California · Nonprofit
Elite Skills Development
Elite Skills Development (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $423,500 to it, the largest being The Josephine S Gumbiner Foundation ($120,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $117k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $424k
- Net assets
- $17k
What Elite Skills Development does
Mission
Youth mentoring and community engagement and organizing financial literacy
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Provided life management skills to 100 youth through our Empowered Life Skills program.
$75,000 spentof which $75,000 as grants78% of program spendingProvided community outreach and education regarding the extreme heat job development and needs within LA County to 1500 residents
$11,000 spentof which $12,000 as grants11% of program spendingDeveloped a strategic plan and board training
$10,000 spentof which $10,000 as grants10% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $96,000.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2021 to 2022, from $41k to $21k (−49%).
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 Elite Skills Development’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.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Sharon Jackson
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2022: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income held at $25k.
3 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% 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 Elite Skills Development’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
Elite Skills Development leans on a few funders — its largest provides 28% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
72% 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 Elite Skills Development.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 66% · 2022 80% — 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
100% of Elite Skills Development's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $94k 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
Elite Skills Development runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 5,705 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,705 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Elite Skills Development
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
73%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Elite Skills Development: 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 Elite Skills Development?
- Elite Skills Development (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $423,500 to it, the largest being The Josephine S Gumbiner Foundation ($120,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Elite Skills Development have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $423,500 in grants to Elite Skills Development, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Elite Skills Development?
- The Josephine S Gumbiner Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $120,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Elite Skills Development 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2021–2024), 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing