Tennessee · Nonprofit
PURE YOUTH ATHLETICS ALLIANCE INC
PURE YOUTH ATHLETICS ALLIANCE INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,284,091 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MEMPHIS INC ($2,041,683). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.2M
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- $3.3M
- Net assets
- $2.9M
What Pure Youth Athletics Alliance Inc does
Mission
Our mission, as an accredited category 1 private 365-day boarding high school for under-resourced neighborhood young men, is to develop these students into community-minded productive leaders by providing a comprehensive education in a supportive residential environment. Students voluntarily enroll with family approval, gaining access to an unparalleled structure designed to break cycles of generational poverty and underachievement.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Academic & residential program- our key advantage is our ability to structure 70% of a student's annual time under adult supervision thereby creating an immersive environment that accelerates academic growth, personal development, and life readiness. Most of our students enter high school testing significantly below grade level. We bridge this gap through a school program that includes an agristem curriculum, career and technical education (cte), credit recovery and dual enrollment opportunities. Our extended after school schedule allows for mandatory individualized tutoring, trauma counseling, athletic and wellness programs, consistent nutrition and sleep routines, and summer college tours. Traditional schools cannot effectively deliver many of these programs : number of students served: 50
$2,107,608 spent$154,639 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,107,608.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2024 to 2025, from $2.7M to $6.5M (+142%).
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: 2019 36% · 2020 27% · 2021 19% · 2022 33% · 2023 4% · 2024 6% · 2025 41%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of PURE YOUTH ATHLETICS ALLIANCE INC’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. 2 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
Melvin Cole
Executive director
Board chair
John Golwen
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 7 funders, grant income rose $8k → $1.4M.
8 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 92% 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 PURE YOUTH ATHLETICS ALLIANCE 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
PURE YOUTH ATHLETICS ALLIANCE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
94% 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 PURE YOUTH ATHLETICS ALLIANCE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 53% · 2020 29% · 2021 32% · 2022 33% · 2023 72% — 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
71% of PURE YOUTH ATHLETICS ALLIANCE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% 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
92% of PURE YOUTH ATHLETICS ALLIANCE INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $251k that is directly attributable, 70% of it comes from Tennessee funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.0M 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
PURE YOUTH ATHLETICS ALLIANCE INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,152 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,152 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding PURE YOUTH ATHLETICS ALLIANCE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $20k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$20k
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 PURE YOUTH ATHLETICS ALLIANCE 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 Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
80%
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 PURE YOUTH ATHLETICS ALLIANCE INC: 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 PURE YOUTH ATHLETICS ALLIANCE INC?
- PURE YOUTH ATHLETICS ALLIANCE INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,284,091 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MEMPHIS INC ($2,041,683). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does PURE YOUTH ATHLETICS ALLIANCE INC have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $3,284,091 in grants to PURE YOUTH ATHLETICS ALLIANCE INC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PURE YOUTH ATHLETICS ALLIANCE INC?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MEMPHIS INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,041,683 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PURE YOUTH ATHLETICS ALLIANCE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2019–2025), 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