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POSITIVE YOUTH LIFE CENTER

POSITIVE YOUTH LIFE CENTER (Mississippi) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $30,500 to it, the largest being DOLLAR GENERAL LITERACY FOUNDATION ($30,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2018
$15k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$31k
Net assets
$0
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 65%
01What it does

What Positive Youth Life Center does

Mission

Changing the lives and bringing to maturity youths of all walks of life and offering a 21st century program to aid in education and tutoring after school students k-12 grade

As stated on its FY2018 Form 990.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($22k) Expenses 100 ($22k)2018 Revenue 71 ($15k) Expenses 71 ($15k)
20172018
Revenue (71)Expenses (71)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars.

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$0
20172018
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 100% · 2018 95%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

100% of POSITIVE YOUTH LIFE CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,498 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.

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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.

20172018
Listed11
Joined··
No longer listed··
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2021: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $5k → $3k.

Funder
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'20
'21
total
funders
1
1
1
1
1

From the IRS filings of POSITIVE YOUTH LIFE CENTER’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.

Where its funders are

POSITIVE YOUTH LIFE CENTER draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Mississippi, across 1 state in all.

TN

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Mississippi out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

POSITIVE YOUTH LIFE CENTER's revenue fell 29% between 2017 and 2018.

Operating margin0% · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−29% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 8,383 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2018

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

57% of spending goes to programs.

Program 57%Management 43%Fundraising 0%

Governance

5
board members
0%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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

MS

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for POSITIVE YOUTH LIFE CENTER: 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 POSITIVE YOUTH LIFE CENTER?
POSITIVE YOUTH LIFE CENTER (Mississippi) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $30,500 to it, the largest being DOLLAR GENERAL LITERACY FOUNDATION ($30,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does POSITIVE YOUTH LIFE CENTER have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $30,500 in grants to POSITIVE YOUTH LIFE CENTER, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of POSITIVE YOUTH LIFE CENTER?
DOLLAR GENERAL LITERACY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $30,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like POSITIVE YOUTH LIFE CENTER find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Mississippi. 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 FY2018 (financials across 2017–2018), and the filings of 1 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