California · Nonprofit
Mycelium Youth Network
Mycelium Youth Network (California) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,716,654 to it, the largest being THE ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON FOUNDATION ($495,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 29
- Grants received
- $1.7M
- Net assets
- $67k
What Mycelium Youth Network does
Mission
Mycelium Youth Network (MYN) is dedicated to equipping youth with the resources, training, and knowledge from the ground up that they will need to survive and thrive in a climate challenged world and prepare them for a climate challenged future.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Youth Leadership Council - Youth Leadership Counils model a way in which communities can authentically center youth voices in critical conversations and action-based planning around climate justice, transforming their schools and communities.
$447,012 spent$70,917 earned by the program47% of program spendingGaming For Justice - an interactive role-playing adventure game that uses a combination of oral storytelling, artistic depictions, and customized music to provide a fully immersed virtual gaming experience that allows adventurers to solve real world life issues and address ongoing challenges such as deforestation, police brutality, and gentrification.
$126,338 spent$52,140 earned by the program13% of program spendingEstuary Youth Council - empower and support youth from marginalized communities in the San Francisco Estuary to become influential leaders in the planning, management, and decision making of the San Francisco Estuary. Services are done in partnership with the San Francisco Estuary Partnership and the Community Based Organization Advisory Committee which also consists of Nuestra Casa and Restore the Delta along with Mycelium Youth Network.
$32,055 spent$31,952 earned by the program3% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$343,119 spent$18,835 earned by the program36% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $948,524.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $125k to $537k (+328%).
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 17% · 2022 30% · 2023 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
86% of Mycelium Youth Network’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 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
Jeannette Henriquez
Executive Director
Board chair
Sharoia Taylor
Board of Directors Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $40k → $816k.
9 of 29 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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 Mycelium Youth Network’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
Mycelium Youth Network 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
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 Mycelium Youth Network.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 87% · 2021 45% · 2022 48% · 2023 34% — 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
22% of Mycelium Youth Network's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 24% 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
55% of Mycelium Youth Network's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $369k 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
Mycelium Youth Network has grown faster than three-quarters 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 Mycelium Youth Network
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
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
78%
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 Mycelium Youth Network: 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 Mycelium Youth Network?
- Mycelium Youth Network (California) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,716,654 to it, the largest being THE ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON FOUNDATION ($495,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Mycelium Youth Network have?
- IRS filings report 29 organizations giving $1,716,654 in grants to Mycelium Youth Network, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Mycelium Youth Network?
- THE ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $495,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Mycelium Youth Network 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 29 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