New York · Nonprofit
YOUNG EXCELLENCE SOCIETY INC
YOUNG EXCELLENCE SOCIETY INC (New York) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,500 to it, the largest being DAY CARE COUNCIL OF NEW YORK INC ($9,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $547k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $13k
- Net assets
- $-532200
What Young Excellence Society Inc does
Mission
Young Excellence Society is a nonprofit organization that seeks to improve the quality of life among low-income families, adults, and youth in the five boroughs of New York Citys communities. Young Excellence Societys mission is devoted to meeting the educational and developmental needs of children and adolescents, while also fostering achieveme
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Young Excellence Society Inc. provideS a broad range of activities and programs that are developed to improve the social, emotional, and academic competencies of participating youth in the areas of academic literacy and enrichment in math English, and Science, structured recreational activity, tutoring and test preparation, referral services, advisement/counseling, mentoring, foreign language, youth leadership development, communication, college prep, arts and unique programs such as Promises of Pregnancy Prevention, Anti Generation Genocide, Wealth my Worth, and Finding Other Options Daily FOOD.
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990.
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 2021 to 2022, from $112k to $4k (−97%).
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 50% · 2023 83% · 2024 71%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
86% of YOUNG EXCELLENCE SOCIETY INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (83% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 6 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
Janine Smalls
Executive director
Board chair
Geraldine Cooper
Chair of the board
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $10k → $2k.
From the IRS filings of YOUNG EXCELLENCE SOCIETY 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
YOUNG EXCELLENCE SOCIETY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 76% 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
76% 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 YOUNG EXCELLENCE SOCIETY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2023 71% — 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
76% of YOUNG EXCELLENCE SOCIETY INC's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
YOUNG EXCELLENCE SOCIETY INC runs a healthier operating margin than half 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 YOUNG EXCELLENCE SOCIETY 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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
46% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
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 YOUNG EXCELLENCE SOCIETY 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 YOUNG EXCELLENCE SOCIETY INC?
- YOUNG EXCELLENCE SOCIETY INC (New York) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,500 to it, the largest being DAY CARE COUNCIL OF NEW YORK INC ($9,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does YOUNG EXCELLENCE SOCIETY INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $12,500 in grants to YOUNG EXCELLENCE SOCIETY INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of YOUNG EXCELLENCE SOCIETY INC?
- DAY CARE COUNCIL OF NEW YORK INC is the largest funder on record, with $9,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like YOUNG EXCELLENCE SOCIETY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 2019–2024), and the filings of 3 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