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EMPOWERED YOUTH INC

EMPOWERED YOUTH INC (Florida) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $124,098 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY WORLDWIDE ($50,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 62% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2021
$295k
Funders on record
9
Grants received
$124k
Net assets
$17k
3/9 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 22%
01What it does

What Empowered Youth Inc does

Mission

To break the cycle of teens who are or have been in the juvenile detention center by empowering them to create a lasting transformation and a positive life for themselves and the community.

As stated on its FY2021 Form 990.

Program

Empowered youth's main goal is getting the empowered youth cafe/food truck incubator program running successfully. The cafe/food truck operates as a training/job development program for students and graduates so they can get hands-on experience that will lead them to expanding the franchise and launching a vibe 305 franchise at the end of their training that will then train and employ more inner-city youths nationwide. The training period gives the time, exposure and discipline to perfect their management and cooking skills under the supervision of experts in the restaurant and food truck industries. The ultimate goal is for the young men and women to create a vibe 305 cafe truck franchise and share in the net profits of that activity and to give them a sustainable future to keep the cycle of prosperity moving forward.

The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($240k) Expenses 100 ($225k) Net assets 100 ($54k)2018 Revenue 99 ($237k) Expenses 86 ($193k) Net assets 181 ($98k)2019 Revenue 73 ($176k) Expenses 102 ($229k) Net assets 82 ($44k)2020 Revenue 108 ($259k) Expenses 146 ($328k) Net assets -45 ($-24419)2021 Revenue 123 ($295k) Expenses 113 ($254k) Net assets 32 ($17k)
20172018201920202021
Revenue (123)Expenses (113)Net assets (32)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $60k to $104k (+72%).

$60k
$104k
$68k
$72k
$35k
20172018201920202021
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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2019 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$15k
’17
$44k
’18
−$53k
’19
−$69k
’20
$42k
’21
0.3
months of
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.

20172018201920202021
Listed88884
Joined·+0+0+0+0
No longer listed·0004
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $3k → $19.

6 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 62% 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 EMPOWERED YOUTH 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

EMPOWERED YOUTH INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

62% 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 EMPOWERED YOUTH INC.

40%
largest funder
89%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 60% · 2018 97% · 2019 71% · 2020 97% · 2021 100% · 2022 99% · 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.

How long its funders stay

13% of EMPOWERED YOUTH INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 33% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

62% of EMPOWERED YOUTH INC'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 $47k that is directly attributable, 85% of it comes from funders outside Florida, across 2 states.

OH
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’18
’19
’21
Florida out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $77k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like EMPOWERED YOUTH 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 Florida

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

97% of spending goes to programs.

Program 97%Management 3%Fundraising 0%

Governance

4
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds EMPOWERED YOUTH INC?
EMPOWERED YOUTH INC (Florida) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $124,098 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY WORLDWIDE ($50,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 62% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does EMPOWERED YOUTH INC have?
IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $124,098 in grants to EMPOWERED YOUTH INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of EMPOWERED YOUTH INC?
UNITED WAY WORLDWIDE is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like EMPOWERED YOUTH INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 FY2021 (financials across 2017–2021), and the filings of 9 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