Arizona · Nonprofit
The Launch Pad Teen Center
The Launch Pad Teen Center (Arizona) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,864,967 to it, the largest being ARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($696,303). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 30
- Grants received
- $2.9M
- Net assets
- $1.5M
What The Launch Pad Teen Center does
Mission
The Launch Pad is an all-inclusive space and does not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, sexuality, class, religion, or ability. The Launch Pad is a youth driven and focused space, providing programming that is culturally relevant to teens in Yavapai County. We believe that youth are powerful agents for change in their own lives and in the lives of others, we believe they are the experts of their own lived experiences, and that the best way to serve youth is through love, compassion, stability, with a deep respect and belief in their capacity to be powerful members of our community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The Launch Pad served more than 1,300 unique teens through our programs. The LaunchPad operated school circles for support and mentorship of struggling youth at five different schools in the local school district, and through the Yavapai Juvenile Justice Center twice per week, one at the detention center and one for their Journey Program participants at The Launch Pad. Twenty-six opportunity youth were involved in Circle Mentoring through our partnership with Yavapai Juvenile Justice Center. The Launch Pad offered a workforce development program called Project Launch three times over the year with 45 unique teen participants.
$584,649 spent$31,720 earned by the program70% of program spendingThe Launch Pad employed 24 teens in our Moon Caf during the 2024/2025 fiscal year. The Moon Caf, which opened in April of 2022, is a social enterprise where Prescott area youth gain work experience in a market that doesn't always offer professional training opportunities for teens; empowers youth to define their strengths and potential; and helps them understand the intricacies of retail business operations. Participants received 8-month, paid apprenticeships and left our program with both service and management experience, as well as an understanding of social enterprise.
$174,424 spent$24,380 earned by the program21% of program spendingDuring the 2024/2025 fiscal year The Launch Pad's Teen Advisory Council (TAC) completed the final phase of the Better Together Project, which was funded for 3 years by the Arizona Community Foundation. In 2024/2025, TAC completed the Better Together Project by organizing, planning and hosting 4 community wide dinners. The focus of these dinners was to bring community members together to learn and practice communication skills and engage in civil discourse. Participants ranged in age from 12-80+ and 600 people participated over the course of the year. TAC members engaged in many leadership activities. Here are some examples: reviewing peer applications for TAC membership, interviewing and approving new members, hosting meetings, organizing events and delegating duties, holding officer roles, engaging in strengths learning, setting up and taking down events, public speaking and engaging with the community. The average number of TAC participants for the 2024/2025 school year was 30 youth.
$74,516 spent$1,794 earned by the program9% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $833,589.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2021 to 2022, from $916k to $1.6M (+74%).
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: 2021 6% · 2022 5% · 2023 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
92% of The Launch Pad Teen Center’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 6 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
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $59k → $324k.
5 of 30 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 27% 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 The Launch Pad Teen 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.
How concentrated its funding is
The Launch Pad Teen Center has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
51% 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 The Launch Pad Teen Center.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 94% · 2018 85% · 2019 50% · 2020 25% · 2021 23% · 2022 43% · 2023 37% — 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
56% of The Launch Pad Teen Center's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
89% of The Launch Pad Teen Center's grant income comes from Arizona funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $783k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
The Launch Pad Teen Center runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,064 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,064 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like The Launch Pad Teen Center
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 Arizona
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
63%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for The Launch Pad Teen 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 The Launch Pad Teen Center?
- The Launch Pad Teen Center (Arizona) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,864,967 to it, the largest being ARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($696,303). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The Launch Pad Teen Center have?
- IRS filings report 30 organizations giving $2,864,967 in grants to The Launch Pad Teen Center, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Launch Pad Teen Center?
- ARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $696,303 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Launch Pad Teen Center find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arizona. 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 30 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