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RUSSELL WESTBROOK WHY NOT FOUNDATION INC

EIN 46-1322847 CHICAGO, IL

Revenue 2024
$1,720,955
Expenses 2024
$1,721,691

Program services were 82.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
Z99
Classification
1000
Street
227 W MONROE ST STE 5000

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

SEE SCHEDULE 0THE MISSION OF THE FOUNDATION IS TO INSPIRE THE LIVES OF CHILDRESN, EMPOWER THEM TO ASK "WHY NOT AND TEACH THEM TO NEVER GIVE UP. THE FOUNDATION WORKS TO HELP CHILDREN THAT ARE FACING HARDSHIPS OF ANY KIND AND WHEN FACED WITH THAT ADVERSITY FIGHT TO SUCCEED AND TO NEVER GIVE UP. THE FOUNDATION IS DEDICATED TO SUPPORTING COMMUNITY-BASED EDUCATION AND FAMILY SERVICE PROGRAMS WHILE ENCOURAGING YOUTH TO BELIEVE IN THEMSELVES.

Activities or mission (Part I)

SEE SCHEDULE 0

  • GENERAL ASSISTANCE TO INSPIRE THE LIVES OF CHILDREN, EMPOWER THEM TO ASK "WHY NOT? AND TEACH THEM TO NEVER GIVE UP.

    Expenses $1,412,211 · Grants $1,291,000

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • RUSSELL WESTBROOK III

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • RUSSELL WESTBROOK JR

    SECRETARY/TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • SHANNON WESTBROOK

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • REGINALD MORRIS

    CEO

    Total calculated
    $115,385
    From this org
    $115,385
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $1,720,955
    Expenses
    $1,721,691
    Contributions
    $1,842,625
    Grants paid
    $1,291,000
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $905,051
    Expenses
    $1,031,185
    Contributions
    $864,885
    Grants paid
    $715,000
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,871,357
    Expenses
    $1,784,737
    Contributions
    $1,985,679
    Grants paid
    $1,460,000

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,080,074
    Expenses
    $1,321,706
    Assets (EOY)
    $199,849

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $489,010
    Expenses
    $799,094
    Assets (EOY)
    $441,481

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $403,074
    Expenses
    $638,886
    Assets (EOY)
    $756,545

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $753,233
    Expenses
    $1,076,010
    Assets (EOY)
    $987,364

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $707,922
    Expenses
    $325,457
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,310,141

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $622,712
    Expenses
    $265,125
    Assets (EOY)
    $927,651

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $521,930
    Expenses
    $223,133
    Assets (EOY)
    $570,064

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $500,862
    Expenses
    $239,317
    Assets (EOY)
    $271,313

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared as related by

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.