California · Nonprofit
VELA YOUTH FUND INC
VELA YOUTH FUND INC (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $95,034 to it, the largest being ANDERSON CHILDRENS FOUNDATION ($69,370). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2026
- $20k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $95k
- Net assets
- $36k
What Vela Youth Fund Inc does
Mission
VELA Youth Fund's primary exempt purpose is to assist in the Spiritual, Cultural, Social and Academic Development of Black Youth. We do not have a "hands on" program. We partner with organizations who work with children by providing financial, research, curriculum, and other development resources. We advocate for black and brown children in Africa, the Caribbean, and the United States of America. We assist in youth development via the preparation and maintenance of our patented "Black Youth Development Program or BYD" curriculum. We intially placed it on the Canvas LMS and now on a system of PDF files, to be accessed Free of Charge by user organizations working to help Black and Brown Youth.
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Via our African Field Representatives, VELA provided $36,000 for food, clothing, and education, toward supporting over 1,000 poor children in Africa: $18,000 in South Africa serving approximately 500 poor children, $18,000 in Cameroon serving approximately 500 poor children. We also provide Honorariums to those who teach and tutor African Youth, and advocate for community development in Africa. Also, VELA donated $8,000 to international non-profits serving Black Children: $2,000 to the Save the Children Foundation, $2,000 to the United Negro College Fund, and $4,000 to UNICEF, the United Nations Children's Fund. These humanitarian organization improve and sustain many children's lives in Africa.
$2,000 spentof which $44,000 as grants36% of program spendingVELA provided a total of $6,000 to Churches and 501c3 Non-profit Partners who are providing critically needed Youth Development Services to over 500 children in the USA. The primary organizations supported were Family Health Support Network (BRAAF division) in Palm Springs and Palm Desert CA, PREP Learning Centers in Moreno Valley, Palm Springs, Palm Desert, and Indio CA, First Baptist Church of Indio, and the Social Lites Inc. in San Bernardino CA.
$500 spentof which $6,000 as grants9% of program spendingVELA spent $3,000 (part of a 6 year investment of $50,000) toward our patented Black Youth Development Program. Primary cost are for Curriculum Preparation, Previous Application on the Canvas Learning System, with License fees for 500 computer access spaces, and now currently for development and application of our own patented PDF System for delivery of the BYD Curriculum. These features facilitate free distribution of the BYD program to schools, churches and non-profits who serve Black and Brown Youth.
$3,000 spentof which $3,000 as grants55% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $5,500.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2025 to 2026, from $79k to $36k (−55%).
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.
100% of VELA YOUTH FUND INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Earl Mitchell
Chairman and Treasurer
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income rose $20k → $40k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 VELA YOUTH FUND INC’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
VELA YOUTH FUND INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 73% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
27% 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 VELA YOUTH FUND INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 50% · 2021 84% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
84% of VELA YOUTH FUND INC's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $164 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
VELA YOUTH FUND INC's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 43 international nonprofits under $100k, FY2026
Organizations like VELA YOUTH FUND INC
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In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
91%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for VELA YOUTH FUND 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 VELA YOUTH FUND INC?
- VELA YOUTH FUND INC (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $95,034 to it, the largest being ANDERSON CHILDRENS FOUNDATION ($69,370). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does VELA YOUTH FUND INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $95,034 in grants to VELA YOUTH FUND INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VELA YOUTH FUND INC?
- ANDERSON CHILDRENS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $69,370 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VELA YOUTH FUND INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 FY2026 (financials across 2022–2026), and the filings of 4 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