Arizona · Nonprofit
ASPIRING YOUTH ACADEMY
ASPIRING YOUTH ACADEMY (Arizona) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,525,343 to it, the largest being EXECUTIVE COUNCIL CHARITIES ($1,366,316). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
ASPIRING YOUTH ACADEMY has grown faster than three-quarters of the 5,680 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,680 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Saguaros Childrens Charitiesshared funderslocalportfolio match
- Phoenix Community Development and Investment Corporationlocalportfolio match
- Thunderbirds Charitiesshared funderslocal
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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.
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.
100% of ASPIRING YOUTH ACADEMY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (83% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $49k → $179k.
2 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 ASPIRING YOUTH ACADEMY’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
ASPIRING YOUTH ACADEMY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 90% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
91% 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 ASPIRING YOUTH ACADEMY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 90% · 2018 95% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 95% · 2022 96% · 2023 90% — 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.
How long its funders stay
57% of ASPIRING YOUTH ACADEMY's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 44% give in more than one year at all.
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
92% of ASPIRING YOUTH ACADEMY's grant income comes from Arizona funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6k 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 16 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Saguaros Childrens Charitiesshared funderslocalportfolio matchAZ · backs 29 organizations that share your funders · funds 70 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Phoenix Community Development and Investment Corporationlocalportfolio matchAZ · funds 81 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Thunderbirds Charitiesshared funderslocalAZ · backs 106 organizations that share your funders · funds 301 organizations near you
- Tucson Conquistadores Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ellis Center for Educational Excellenceportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Beaty Martinez Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- A for Arizonaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Armstrong Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Arizona Strutportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Lester and Roberta Smith Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- APS Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Thomas R Brown Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like ASPIRING YOUTH ACADEMY
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Arizona
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
54% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ASPIRING YOUTH ACADEMY: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds ASPIRING YOUTH ACADEMY?
- ASPIRING YOUTH ACADEMY (Arizona) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,525,343 to it, the largest being EXECUTIVE COUNCIL CHARITIES ($1,366,316). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ASPIRING YOUTH ACADEMY have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $1,525,343 in grants to ASPIRING YOUTH ACADEMY, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ASPIRING YOUTH ACADEMY?
- EXECUTIVE COUNCIL CHARITIES is the largest funder on record, with $1,366,316 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ASPIRING YOUTH ACADEMY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arizona. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 16funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing