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Top 25 Youth development programs based in Chicago, United States
RevenueBase identified 91 youth development programs headquartered in Chicago, United States as of September 2026 and tracks 3,020 professional contacts across them, including 942 with verified work emails. New York is the largest hub.
This list covers youth development programs headquartered in Chicago, United States, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 16, 2026.
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The 25 largest youth development programs based in Chicago, United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 810 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Each year, After School Matters provides life-changing after-school and summer program opportunities to nearly Chicago high school teens.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 500 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Youth Guidance creates and implements school-based programs that enable children to overcome obstacles, focus on their education and, ultimately, to succeed in school and in life.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 226 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Our mission is to prevent the following societal problems: suicide, precarity and poverty, school truancy, and bullying, in addition to lack literacy and numeracy, college…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 127 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Since 1969, BUILD, Inc.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 120 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Mikva Challenge develops youth to be informed, empowered, and active citizens and community leaders.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 108 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Project: VISION’s mission is to help youth of Chicago’s Chinatown, Bridgeport, McKinley Park, and surrounding communities achieve their full potentials by providing them with…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 100 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Urban Initiatives is a nonprofit organization that empowers Chicago’s youth to become agents of community change through academic success, healthy living, and leadership…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 98 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Our Mission: To enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 83 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Since 1919, Union League Boys & Girls Clubs have opened doors of opportunity and prepared young people for a great future.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 82 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “New Life Centers of Chicagoland is a company based out of 2657 S Lawndale, Chicago, Illinois, United States.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 73 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Midtown-Metro Achievement Centers (Midtown-Metro) help young men and women to become better students and better people through its Metro Achievement Center for girls and Midtown…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 55 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Hot Shots Sports is a private organization that develops and organizes youth athletic programming in the Chicago area.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 38 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The Neighborhood Boys & Girls Club is a non-profit independent organization founded in 1931 dedicated to youth development.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 32 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Mission Statement: For Chicagoland youth who desire and deserve more, MetroSquash combines academic support, competitive squash, and enrichment to empower students to realize…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 30 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Chicago Lights builds brighter futures for Chicago’s youth and adults through supportive relationships and life-changing programs.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 21 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “At GRIP Outreach For Youth, our mission is to invest in the lives of Chicago's youth through Christ-centered, Life-on-Life relationships.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 18 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Chicago Youth Programs (CYP) is an award-winning, innovative program created by Northwestern University medical students in 1984.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 18 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The Wiz Kids Foundation, a 501(c)(3) organization, is dedicated to supporting academic achievement and youth development through enrichment programs, personal skill development…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 17 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “St.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 17 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in 2007, the mission of the Chicago Freedom School (CFS) is to create new generations of critical and independent thinking young people who use their unique experiences…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 15 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Some of Chicago's most promising youth are falling into hopelessness.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “C.H.A.M.P.S.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “From education to employment, The ARK offers a vast array of opportunities and programs for youth and young adults ages 6-24.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 12 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Foster Progress empowers Illinois youth currently or formerly in foster care to attain a college degree and transition into adulthood successfully by providing mentorship…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 12 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The mission of The Support Group is to create an overall balance that will afford the unlimited opportunities for young men and women to excel and succeed.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: youth development programs. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names youth development programs.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of youth development programs, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name youth development programs. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Youth development programs based in Chicago, United States at a glance
As of Sep 16, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured across the whole United States list rather than for Chicago, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Chicago, over 91 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among youth development programs, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in Chicago, United States whose own description of what they do matches “youth development programs”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names youth development programs), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among youth development programs, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Chicago are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 942 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 16, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Youth development programs by metro in the United States
- Youth development programs in New York133
- Youth development programs in Chicago91
- Youth development programs in Los Angeles89
- Youth development programs in Atlanta79
- Youth development programs in Washington66
- Youth development programs in Houston50
- Youth development programs in Miami41
- Youth development programs in Dallas38
- Youth development programs in Baltimore37
- Youth development programs in Detroit33
- Youth development programs in Charlotte32
- Youth development programs in Seattle32
- Youth development programs in Oakland30
- Youth development programs in Philadelphia30
- Youth development programs in Denver29
- Youth development programs in San Francisco29
- Youth development programs in Columbus28
- Youth development programs in Boston27
- Youth development programs in Indianapolis26
- Youth development programs in Orlando26
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names youth development programs, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many youth development programs are there based in Chicago, United States?
RevenueBase identified 91 youth development programs headquartered in Chicago, United States as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
After School Matters, headquartered in Chicago, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most youth development programs?
New York leads with 133 headquartered companies, followed by Chicago (91) and Los Angeles (89).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 942 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 91 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 16, 2026.
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