California · Nonprofit
Pinkard Youth Institute
Pinkard Youth Institute (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $36,010 to it, the largest being JEFF T GREEN FAMILY FOUNDATION ($21,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $63k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $36k
- Net assets
- $41k
What Pinkard Youth Institute does
Mission
PINKARD YOUTH INSTITUTE is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the empowerment of youth. The organization sponsors educational workshops seminars activities and events that will educate and expose young people to opportunities that will enhance their awareness and need for community service. PYI accomplishes its objective through three key programs the Annual Black College Tour; the Summer Enrichment Academy in collaboration with CSUCI and the Summer Internship Program in collaboration with the County of Ventura CA. PYI is staffed with a group of community leaders and professionals who give generously of their time expertise and resources without payment.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
The Annual Black College Tour provides Ventura County high school students the opportunity to visit various Historically Black Colleges and Universitites primarily on the east coast. The Tour takes place for one week during spring break provides valuable and provides valuable educational and social experience to participants. The Tour is over 30 years old.
$43,255 spentof which $43,255 as grants75% of program spendingAfrican American Youth Enrichment Academy is an annual summer program held in collaboration with California State University Channel Islands CSUCI. HIgh School students from Ventura County spend a week on campus living in dorms and attending class. They gain valuable educational and social experience as well as obtaining credit for their course work.
$9,000 spentof which $9,000 as grants16% of program spendingThe Summer Internship Program provides work experience for disadvantaged 10th 11th and 12th graders from Ventura County CA. It is a six week program in collaboration with the County of Ventura. Participants gain valuable work experience and a a knowledge about the workings of county government.
$5,565 spentof which $5,565 as grants10% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $57,820.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Irene G Pinkard
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $15k → $11k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 Pinkard Youth Institute’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
Pinkard Youth Institute leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% of grant income and the top three 100%; 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: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
100% of Pinkard Youth Institute's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
Pinkard Youth Institute runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,200 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,200 youth development nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like Pinkard Youth Institute
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.
Public support
100%
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 Pinkard Youth Institute: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds Pinkard Youth Institute?
- Pinkard Youth Institute (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $36,010 to it, the largest being JEFF T GREEN FAMILY FOUNDATION ($21,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Pinkard Youth Institute have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $36,010 in grants to Pinkard Youth Institute, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Pinkard Youth Institute?
- JEFF T GREEN FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $21,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Pinkard Youth Institute 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.
Play a game about who funds Pinkard Youth Institute →
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2025–2025), and the filings of 3 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