Delaware · Nonprofit
LEADING YOUTH THROUGH EMPOWERMENT INC
LEADING YOUTH THROUGH EMPOWERMENT INC (Delaware) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,045,703 to it, the largest being LONGWOOD FOUNDATION INC ($1,177,500). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.0M
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- $2.0M
- Net assets
- $730k
What Leading Youth Through Empowerment Inc does
Mission
Lyte prepares economically disadvantaged youth for success from classroom to career through rigorous academic instruction, personal mentoring, and career development. Our nine-year program supports students from middle school through college, helping them overcome barriers, access higher education, and enter the workforce prepared to lead fulfilling, productive lives.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Lyte believes educational success and work experience drives life success, yet opportunity isn't available for lower income students. Lyte helps title I 8th graders access competitive high schools and supports them through college toward career-aligned degrees. Lyte curriculum begins in middle school with advanced after-school and summer classes, exam preparation, and guidance on high school choice and financial aid. In high school, four-years of programming pairs each scholar with an advisor, offering tutoring, rigorous coursework, goal-setting, college planning, and paid internships. In college, programming strengthens college success through advising, financial aid support, and professional development. Across all nine years, lyte's career pipeline provides hands-on experience, industry certifications, paid internship opportunities, and 529 college savings opportunities to prepare scholars for high-demand careers.
$840,724 spent$439,604 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $840,724.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2020 to 2021, from $179k to $590k (+229%).
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: 2018 2% · 2019 30% · 2020 31% · 2021 23% · 2024 20%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
58% of LEADING YOUTH THROUGH EMPOWERMENT INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 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
Ankur Arya
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $10k → $639k.
7 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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 LEADING YOUTH THROUGH EMPOWERMENT INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 17 of 18 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
LEADING YOUTH THROUGH EMPOWERMENT INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 99% · 2018 72% · 2019 77% · 2020 99% · 2021 79% · 2022 28% · 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
25% of LEADING YOUTH THROUGH EMPOWERMENT INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
100% of LEADING YOUTH THROUGH EMPOWERMENT INC's grant income comes from Delaware funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $473k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
LEADING YOUTH THROUGH EMPOWERMENT INC is better cushioned than half of the 11,752 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,752 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding LEADING YOUTH THROUGH EMPOWERMENT INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.5M on record.
- GRANTS$931k
- INSTRUCTIONAL SERVICES$749k
- OTHER PROFESSIONAL SERVICE$213k
- TRAINING$197k
- FED GRANT SUB RECIPIENT$165k
- STUDENT BODY ACTIVITY$121k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like LEADING YOUTH THROUGH EMPOWERMENT 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 Delaware
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
62%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds LEADING YOUTH THROUGH EMPOWERMENT INC?
- LEADING YOUTH THROUGH EMPOWERMENT INC (Delaware) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,045,703 to it, the largest being LONGWOOD FOUNDATION INC ($1,177,500). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LEADING YOUTH THROUGH EMPOWERMENT INC have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $2,045,703 in grants to LEADING YOUTH THROUGH EMPOWERMENT INC, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LEADING YOUTH THROUGH EMPOWERMENT INC?
- LONGWOOD FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,177,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LEADING YOUTH THROUGH EMPOWERMENT INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Delaware. 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 2018–2024), 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