Connecticut · Nonprofit
World Wide Youth Networks
World Wide Youth Networks (Connecticut) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $185,500 to it, the largest being THE PERRIN FAMILY FOUNDATION ($90,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $141k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $186k
- Net assets
- $-44090
What World Wide Youth Networks does
Mission
WWYN is a 501c3 non-profit that connects youth organizations and institutions to promote digital equity and citizenship through the digital arts and sciences. We collaborate with thought leaders in youth voice digital equity and digital inclusion. We base our network on our 4 Pillars of Empowerment which help youth achieve success and advocate for a more diverse equitable and inclusive digital world. Our 4 Pillars include Collaboration Community Building Youth Voice Critical Consciousness & Youth Development, and Digital Equity & Representation
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
ParaDYM CTE Academy
$184,810 spentof which $140,720 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $184,810.
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.
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 World Wide Youth Networks’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. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Duane Pierre
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $50k → $86k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 World Wide Youth Networks’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
World Wide Youth Networks leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 70% · 2023 64% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of World Wide Youth Networks's grant income comes from Connecticut funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $25k 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
World Wide Youth Networks has grown faster than three-quarters of the 5,688 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,688 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like World Wide Youth Networks
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 Connecticut
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for World Wide Youth Networks: 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 World Wide Youth Networks?
- World Wide Youth Networks (Connecticut) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $185,500 to it, the largest being THE PERRIN FAMILY FOUNDATION ($90,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does World Wide Youth Networks have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $185,500 in grants to World Wide Youth Networks, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of World Wide Youth Networks?
- THE PERRIN FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $90,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like World Wide Youth Networks find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. 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 2022–2024), 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