West Virginia · Nonprofit
RURAL DIGITAL YOUTH RESILIENCY PROJECT
RURAL DIGITAL YOUTH RESILIENCY PROJECT (West Virginia) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,705,000 to it, the largest being Democracy Fund Inc ($1,285,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $2.7M
- Net assets
- $2.1M
What Rural Digital Youth Resiliency Project does
Mission
Our mission is to investigate the risks that rural community members and rural young people face online, document social costs, and build resources for solutions and interventions to digitally-mediated harms. We convene a collaborative community of practice across technology, faith, journalism, academic, public health, veteran, and civil society organizations and work directly with affected communities to address and develop ground-level solutions and resources.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Local journalism cohort / convening - we expanded and continued to support a local reporters community of practice, which included new curriculum and trainings, updated digital security and safety for local journalists, support for local reporting on ai, religion, addiction, elections, as well as on-demand data support, resources and workshops for a range of topical local and regional reporting as needed with programming and support services in more than 30 states across the u.s. We hosted a convening and training event for participants in september 2025.
$225,658 spent36% of program spendingResearch - we continued focus groups with high school and college-age students on their digital experiences, digital culture, and exposure to online harms, and continued multi-platform digital ethnography with rural community members. We continued to develop a moral injury framework to address young people's exposure to online harms and susceptibility to online manipulation and added ai-mediated harms to this work. We continued work with a national rural youth working group, sharing resources, research, and collaborating on new research for addressing challenges facing rural youth, including out-of-school rural young people who are not college students (ged, workforce development, and others). We served as an active member of the coalition against online violence, including leading the working group on research and knowledge sharing. We supported research and best practices in trauma-informed research, community engagement, and reporting on vulnerable communities in rural spaces (such as young people, economically distressed, those coping with addiction, and others). We continued disseminating research through presentations, briefings, and workgroups for parents, educators, faith…
$118,912 spent19% of program spendingYouth trauma informed programming - we provided research and data insights to inform youth-led appalachian and rural media, and completed a multi-year, deep listening oral history project with appalachian genx and genalpha young adults. We continued civics and community wellbeing programming, film and media workshops, and conducted interviews and other engagement/outreach that reflect the experiences and realities of rural young people and rural families on and offline. We expanded our collaboration with the organization rural youth catalyst to develop curriculum, programs, and outreach designed for rural young people living with complex generational and community trauma, economic precarity, and disproportionately experiencing the impacts of harms both on and offline.
$53,287 spent8% of program spendingThis includes documentary program, reporting on religion program, and support for afp partnership
$231,548 spent37% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $629,405.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 $1.4M to $2.2M (+53%).
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.
96% of RURAL DIGITAL YOUTH RESILIENCY PROJECT’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $50k → $710k.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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 RURAL DIGITAL YOUTH RESILIENCY PROJECT’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
RURAL DIGITAL YOUTH RESILIENCY PROJECT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 60% · 2022 73% · 2023 51% — 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.
Where its funders are
RURAL DIGITAL YOUTH RESILIENCY PROJECT draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside West Virginia, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $120k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
RURAL DIGITAL YOUTH RESILIENCY PROJECT runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 497 public benefit nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 497 public benefit nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like RURAL DIGITAL YOUTH RESILIENCY PROJECT
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 West Virginia
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
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Appalachia Free Press Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for RURAL DIGITAL YOUTH RESILIENCY PROJECT: 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 RURAL DIGITAL YOUTH RESILIENCY PROJECT?
- RURAL DIGITAL YOUTH RESILIENCY PROJECT (West Virginia) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,705,000 to it, the largest being Democracy Fund Inc ($1,285,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does RURAL DIGITAL YOUTH RESILIENCY PROJECT have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $2,705,000 in grants to RURAL DIGITAL YOUTH RESILIENCY PROJECT, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RURAL DIGITAL YOUTH RESILIENCY PROJECT?
- Democracy Fund Inc is the largest funder on record, with $1,285,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RURAL DIGITAL YOUTH RESILIENCY PROJECT find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in West Virginia. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 6 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