Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
ORGANIZATION FOR YOUTH EMPOWERMENT
ORGANIZATION FOR YOUTH EMPOWERMENT (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $890,888 to it, the largest being PRICESMART FOUNDATION ($155,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $559k
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- $891k
- Net assets
- $484k
What Organization for Youth Empowerment does
Mission
The Organization for Youth Empowerment is a social service organization assiting at-risk youth in honduras with high school and the college scholarships, academic tutoring, leadership training and training in the arts, graphic design, sports management and community service to promote the environment and to provide healthy activities for children
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Provide 96 academic scholarships at high school and university level to low income at-risk youth in tarea surrounding el progreso, yoro in honduras. This included counseling, tutoring and other services to insure their success.
$178,038 spentof which $154,161 as grants52% of program spendingProvide training for approximately 770 youth in health, self awareness, self esteem, tutoring for educational enhancements, civic responsibility, environmental outreach, and leadership development.
$85,595 spent25% of program spendingProvide training and practice in arts, culture, english, sports and graphic design. Community service is required for activities such as visiting orphanages and working with younger children tutoring in their schools and participating in games and sports activities with them.
$78,747 spent23% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $342,380.
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 $145k to $346k (+139%).
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 26% · 2018 35% · 2019 55% · 2020 33%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of ORGANIZATION FOR YOUTH EMPOWERMENT’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% 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
Rocio Mendoza
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $24k → $149k.
5 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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 ORGANIZATION FOR YOUTH EMPOWERMENT’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
ORGANIZATION FOR YOUTH EMPOWERMENT has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 85% · 2018 47% · 2019 30% · 2020 58% · 2021 55% · 2022 27% · 2023 47% — 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
33% of ORGANIZATION FOR YOUTH EMPOWERMENT's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
ORGANIZATION FOR YOUTH EMPOWERMENT draws 65% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $105k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
ORGANIZATION FOR YOUTH EMPOWERMENT runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 22,838 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,838 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like ORGANIZATION FOR YOUTH EMPOWERMENT
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
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ORGANIZATION FOR YOUTH EMPOWERMENT?
- ORGANIZATION FOR YOUTH EMPOWERMENT (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $890,888 to it, the largest being PRICESMART FOUNDATION ($155,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ORGANIZATION FOR YOUTH EMPOWERMENT have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $890,888 in grants to ORGANIZATION FOR YOUTH EMPOWERMENT, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ORGANIZATION FOR YOUTH EMPOWERMENT?
- PRICESMART FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $155,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ORGANIZATION FOR YOUTH EMPOWERMENT 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.
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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 2017–2024), 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing