California · Nonprofit
DENA YOUTH BASKETBALL
DENA YOUTH BASKETBALL (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $0 to it, the largest being GOOD SPORTS INC ($0). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $54k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $0
- Net assets
- $903
What Dena Youth Basketball does
Mission
DENA YOUTH BASKETBALL (DENA) is a nonprofit organization that was formed in order to provide elementary and middle school aged girls with opportunities to learn and excel in basketball, as a stepping stone to greater opportunities in higher education. DENA uses basketball as a vehicle to teach strong work ethic, perseverance, trust, discipline, and overcoming obstacles to reach an objective, all necessary components for academic and life success.
As stated on its FY2021 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent*form 990-ez, part iii, line 31: Dena Youth Basketballs (dena) primary purpose as a nonprofit organization was formed in order to provide elementary and middle school aged girls with the opportunity to learn and excel in basketball, and as a stepping stone to improved opportunities in obtaining their educational pursuits. Furthermore, dena employs basketball as a vehicle to teach ethics, perseverance, trust and discipline in order to overcome obstacles faced in our daily lives and academia for success. Other: *form 990-z, pt.iii, line 28: dena sustained a major loss and interruption in participation due to the eaton wildfire disaster in 2025. Many of the participants were displaced, homeless, and forced to attend new schools in other school districts due to the eaton wildfire tragedy. A substantial amount of our participants parents could not afford to pay their membership and tournament fees and was unable to transport the participants to practice and basketball games. Furthermore, dena was faced with mounting increases in their general costs such as the practice facilities, hosted tournaments and travel fees. Therefore, dena incurred numerous hardships and financial loss in 2025.
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.
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 2023 to 2024, from $2k to $521 (−66%).
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.
95% of DENA YOUTH BASKETBALL’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (99% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
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
Ed Chavous
Chairman/director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Against its field
DENA YOUTH BASKETBALL's revenue fell 48% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,356 youth development nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like DENA YOUTH BASKETBALL
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
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 DENA YOUTH BASKETBALL: 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 DENA YOUTH BASKETBALL?
- DENA YOUTH BASKETBALL (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $0 to it, the largest being GOOD SPORTS INC ($0). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DENA YOUTH BASKETBALL have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $0 in grants to DENA YOUTH BASKETBALL.
- Who is the largest funder of DENA YOUTH BASKETBALL?
- GOOD SPORTS INC is the largest funder on record, with $0 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DENA YOUTH BASKETBALL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 2017–2025), 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing