Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
THE YOUNG WOMEN'S PROJECT
THE YOUNG WOMEN'S PROJECT (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,093,619 to it, the largest being GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($538,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 50% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $921k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $1.4M
What The Young Women's Project does
Mission
Ywp builds the leadership and power of young people so that they can transform dc institutions to expand rights and opportunities for dc youth. Ywp programs engage youth on three levels - as peer educators, advocates, and employees - and guide them through a process of personal growth as community leaders who are able to analyze problems, identify solutions, and advocate for change. Founded in 1994, ywp has a staff of 6 and manages two offices. Ywp is value-driven, anti-racist, feminist, grounded in youth development and partnership, and works every day to dismantle oppression and rebuild institutions.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
P2p-sbmh (peer to peer school based mental health program, dbh funded). This program overlaps significantly with the mental health campaign (mhc). With the overall goals of reducing stigma and the impact of toxic stress and trauma, increasing school-based mental health services, and expanding school-based mental-wellness education, the school-based behavioral health student peer educator pilot program (sb-bh p2p) trained and supported a cadre of more than 122 youth staff leaders (ages 14-19) from 30+ dc public schools who will use education, referrals, social media, and student on- line support (sos) virtual wellness centers to educate to engage 12,032 peers and connect them to mental health services. P2p-sbmh youth staff reached 12,032 peers with mental health education and support including 11,013 through classroom presentations and 2,120 with weekly resources and skills-focused information. Youth connected 2,879 directly to counselors and mental health providers. More than 65% of youth staff and youth reached will live in high poverty neighborhoods and wards 5, 7 and 8. With the overall goals of reducing stigma and the impact of toxic stress and trauma, increasing school-based…
$313,679 spent$311,157 earned by the program63% of program spendingThe youth advisory council (yac) the dc youth advisory council (dc yac) engages 30 dc youth from all wards and several schools who engage and develop as leaders, workers, and healthy youth. Yac members develop their ability to successfully navigate transitions, build meaningful relationships, achieve personal goals, increase agency, and improve personal health outcomes. They also use their leadership and skills to increase health care quality and access for their peers, with health education, social media, advocacy, and community outreach events. The 2023-24 yac team includes 30 youth from 13 dc public high schools who contributed to program outcomes in yhep and mhc. Yac youth leaders educated 300 peers with weekly vpsa messages, reached 2,250 through classroom presentations, and distributed 7,000 condoms.
$116,470 spent$137,718 earned by the program23% of program spendingYouth health educator program (yhep) - young people come into our organization as peer educators through the yhep, a partnership with dc health and dcps, where they work in their schools and communities educating their peers, distributing condoms, and referring youth to clinics. Youth staff earn 15 an hour, work on teams and with a manager, apply their skills, develop professional behavior, and put together a portfolio of work products. In 2021, we hired and trained 182 youth staff from all wards and 24 public schools, who engaged more than 12,000 of their peers through health education, social media, and referrals that connect youth to essential mental and sexual health resources. In year one, peer educators engage in a rigorous curriculum that teaches sexual health and peer education as well as life skills;
$48,380 spent10% of program spendingYouth justice campaigns (yjc) - in year two, youth educators join the yjc, where they work as advocates and organizers to advance a bold advocacy agenda based on the real-life issues, and leverage their power through collective action to advocate for change and improve youth-serving systems. Ywp has 40 youth advocates meeting twice a week and working on four main campaigns: increasing youth and career opportunities, expanding school-based mental health services, improving public education through youth engagement in transition planning and budget decision-making, and expanding youth voting rights.
$20,423 spent4% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $498,952.
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 2023 to 2024, from $1.0M to $1.5M (+43%).
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: 2020 57% · 2021 73% · 2022 65% · 2023 80% · 2024 64%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of THE YOUNG WOMEN'S PROJECT’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 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.
Board chair
Carla Taylor
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income rose $148k → $150k.
3 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 50% 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 YOUNG WOMEN'S 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
THE YOUNG WOMEN'S PROJECT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
52% 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 YOUNG WOMEN'S PROJECT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 51% · 2018 70% · 2019 66% · 2020 67% · 2021 43% · 2022 50% · 2023 73% — 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
38% of THE YOUNG WOMEN'S PROJECT's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
50% of THE YOUNG WOMEN'S PROJECT'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 $546k that is directly attributable, 71% of it comes from Washington, D.C. funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $548k 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.
Against its field
THE YOUNG WOMEN'S PROJECT runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 22,812 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,812 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like THE YOUNG WOMEN'S 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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE YOUNG WOMEN'S PROJECT?
- THE YOUNG WOMEN'S PROJECT (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,093,619 to it, the largest being GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($538,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 50% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE YOUNG WOMEN'S PROJECT have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $1,093,619 in grants to THE YOUNG WOMEN'S PROJECT, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE YOUNG WOMEN'S PROJECT?
- GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $538,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE YOUNG WOMEN'S PROJECT find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 10 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