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HARTFORD YOUTH SCHOLARS INC

HARTFORD YOUTH SCHOLARS INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 56 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,254,248 to it, the largest being ANDREW J & JOYCE D MANDELL FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($1,501,074). 37 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$1.9M
Funders on record
56
Grants received
$5.3M
Net assets
$2.2M
37/56 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 81%
01What it does

What Hartford Youth Scholars Inc does

Mission

To increase the number of hartford students who attend and graduate from four-year colleges and universities.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Hartford youth scholars, inc. ("hys") works with hartford students beginning when they are in middle school and helps them get "to and through" college. Hys helps highly motivated hartford students gain access to and graduate from best fit secondary schools and colleges. The organization provides scholars and their families with academic and mentoring support for 10 years, beginning the summer before students enter 7th grade and continuing through college graduation. Hys prepares their scholars to successfully complete a four-year college degree by offering them access to exceptional educational opportunities and providing them with ongoing, comprehensive supports. Hys envisions these scholars attaining college degrees and then returning to work and live in hartford, thereby inspiring and helping to cultivate similar achievements in younger hartford students.

    $914,512 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $914,512.

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($960k) Expenses 100 ($920k) Net assets 100 ($186k)2018 Revenue 202 ($1.9M) Expenses 104 ($961k) Net assets 624 ($1.2M)2019 Revenue 102 ($981k) Expenses 101 ($932k) Net assets 738 ($1.4M)2020 Revenue 96 ($925k) Expenses 96 ($880k) Net assets 840 ($1.6M)2021 Revenue 121 ($1.2M) Expenses 102 ($936k) Net assets 1029 ($1.9M)2022 Revenue 134 ($1.3M) Expenses 131 ($1.2M) Net assets 940 ($1.7M)2023 Revenue 146 ($1.4M) Expenses 161 ($1.5M) Net assets 978 ($1.8M)2024 Revenue 195 ($1.9M) Expenses 170 ($1.6M) Net assets 1189 ($2.2M)
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Revenue (195)Expenses (170)Net assets (1189)Peer revenue range

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 $234k to $1.2M (+430%).

$234k
$1.2M
$1.5M
$1.7M
$1.9M
$1.8M
$1.9M
$2.3M
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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
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

95% of HARTFORD YOUTH SCHOLARS INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,360 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$40k
’17
$974k
’18
$49k
’19
$45k
’20
$222k
’21
$83k
’22
−$82k
’23
$305k
’24
5.8
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.

Chief executive

Anthony Byers

Executive director

Board chair

Mishone Donelson

Chairperson

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed2827273333353030
Joined·+9+0+7+10+4+5+5
No longer listed·1001102105
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 14 funders to 23 funders, grant income rose $283k → $1.1M.

12 of 56 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 30% 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 HARTFORD YOUTH SCHOLARS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 56 funders by total. 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

HARTFORD YOUTH SCHOLARS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 29% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

35% 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 HARTFORD YOUTH SCHOLARS INC.

29%
largest funder
53%
top three
~8
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 35% · 2018 41% · 2019 54% · 2020 21% · 2021 25% · 2022 42% · 2023 30% — 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.

How long its funders stay

41% of HARTFORD YOUTH SCHOLARS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 66% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

58% of HARTFORD YOUTH SCHOLARS INC's grant income comes from Connecticut funders.

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NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
MO
DE
NC
DC
TX
FL

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

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Connecticut out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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

Against its field

HARTFORD YOUTH SCHOLARS INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 11,761 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin16% · above the median
Months of reserve5.8mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)10% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,761 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Organizations like HARTFORD YOUTH SCHOLARS 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

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

58% of spending goes to programs.

Program 58%Management 21%Fundraising 21%

Governance

28
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

97%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CT

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Questions and answers

Who funds HARTFORD YOUTH SCHOLARS INC?
HARTFORD YOUTH SCHOLARS INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 56 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,254,248 to it, the largest being ANDREW J & JOYCE D MANDELL FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($1,501,074). 37 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does HARTFORD YOUTH SCHOLARS INC have?
IRS filings report 56 organizations giving $5,254,248 in grants to HARTFORD YOUTH SCHOLARS INC, 37 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of HARTFORD YOUTH SCHOLARS INC?
ANDREW J & JOYCE D MANDELL FAMILY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,501,074 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like HARTFORD YOUTH SCHOLARS 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 56 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