California · Nonprofit
KARE YOUTH LEAGUE
KARE YOUTH LEAGUE (California) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $392,069 to it, the largest being THE AHMANSON FOUNDATION ($100,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $7.6M
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- $392k
- Net assets
- $51M
What Kare Youth League does
Mission
Kare Youth League is a full service organization for school age children that encourages character values like faithfullness, responsibility, respect and teamwork through its facilities and educational programs, team sports, camping and outings
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Kare Youth League encourages character values like faithfulness, responsibility, respect and teamwork in approximately 1,200 children grades k-12 through age and ability oriented team sports. Members attend club-meetings, practices and games at kare facilities in arcadia, irwindale, and covina, california up to four times per week. Each team is guided by a trained leader to create a positive team atmosphere where each member is encouraged to make good choices in life. Members with their teams and leaders also attend camps and take field trips together. Additionally, kare rents its facilities to other organizations that promote recreation and character values.
$3,100,692 spent$1,283,805 earned by the program45% of program spendingKare Youth League operates two private college prep schools for its members. Pearl prep is for grades k-6 with approximately 170 students enrolled. Rio hondo prep is for grades 7-12 with approximately 180 students enrolled. Rio hondo prep and pearl prep are accredited by western association of schools and colleges.
$3,469,181 spent$3,042,541 earned by the program50% of program spendingKare Youth League owns and operates a camping facility under the name mount kare. The camp is located in the angeles national forest just above wrightwood, ca. It serves the schools and club, as well as other similar groups, both summer and winter. This facility is accredited by the american camping assocation.
$362,074 spent$492,182 earned by the program5% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,931,947.
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 $20M to $49M (+141%).
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 10% · 2018 11% · 2019 4% · 2020 9% · 2021 21% · 2022 3% · 2023 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
34% of KARE YOUTH LEAGUE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $27k → $10k.
7 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $16M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Kare Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money KARE YOUTH LEAGUE raised.
From the IRS filings of KARE YOUTH LEAGUE’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
KARE YOUTH LEAGUE 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
34% 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 KARE YOUTH LEAGUE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 93% · 2018 57% · 2019 76% · 2020 46% · 2021 59% · 2022 36% · 2023 77% — 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
20% of KARE YOUTH LEAGUE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% 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
84% of KARE YOUTH LEAGUE's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $131k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
KARE YOUTH LEAGUE's revenue fell 26% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like KARE YOUTH LEAGUE
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
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Kare Foundation · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for KARE YOUTH LEAGUE: 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 KARE YOUTH LEAGUE?
- KARE YOUTH LEAGUE (California) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $392,069 to it, the largest being THE AHMANSON FOUNDATION ($100,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does KARE YOUTH LEAGUE have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $392,069 in grants to KARE YOUTH LEAGUE, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KARE YOUTH LEAGUE?
- THE AHMANSON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KARE YOUTH LEAGUE 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 18 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