Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
HIP HOP CAUCUS EDUCATION FUND
HIP HOP CAUCUS EDUCATION FUND (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 51 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,168,182 to it, the largest being RESOURCES LEGACY FUND ($3,794,304). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 51
- Grants received
- $21M
- Net assets
- $2.2M
What Hip Hop Caucus Education Fund does
Mission
Our mission is to use the power of our cultural expression to empower communities who are first and worst impacted by injustice.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
"think 100%" is our program to advance a just transition to a clean energy economy, and a sustainable future for our planet and our communities. We mobilize communities and the media around health disparities due to disproportionate pollution and the dangerous impacts of climate change on bipoc communities and poor communities. We organize grassroots and "grasstops" leaders to advance climate solutions envisioned by the communities on the frontlines of the climate crisis.
$1,387,693 spent$6,530,456 earned by the program41% of program spendingThe "respect my vote!" campaign is a non-partisan voter mobilization and education campaign targeting young people between the ages of 18 and 40 years-old. We strengthen democracy by focusing on civic engagement to increase citizen participation in elections and the democratic process, and by advocating for election reform and full enfranchisement.
$609,692 spent$350,000 earned by the program18% of program spending"good trouble" in the 21st century is our program to train, empower, and provide resources to leaders between the ages of 14 and 40 years-old, to organize their communities on civil and human rights issues. Issues include criminal justice and police reform, civil liberties and freedoms, access to quality education, access to affordable health care, just immigration policy, equal rights for women and for lgbtq+, and just and appropriate responses to natural disasters.
$499,394 spent15% of program spendingJustice paid in full
$537,170 spent16% of program spendingPressure squad
$332,454 spent10% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,366,403.
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 2022 to 2023, from $1.4M to $8.3M (+504%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 3% · 2022 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of HIP HOP CAUCUS EDUCATION FUND’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
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
Rev Lennox Yearwood Jr
President & CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 21 funders, grant income rose $310k → $5.5M.
13 of 51 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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 HIP HOP CAUCUS EDUCATION FUND’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 51 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
HIP HOP CAUCUS EDUCATION FUND has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
53% 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 HIP HOP CAUCUS EDUCATION FUND.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 48% · 2018 47% · 2019 27% · 2020 19% · 2021 45% · 2022 25% · 2023 25% — 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
28% of HIP HOP CAUCUS EDUCATION FUND's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 45% give in more than one year at all.
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
HIP HOP CAUCUS EDUCATION FUND draws 90% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 13 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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.
Against its field
HIP HOP CAUCUS EDUCATION FUND has grown faster than half of the 1,928 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,928 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like HIP HOP CAUCUS EDUCATION FUND
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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
58% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
66%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Hip Hop Caucus Action Fund · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HIP HOP CAUCUS EDUCATION FUND: 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 HIP HOP CAUCUS EDUCATION FUND?
- HIP HOP CAUCUS EDUCATION FUND (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 51 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,168,182 to it, the largest being RESOURCES LEGACY FUND ($3,794,304). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HIP HOP CAUCUS EDUCATION FUND have?
- IRS filings report 51 organizations giving $21,168,182 in grants to HIP HOP CAUCUS EDUCATION FUND, 23 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HIP HOP CAUCUS EDUCATION FUND?
- RESOURCES LEGACY FUND is the largest funder on record, with $3,794,304 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HIP HOP CAUCUS EDUCATION FUND find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 51 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