In today's dollarsEst.
Down 29% in real terms$17k to $12k

Estimated with Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI metro-area CPI-U, restating filed pay into May 2026 dollars. A restatement of past pay, not current or projected pay.

Highest reported compensation in each year. Volunteer board members and partial-year payouts are filtered out.
Financial trend

Revenue and expenses over time

THE ROOTS INITIATIVE reported revenue and expenses across 2 filing years.

RevenueExpenses
$290k
$29k
2022
$2k
$17k
2023
Total revenue and total expenses from IRS Form 990 filings.
Sector benchmark

What Youth Development executives earn

Comparable youth development organizations nationwide pay their highest-earning executive a median of $65,236.

25th percentile
$27k
Median
$65,236
75th percentile
$118k
90th percentile
$187k

These are youth development sector-wide figures, not this organization's reported pay. Based on 1,380 organizations across 1,380 filings (2021 – 2023).

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