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BEYOND YOUR BLOCK

BEYOND YOUR BLOCK (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $7,114 to it, the largest being INVITED FOUNDATION ($7,114). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$45k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$7k
Net assets
$10k
0/1 repeat funders
01What it does

What Beyond Your Block does

Mission

Part III, Organization's primary exempt purpose: Beyond Your Block exist to ensure that every kid has the opportunity to expand their horizons by transcending their boundaries outside of their neighborhood. Our mission is to expand opportunities for young people by equipping them with creative and technical skills while fostering confidence and career readiness. We empower underserved youth through media, filmmaking, and mentorship programs that provide hands-on experience, industry exposure, and life skills.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Line 28 Beyond Your Block operated a youth film education program that introduced students to filmmaking through instruction in storytelling, camera operation, sound, and editing. Students produced short films, and developed creative and technical skills using industry standard equipment and software. Beyond Your Block provided youth participants with professional-grade equipment to create their own films.

    $29,169 spent
    83% of program spending
  2. Line 29 Beyond Your Block provided youth with access to professional sports training opportunities they would not usually have, enabling participants to develop athletic skills, building confidence, and explore pathways to pursue sports at higher levels.

    $4,620 spent
    13% of program spending
  3. Line 30 Beyond Your Block provided youth with the opportunity to travel to New York City to attend Broadway and explore new environments, expanding their cultural exposure and helping them see possibilities beyond their own neighborhoods.

    $1,560 spent
    4% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $35,349.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20232023 Revenue 100 ($5k) Expenses 0 ($0) Net assets 100 ($5k)2024 Revenue 564 ($28k) Expenses 100 ($23k) Net assets 205 ($10k)2025 Revenue 904 ($45k) Expenses 198 ($46k) Net assets 199 ($10k)
202320242025
Revenue (904)Expenses (198)Net assets (199)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 2023 to 2024, from $5k to $10k (+105%).

$5k
$10k
$10k
202320242025
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.

2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

1% of BEYOND YOUR BLOCK’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (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. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.

$5k
’23
$5k
’24
−$322
’25

Leadership and staff

Board chair

Skip Bland

President of the board

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'24*
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of BEYOND YOUR BLOCK’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.

Where its funders are

BEYOND YOUR BLOCK draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 1 state in all.

TX

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

BEYOND YOUR BLOCK has grown faster than three-quarters of the 3,200 youth development nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−1% · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)201% · top quartile

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

Organizations like BEYOND YOUR BLOCK

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 Washington, D.C.

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

DC

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BEYOND YOUR BLOCK: 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 BEYOND YOUR BLOCK?
BEYOND YOUR BLOCK (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $7,114 to it, the largest being INVITED FOUNDATION ($7,114). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does BEYOND YOUR BLOCK have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $7,114 in grants to BEYOND YOUR BLOCK.
Who is the largest funder of BEYOND YOUR BLOCK?
INVITED FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $7,114 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BEYOND YOUR BLOCK find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 2023–2025), and the filings of 1 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