North Carolina · Nonprofit
The Western Youth Network Inc
The Western Youth Network Inc (North Carolina) receives grants from 47 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,092,086 to it, the largest being KATHLEEN KENNEDY FOUNDATION ($1,125,000). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.2M
- Funders on record
- 47
- Grants received
- $3.1M
- Net assets
- $8.1M
What The Western Youth Network Inc does
Mission
Providing programs for at-risk youth
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
After school/summer program: wyn currently provides after school programming for watauga, alleghany and ashe counties. Wyns highly trained staff creates a secure and trauma-informed environment in which our youth can learn and grow from 3-6 pm. Further, wyn offers a summer day camp to get kids active and outdoors while being safe and supervirsed by our team.
$689,052 spent45% of program spendingCoummunity health: wyns community health team works to create a healthy, more equitable high country environment for youth and families. Serving a five-county region including watauga, avery, ashe alleghany and wilkes counties. Community health staff partner with a wide variety of local leaders, agencies, and community members to identify and address needs through collaboration at the local, state and federal level.
$572,571 spent37% of program spendingMentioring: wyns mentoring program helps youth between the ages of 6 and 17 in avery and watauga counties who need a little extra support and guidance. We do this by connecting them with an adult mentor to serve as their role model and supporter.
$273,058 spent18% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,534,681.
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.
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 $6.7M to $9.1M (+35%).
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: 2017 47% · 2018 53% · 2019 61% · 2020 59% · 2021 49% · 2022 44% · 2023 17% · 2024 29% · 2025 21%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
91% of The Western Youth Network Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 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
Jennier Warren
Executive Director
Board chair
Heidi Ragan
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $107k → $763k.
11 of 47 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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 Western Youth Network Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 47 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
The Western Youth Network Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 36% 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
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 The Western Youth Network Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 56% · 2018 50% · 2019 57% · 2020 45% · 2021 31% · 2022 71% · 2023 66% — growing more concentrated.
“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
26% of The Western Youth Network Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
91% of The Western Youth Network Inc's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $499k arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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 Western Youth Network Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding The Western Youth Network Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.0M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$1.0M
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 The Western Youth Network 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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
83%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for The Western Youth Network 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 The Western Youth Network Inc?
- The Western Youth Network Inc (North Carolina) receives grants from 47 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,092,086 to it, the largest being KATHLEEN KENNEDY FOUNDATION ($1,125,000). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The Western Youth Network Inc have?
- IRS filings report 47 organizations giving $3,092,086 in grants to The Western Youth Network Inc, 27 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Western Youth Network Inc?
- KATHLEEN KENNEDY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,125,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Western Youth Network Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 47 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