Missouri · Nonprofit
Transformations Youth Group
Transformations Youth Group (Missouri) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,075,520 to it, the largest being BOREALIS PHILANTHROPY ($240,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $805k
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $223k
What Transformations Youth Group does
Mission
Transformationsisbuildingcollectiveleadershipandpoweramongtranswomenandgirlsofcolor inMissouri,KansasandNorthwest Arkansassotheycanthriveandgrowintheirpower.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
COMMUNITY & SISTERHOOD BUILDING: Transformations engages in outreach and community building work to connect with communities it serves across Missouri, Kansas and Arkansas. Transformations engages in a number of community outreach events and facilitates community building spaces to strengthen relationships and belonging among community members. The Community Advisory Board (CAB) is composed of leaders who guide organizational strategy and programming. Members hosted campaigns, storytelling projects, and leadership circles, and met quarterly to identify community priorities. CAB is key to ensuring the organizations work reflects lived experience and community needs.
$189,820 spent56% of program spendingLIBERATION CAMP: Liberation Camp centers capacity building and leadership development for the communities it serves. We bring together budding movement leaders to skill share and learn from each other. The camp serves as a pipeline to build new networks of leaders, where our community members can bond with their peers and take on mentorship roles.
$65,540 spent19% of program spendingPROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT: Transformations is committed to building leadership and professional development for the communities it serves. In 2025, Transformations leadership and participants facilitated and led multiple workshops at various conferences and events. Members of Transformations community also attended various professional development opportunities, including national conferences and networking events, where they highlighted their skills and talents to a variety of audiences.
$26,037 spent8% of program spendingMicrogrants, narrative storytelling and community advisory board
$54,985 spentof which $33,686 as grants16% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $336,382.
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.
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 $57k to $231k (+308%).
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: 2023 0% · 2024 5% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of Transformations Youth Group’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (83% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 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
Merrique Jenson
Executive Director
Board chair
Susan McClannahan
Board Chair and Secretary
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $15k → $345k.
5 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 40% 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 Transformations Youth Group’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
Transformations Youth Group has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% 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
94% 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 Transformations Youth Group.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 67% · 2021 75% · 2022 49% · 2023 22% — 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
0% of Transformations Youth Group's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 42% 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
Transformations Youth Group draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Missouri, across 8 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $425k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
Transformations Youth Group runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,734 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,734 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Transformations Youth Group
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 Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
54% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
76%
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 Transformations Youth Group: 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 Transformations Youth Group?
- Transformations Youth Group (Missouri) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,075,520 to it, the largest being BOREALIS PHILANTHROPY ($240,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Transformations Youth Group have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $1,075,520 in grants to Transformations Youth Group, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Transformations Youth Group?
- BOREALIS PHILANTHROPY is the largest funder on record, with $240,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Transformations Youth Group find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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 19 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing