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Advancing Youth Initiative

Advancing Youth Initiative (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $575,826 to it, the largest being HILLMAN FAMILY FOUNDATIONS ($290,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$369k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$576k
Net assets
$-338852
1/3 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Advancing Youth Initiative does

Mission

Support the health, welfare, and educational interests of PHCSE, Dominus, and other organizations that share our educational values.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Supporting the health, welfare and educational interest of PHCSE, Dominus and other organizations that share educational values.

    $713,762 spentof which $144,489 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $713,762.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 0 ($0) Net assets 0 ($0)2021 Revenue 100 ($44k) Expenses 100 ($326) Net assets 100 ($30k)2022 Revenue 80 ($35k) Expenses 10662 ($35k) Net assets 101 ($30k)2023 Revenue 15 ($6k) Expenses 6173 ($20k) Net assets 55 ($16k)2024 Revenue 446 ($195k) Expenses 75331 ($246k) Net assets -116 ($-34417)2025 Revenue 845 ($369k) Expenses 219656 ($716k) Net assets -1142 ($-338852)
202020212022202320242025
Revenue (845)Expenses (219656)Net assets (-1142)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $8k to $145k (+1653%).

$0
$30k
$30k
$16k
$8k
$145k
202020212022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of Advancing Youth Initiative’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 24,946 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$0
’20
$43k
’21
$259
’22
−$14k
’23
−$51k
’24
−$347k
’25
2.4
months of
reserve
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2022 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $31k → $290k.

From the IRS filings of Advancing Youth Initiative’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

Advancing Youth Initiative leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

50%
largest funder
100%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

Where its funders are

100% of Advancing Youth Initiative's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.

PA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’22
’23
Pennsylvania out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Advancing Youth Initiative has grown faster than three-quarters of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−94% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve2.4mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)70% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like Advancing Youth Initiative

Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Pennsylvania

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

5
board members
80%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

0%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 2 related entities

  • Penn Hills Charter School of Entrepreneurship · exempt
  • The Charter School for Entreprenurship · exempt

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Advancing Youth Initiative: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.

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Questions and answers

Who funds Advancing Youth Initiative?
Advancing Youth Initiative (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $575,826 to it, the largest being HILLMAN FAMILY FOUNDATIONS ($290,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Advancing Youth Initiative have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $575,826 in grants to Advancing Youth Initiative, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Advancing Youth Initiative?
HILLMAN FAMILY FOUNDATIONS is the largest funder on record, with $290,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Advancing Youth Initiative find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 3 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing