North Carolina · Nonprofit
CHEROKEE YOUTH CENTER BOYS & GIRLS CLUB
CHEROKEE YOUTH CENTER BOYS & GIRLS CLUB (North Carolina) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,429,653 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,600,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.2M
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $2.4M
- Net assets
- $236k
What Cherokee Youth Center Boys & Girls Club does
Mission
To enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to realize their full potential as productive, caring and responsible citizens.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Power hour: making minutes count the youth center utilizes staff members and tutors from the education program at western carolina university work together to provide club members with a comprehensive homework help and tutoring program designed to raise academic proficiency.
$541,162 spent32% of program spendingTriple play:triple play is a dynamic wellness program currently offered in boys & girls clubs that demonstrates how eating right, keeping fit and forming positive relationships add up to a healthy lifestyle. The goal of triple play program is to improve club members' knowledge of healthy habits, increase the number of hours per day they participate in physical activities, and strengthen their ability to interact positively with others and engage in positive relationships. This program teaches participants basic computer skills.
$456,163 spent27% of program spendingSmart moves:smart moves (skills mastery and resistance training) is a prevention/education program offered through the boys and girls clubs of america (b&gca). Smart moves addresses issues concerning drugs, alcohol, gangs, and premature sexual activity. Smart moves consists of a variety of age-appropriate small group programs and activities that increase participants peer support such activities include field trips, hosting dances, and offering educational events to help parents talk with their children about difficult issues.
$222,414 spent$89,617 earned by the program13% of program spendingThe organization offers multiple other afterschool programs focusing on multiple development areas such as tutoring, anti-bullying, technology, and financial literacy. All designed to provide participants with skillsets to help them succeed in school and beyond.
$457,169 spent27% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,676,908.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $2.0M to $3.6M (+82%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 10% · 2018 75% · 2019 6% · 2020 3% · 2021 6% · 2022 5% · 2023 7% · 2024 2% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
91% of CHEROKEE YOUTH CENTER BOYS & GIRLS CLUB’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $49k → $13k.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 66% 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 CHEROKEE YOUTH CENTER BOYS & GIRLS CLUB’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
CHEROKEE YOUTH CENTER BOYS & GIRLS CLUB leans on a few funders — its largest provides 66% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 CHEROKEE YOUTH CENTER BOYS & GIRLS CLUB.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 41% · 2018 63% · 2019 66% · 2020 83% · 2021 100% · 2022 97% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
66% of CHEROKEE YOUTH CENTER BOYS & GIRLS CLUB'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 $830k that is directly attributable, 86% of it comes from funders outside North Carolina, across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Against its field
CHEROKEE YOUTH CENTER BOYS & GIRLS CLUB holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,064 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,064 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like CHEROKEE YOUTH CENTER BOYS & GIRLS CLUB
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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CHEROKEE YOUTH CENTER BOYS & GIRLS CLUB?
- CHEROKEE YOUTH CENTER BOYS & GIRLS CLUB (North Carolina) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,429,653 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,600,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CHEROKEE YOUTH CENTER BOYS & GIRLS CLUB have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $2,429,653 in grants to CHEROKEE YOUTH CENTER BOYS & GIRLS CLUB, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHEROKEE YOUTH CENTER BOYS & GIRLS CLUB?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,600,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHEROKEE YOUTH CENTER BOYS & GIRLS CLUB find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 5 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