Colorado · Nonprofit
YEAR ONE INC
YEAR ONE INC (Colorado) receives grants from 56 organizations whose IRS filings report $19,222,010 to it, the largest being COLORADO YOUTH CORPS ASSOCIATION ($13,635,166). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.7M
- Funders on record
- 56
- Grants received
- $19M
- Net assets
- $2.7M
What Year One Inc does
Mission
The mission of mile high youth corps is to help youth make a difference in themselves and their community through meaningful service opportunities and educational experiences.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Year one, inc. Dba mile high youth corps (the organization) was founded under the laws of the state of colorado in 1992. The organization is a nonprofit corporation whose mission is to help youth make a difference in themselves and their community through meaningful service opportunities and educational experiences. The organization serves 18-24 year-olds in one of three career pathways: land conservation, clean energy, and construction. By integrating paid work experience on community projects with career exploration, education, and life skills training, the organization helps youth develop the skills they need to succeed in the classroom, the workforce, and everyday life. Through hands-on service, youth gain the knowledge, skills, and motivation they need to make positive changes in their own lives, their community, and the environment. The organization operates in 24 counties across the southern front range and the denver metro area. The youth that the organization serves are referred to as corpsmembers. The organization is supported primarily by contract revenue, contributions, and government grants.
$4,867,838 spentof which $16,130 as grants$2,100,605 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $4,867,838.
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 2019 to 2020, from $2.6M to $3.0M (+15%).
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: 2017 56% · 2018 36% · 2019 32% · 2020 37% · 2021 37% · 2022 37% · 2023 50% · 2024 54% · 2025 40%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
63% of YEAR ONE 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. 3 of the last 9 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
Kia Abdool
CEO
Board chair
Michael Smith
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 21 funders, grant income rose $1.2M → $3.6M.
9 of 56 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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 YEAR ONE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 56 funders by total. 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
YEAR ONE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
93% 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 YEAR ONE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 86% · 2018 70% · 2019 65% · 2020 46% · 2021 47% · 2022 75% · 2023 87% — broadly stable.
“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
53% of YEAR ONE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
84% of YEAR ONE INC's grant income comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
YEAR ONE INC's funding base is broadening — from 7 funders to 21 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,152 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding YEAR ONE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $6.7M on record.
- Department of Labor$3.3M
- Department of Agriculture$3.0M
- Department of the Interior$450k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like YEAR ONE 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 Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
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 YEAR ONE 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 YEAR ONE INC?
- YEAR ONE INC (Colorado) receives grants from 56 organizations whose IRS filings report $19,222,010 to it, the largest being COLORADO YOUTH CORPS ASSOCIATION ($13,635,166). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does YEAR ONE INC have?
- IRS filings report 56 organizations giving $19,222,010 in grants to YEAR ONE INC, 34 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of YEAR ONE INC?
- COLORADO YOUTH CORPS ASSOCIATION is the largest funder on record, with $13,635,166 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like YEAR ONE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 56 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