Tennessee · Nonprofit
Be The Change Youth Initiative
Be The Change Youth Initiative (Tennessee) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $99,530 to it, the largest being Lyndhurst Foundation Inc ($40,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $177k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $100k
- Net assets
- $24k
What Be The Change Youth Initiative does
Mission
Mission Statement: At Be The Change Youth Initiative we believe all youth should be SEEN HEARD and LOVED. Driven by our commitment to encourage youth towards balanced mental well-being we educate equip and empower the next generation to become advocates for their communities. We do this through personal engagement and collaboration through art music and leadership as they Share Stories Extend Compassion and Take Action towards a brighter tomorrow.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Empty Bowls: Our annual food insecurity event benefiting families in Hamilton County accruing school food debt. Venue expenses printing decorations
$6,743 spent41% of program spendingHoliday Concert for a Cause Toy Drive: A concert series and toy drive for approximately 950 youth in Chattanooga
$7,823 spent47% of program spendingYouth Art Initiative after school program at CGLA
$1,950 spent12% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $16,516.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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.
Balance sheet
Total assets at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $16k to $24k (+51%).
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 Be The Change Youth Initiative’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. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $3k → $19k.
From the IRS filings of Be The Change 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
Be The Change Youth Initiative leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
27% 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 Be The Change Youth Initiative.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 53% — diversifying over time.
“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
92% of Be The Change Youth Initiative's grant income comes from Tennessee funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Against its field
Be The Change Youth Initiative has grown faster than three-quarters of the 3,482 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,482 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Be The Change 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 Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Be The Change 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 Be The Change Youth Initiative?
- Be The Change Youth Initiative (Tennessee) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $99,530 to it, the largest being Lyndhurst Foundation Inc ($40,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Be The Change Youth Initiative have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $99,530 in grants to Be The Change Youth Initiative, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Be The Change Youth Initiative?
- Lyndhurst Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $40,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Be The Change Youth Initiative find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 2023–2025), and the filings of 6 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