California · Nonprofit
Isla Vista Youth Projects Inc dba LEAP LearnEngageAdvocatePartner
Isla Vista Youth Projects Inc dba LEAP LearnEngageAdvocatePartner (California) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,993,730 to it, the largest being JAMES S BOWER FOUNDATION ($776,750). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $7.8M
- Funders on record
- 31
- Grants received
- $3.0M
- Net assets
- $4.9M
What Isla Vista Youth Projects Inc dba LEAP LearnEngageAdvocatePartner does
Mission
Vision:We envision a community where children are loved, valued, and respected; and families are able to reach their highest potential.Core Beliefs:All children benefit when:- they have as many loving, responsive, safe (and consistent) adults as possible intheir lives, because children become resilient through relationships.- they have equal access to educational, social, and recreational opportunities.- they are in diverse economic, social, and cultural environments.- parents are engaged in their childs school and community, when they know howto navigate and advocate for their children, resulting in positive academicoutcomes.All families benefit when:- our teachers, family advocates and staff assume that caregivers want the best fortheir children- they develop social connections with multiple individuals, organizations and oneanother- they are supported to build relationships in diverse economic, social, and cultural environments in which they can feel safe, valued and wholeAll commun
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Children's Center: When children are cared for in a safe, stimulating and high-quality environment, they grow up to be lifelong learners and caregivers who can work or go to school in order to provide for their families. LEAPs three Childrens Center sites serve students with trauma-informed programs designed to facilitate cognitive, emotional, physical, social and creative growth to children in a language-rich environment that supports the ethnic and cultural diversity of the children. During the 2024-2025 fiscal year, all classrooms were full. We served 159 students.
$5,646,940 spent$46,155 earned by the program93% of program spendingLEAP's Family Resource Center mitigates the effects of poverty, racism, and trauma by strengthening families. Families become resilient through relationships with community organizations and with one another. LEAP's Family Resource Center provides parent education classes, case management, monthly food distributions, an emergencypersonal care and food pantry on site, clothing distributions, home visitation, andenrollment services for CalFresh, Medi-Cal, WIC and other resources communityengagement events. FRC services continued in FY 2024-2025. This year, LEAPsdiaper bank provided more than 61,000 diapers to more than 2,200 children.
$434,399 spent7% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,081,339.
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 2024 to 2025, from $5.0M to $7.1M (+44%).
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: 2017 71% · 2018 78% · 2019 69% · 2020 71% · 2021 85% · 2022 79% · 2023 88% · 2024 80% · 2025 81%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of Isla Vista Youth Projects Inc dba LEAP LearnEngageAdvocatePartner’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 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
Lori Lander Goodman
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 8 funders, grant income fell $395k → $296k.
6 of 31 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 28% 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 Isla Vista Youth Projects Inc dba LEAP LearnEngageAdvocatePartner’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 31 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
Isla Vista Youth Projects Inc dba LEAP LearnEngageAdvocatePartner has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% 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
43% 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 Isla Vista Youth Projects Inc dba LEAP LearnEngageAdvocatePartner.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 32% · 2018 44% · 2019 39% · 2020 31% · 2021 36% · 2022 42% · 2023 45% — 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
75% of Isla Vista Youth Projects Inc dba LEAP LearnEngageAdvocatePartner's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 68% 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
99% of Isla Vista Youth Projects Inc dba LEAP LearnEngageAdvocatePartner's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $827k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
Isla Vista Youth Projects Inc dba LEAP LearnEngageAdvocatePartner runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Isla Vista Youth Projects Inc dba LEAP LearnEngageAdvocatePartner
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.
Where the money goes
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 Isla Vista Youth Projects Inc dba LEAP LearnEngageAdvocatePartner: 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 Isla Vista Youth Projects Inc dba LEAP LearnEngageAdvocatePartner?
- Isla Vista Youth Projects Inc dba LEAP LearnEngageAdvocatePartner (California) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,993,730 to it, the largest being JAMES S BOWER FOUNDATION ($776,750). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Isla Vista Youth Projects Inc dba LEAP LearnEngageAdvocatePartner have?
- IRS filings report 31 organizations giving $2,993,730 in grants to Isla Vista Youth Projects Inc dba LEAP LearnEngageAdvocatePartner, 21 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Isla Vista Youth Projects Inc dba LEAP LearnEngageAdvocatePartner?
- JAMES S BOWER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $776,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Isla Vista Youth Projects Inc dba LEAP LearnEngageAdvocatePartner 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 31 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