Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
YAAY ME INC
YAAY ME INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $701,853 to it, the largest being GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($283,853). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.7M
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $702k
- Net assets
- $618k
What Yaay Me Inc does
Mission
Provide social development and job training to youth, their families, and those who serve them. We will achieve this through our principles (self & community) self-education, character education, and career exploration.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Credible mentors program provides young adults with social development, job readiness training, and career exploration.
$372,965 spent$606,434 earned by the program34% of program spendingDyrs program provides inner city youth, young adults, and their families with social development, job readiness training, and career exploration.
$478,491 spent$599,762 earned by the program43% of program spendingOnestep program is a continuing initiative that empowers justice-involved individuals in prince georges county, maryland through comprehensive reentry mentorship. Utilizing a restorative justice approach, the program offers traditional, group, and virtual mentoring to support individuals as they transition back into their communities. By providing personalized guidance and resource navigation, onestep helps participants overcome barriers to successful reintegration while contributing to broader community well-being. Funding will continue to support essential personnel, training, and operational costs to sustain and expand program impact.
$249,235 spent$194,692 earned by the program23% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,100,692. The per-program figures do not add up to the total the return states; both are shown as filed.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2019 to 2020, from $18k to $714k (+3843%).
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: 2022 61% · 2023 33% · 2024 58% · 2025 51%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
63% of YAAY ME INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (82% 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.
Chief executive
Warees A Majeed
Executive director
Board chair
Sadiq Ali
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $15k → $47k.
1 of 6 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 YAAY ME 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
YAAY ME INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
100% 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 YAAY ME INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 60% · 2021 100% · 2022 83% · 2023 68% — 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
YAAY ME INC draws 86% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $284k 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
YAAY ME INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,064 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,064 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like YAAY ME 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 Washington, D.C.
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
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for YAAY ME 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 YAAY ME INC?
- YAAY ME INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $701,853 to it, the largest being GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($283,853). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does YAAY ME INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $701,853 in grants to YAAY ME INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of YAAY ME INC?
- GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $283,853 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like YAAY ME INC 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 FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 6 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