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EPIC Youth

EPIC Youth (Ohio) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $113,521 to it, the largest being COLUMBUS FOUNDATION ($45,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$811k
Funders on record
6
Grants received
$114k
Net assets
$173k
3/6 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 7%
01What it does

What EPIC Youth does

Mission

To empower youth to live purposeful lives fueled by personal skills andtalents, positive character, self-improvement, personal leadership skillsand career readiness.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. To empower youth to live purposeful lives fueled by personal skills andtalents, positive character, self-improvement, personal leadership skillsand career readiness.

    $768,012 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $768,012.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20212021 Net assets 0 ($0)2022 Revenue 100 ($498k) Expenses 100 ($204k) Net assets 100 ($220k)2023 Revenue 112 ($557k) Expenses 286 ($583k) Net assets 85 ($188k)2024 Revenue 163 ($811k) Expenses 408 ($832k) Net assets 78 ($173k)
2021202220232024
Revenue (163)Expenses (408)Net assets (78)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $220k to $201k (−9%).

$0
$220k
$201k
$182k
2021202220232024
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.

2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2023 31% · 2024 22%. 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 3 reported years ran a deficit.

’21
$294k
’22
−$25k
’23
−$20k
’24
2.5
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.

Board chair

Brandon Curry

Chairman

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

202220232024
Listed557
Joined·+1+4
No longer listed·12
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $3k → $40k.

1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 40% 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 EPIC Youth’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

EPIC Youth leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

88% 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 EPIC Youth.

40%
largest funder
88%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 50% — 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

99% of EPIC Youth's grant income comes from Ohio funders.

NY
OH
SC

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

’22
’23
Ohio out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $45k 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like EPIC Youth

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 Ohio

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

92% of spending goes to programs.

Program 92%Management 6%Fundraising 1%

Governance

3
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

0%

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

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for EPIC Youth: 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 EPIC Youth?
EPIC Youth (Ohio) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $113,521 to it, the largest being COLUMBUS FOUNDATION ($45,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does EPIC Youth have?
IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $113,521 in grants to EPIC Youth, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of EPIC Youth?
COLUMBUS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $45,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like EPIC Youth find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 2022–2024), 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing