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REBEL VENTURES

REBEL VENTURES (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $347,763 to it, the largest being THE WILLIAM PENN FOUNDATION ($75,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$28k
Funders on record
15
Grants received
$348k
Net assets
$71k
5/15 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 52%
01What it does

What Rebel Ventures does

Mission

Social enterprise engaging youth in leadership and entrpreneurship that develops and distribute products directly with and for kids in our community.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Rebel Ventures engaged 6 low-income high school students in meaningful entrepreneurship education in 2025. These students learned entrepreneurship by being entrepreneurs. They participated in numerous activities including developing a new rebel crumble flavor, social media marketing, and leading business meetings and attending workshops.

    $11,965 spent
    62% of program spending
  2. The smoothie bike project is a collarboration that engages penn students, local high school students and university of pennsylvania netter center staff in re-purposing used bikes and used blenders into educational and joyful kid-powered smoothie making machines.

    $6,367 spent
    33% of program spending
  3. The Rebel Ventures high school crew conducted rigorous healthy food research and development by creating healthy versions of classic meal favorites/continuing to develop a new food item that can served as a snack or lunch item while continuing our distribution of rebel crumbles to kids as part of school breakfast.

    $925 spent
    5% of program spending
  4. Rebel Ventures initiated youth-powered, health-promotion projects. Rebel Ventures partnered with a local philadelphia history museum to co-curate an exhibit about school food. Rebel Ventures also curated a section of the exhibit focusing on the Rebel Ventures' history and mission of youth-powered healthy deliciousness.

    $143 spent
    1% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $19,400.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($311k) Expenses 100 ($182k) Net assets 100 ($237k)2020 Revenue 74 ($230k) Expenses 113 ($206k) Net assets 110 ($261k)2021 Revenue 62 ($194k) Expenses 104 ($190k) Net assets 112 ($265k)2022 Revenue 32 ($100k) Expenses 112 ($203k) Net assets 68 ($162k)2023 Revenue 24 ($75k) Expenses 90 ($164k) Net assets 31 ($73k)2024 Revenue 12 ($36k) Expenses 21 ($39k) Net assets 30 ($70k)2025 Revenue 9 ($28k) Expenses 15 ($28k) Net assets 30 ($71k)
2019202020212022202320242025
Revenue (9)Expenses (15)Net assets (30)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $274k to $171k (−38%).

$243k
$299k
$274k
$171k
$81k
$78k
$79k
2019202020212022202320242025
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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2019 6% · 2020 30% · 2021 17%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

100% of REBEL VENTURES’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (99% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 6,261 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$129k
’19
$24k
’20
$4k
’21
−$103k
’22
−$89k
’23
−$3k
’24
$652
’25
16
months of
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.

Board chair

Daniel Merin

Board chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

201920202021
Listed999
Joined·+0+5
No longer listed·05
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $2k → $34k.

4 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 19% 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 REBEL VENTURES’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

REBEL VENTURES has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% 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

28% 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 REBEL VENTURES.

22%
largest funder
49%
top three
~8
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 42% · 2020 25% · 2021 25% · 2022 78% · 2023 74% — 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

27% of REBEL VENTURES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 33% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

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

58% of REBEL VENTURES's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.

ID
IL
NY
PA
CA
DC

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

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Pennsylvania out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $67k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

REBEL VENTURES's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 3 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin2% · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−33% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,200 youth development nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Public support

56%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

PA

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Questions and answers

Who funds REBEL VENTURES?
REBEL VENTURES (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $347,763 to it, the largest being THE WILLIAM PENN FOUNDATION ($75,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does REBEL VENTURES have?
IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $347,763 in grants to REBEL VENTURES, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of REBEL VENTURES?
THE WILLIAM PENN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $75,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like REBEL VENTURES find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 15 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