Connecticut · Nonprofit
Creative Youth Productions Inc
Creative Youth Productions Inc (Connecticut) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $468,626 to it, the largest being DAVID AND EUNICE BIGELOW FOUNDATION ($245,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $312k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $469k
- Net assets
- $93k
What Creative Youth Productions Inc does
Mission
Creative Youth Productions Inc CYP mission is to develop youth leaders through the performing arts. CYP is committed to using the youth's voice organizationally, programmatically and creatively. CYP's goal is to acquire leadership, confidence, positive attitudes, and professionalism through dance, singing and film. Creating original productions in a safe environment, youth leaders make a dramatic impact on themselves, their peers, family and neighbors that changes lives forever.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
CYP Programs have a strong focus on building economic success, strong leadership skills, confidence and the ability to foster the self esteem and compencies of youth, particularly those who are at most risk. At its core, CYP Programs are about education and literacy. Participants are required to read, comprehend and write every day in the program and to create the new pieces of original art that they themselves have a voice in. They then have to make what they have read and interpret it, whether through song, dance, acting, or video. It requires them to think on their feet and process information accurately and communicate it even more carefully. For some Yt, this also becomes a workforce development initiative. CYP pays stipends to estimated 10 youth leaders middle and high school students throughout the year program. CYP offers real job opportunities so they undeerstand the realities of having a job, and being committed to it, and the expectations of what work is. CYP has partnerships with Wakeman Boys & Girls Club, Youth Service Bureau, City of Bridgeport, Bridgeport Board of Education and Double Up Dance Studio.
$179,546 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $179,546.
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 2024 to 2025, from $7k to $93k (+1143%).
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: 2019 48% · 2020 83% · 2021 72% · 2022 70% · 2023 68% · 2024 82% · 2025 76%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of Creative Youth Productions Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (83% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Board chair
Dr B Oyiboka Nwajagu
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $28k → $36k.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% 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 Creative Youth Productions Inc’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
Creative Youth Productions Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 89% · 2018 48% · 2019 60% · 2020 45% · 2021 41% · 2022 43% · 2023 69% — 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 Creative Youth Productions Inc's grant income comes from Connecticut funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $110k 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.
Against its field
Creative Youth Productions Inc runs a healthier operating margin 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
Government funding Creative Youth Productions Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.2M on record.
- State Aid Grants$1.2M
- Pass thru Grant Non-State$45k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Creative Youth Productions Inc
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 Connecticut
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
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Creative Youth Productions Inc: 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 Creative Youth Productions Inc?
- Creative Youth Productions Inc (Connecticut) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $468,626 to it, the largest being DAVID AND EUNICE BIGELOW FOUNDATION ($245,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Creative Youth Productions Inc have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $468,626 in grants to Creative Youth Productions Inc, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Creative Youth Productions Inc?
- DAVID AND EUNICE BIGELOW FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $245,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Creative Youth Productions Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. 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 7 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