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AFRICAN AMERICAN YOUTH LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE

AFRICAN AMERICAN YOUTH LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE (Colorado) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $115,217 to it, the largest being COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION ($85,068). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$76k
Funders on record
9
Grants received
$115k
Net assets
$124k
5/9 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 51%
01What it does

What African American Youth Leadership Conference does

Mission

Annual youth conference on a variety of academic and life skills for junior and senior high school students. Provide scholarships to graduating students.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Annual youth conference on a variety of academic and life skills was conducted forthe benefit of approximately 217 students in grades six through twelve.scholarships were awarded to 8 prior conference participants, now attending college.

    $3,000 spentof which $3,000 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $3,000.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($42k) Expenses 100 ($36k) Net assets 100 ($44k)2018 Revenue 150 ($62k) Expenses 139 ($50k) Net assets 127 ($56k)2019 Revenue 147 ($61k) Expenses 117 ($42k) Net assets 170 ($75k)2020 Revenue 132 ($55k) Expenses 126 ($46k) Net assets 191 ($84k)2021 Revenue 112 ($47k) Expenses 32 ($12k) Net assets 270 ($119k)2022 Revenue 122 ($51k) Expenses 85 ($31k) Net assets 316 ($139k)2023 Revenue 224 ($93k) Expenses 282 ($102k) Net assets 295 ($130k)2024 Revenue 160 ($67k) Expenses 238 ($86k) Net assets 254 ($112k)2025 Revenue 181 ($76k) Expenses 175 ($64k) Net assets 282 ($124k)
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Revenue (181)Expenses (175)Net assets (282)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $84k to $119k (+41%).

$44k
$56k
$75k
$84k
$119k
$139k
$130k
$112k
$124k
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Total assets

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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of AFRICAN AMERICAN YOUTH LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (99% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 6,261 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$5k
’17
$12k
’18
$19k
’19
$9k
’20
$35k
’21
$20k
’22
−$9k
’23
−$20k
’24
$12k
’25

Leadership and staff

Chief executive

Debra Johnson

Executive director

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $7k → $16k.

3 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 74% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of AFRICAN AMERICAN YOUTH LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 8 of 9 funders by total. 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

AFRICAN AMERICAN YOUTH LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 74% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

74% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund AFRICAN AMERICAN YOUTH LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE.

74%
largest funder
91%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 78% · 2019 89% · 2020 73% · 2021 98% · 2022 71% · 2023 93% — growing more concentrated.

“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.

How long its funders stay

40% of AFRICAN AMERICAN YOUTH LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

74% of AFRICAN AMERICAN YOUTH LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $29k that is directly attributable, 90% of it comes from Colorado funders.

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CO

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

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Colorado out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $86k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. 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

AFRICAN AMERICAN YOUTH LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,200 youth development nonprofits its size.

Operating margin16% · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)8% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,200 youth development nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

Organizations like AFRICAN AMERICAN YOUTH LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE

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 Colorado

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Public support

98%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds AFRICAN AMERICAN YOUTH LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE?
AFRICAN AMERICAN YOUTH LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE (Colorado) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $115,217 to it, the largest being COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION ($85,068). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does AFRICAN AMERICAN YOUTH LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE have?
IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $115,217 in grants to AFRICAN AMERICAN YOUTH LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of AFRICAN AMERICAN YOUTH LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE?
COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $85,068 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like AFRICAN AMERICAN YOUTH LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 9 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