California · Nonprofit
Young Scholars For Academic Empowerment dba TruEvolution Inc
Young Scholars For Academic Empowerment dba TruEvolution Inc (California) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,856,189 to it, the largest being ENTERPRISE COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC ($834,840). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $5.3M
- Funders on record
- 22
- Grants received
- $3.9M
- Net assets
- $19M
What Young Scholars For Academic Empowerment dba TruEvolution Inc does
Mission
The Corporation's specific purpose is to fight for health equity and racial justice to advance the quality of life and human dignity of LGBTQ+ people.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
TruEvolution offers emergency supportive housing for clients displaced within the Riverside County Jurisdiction, both through motel placement, and starting in 2023, at TruEvolutions housing campus, Project Legacy, which includes access to wrap around services provided by TruEvolution. At the Project Legacy campus, identified at risk college students are also able to be housed through a partnership with local colleges. At the moment, TruEvolutions contracted Motel vendor is located in the City of Riverside.
$1,893,971 spent40% of program spendingHealthcare services: Pre-exposure prophylaxis, or prep, is an HIV prevention method in which young scholars for academic empowerment LGBTQ+ people. Healthcare services people who don't have HIV take an antiviral medication daily to reduce their risk of contracting HIV if they are exposed to the virus. Truevolution's rapid-start prep service provides a safe environment and convenient approach to inform readiness for prep, receive consultation housing from a licensed medical provider, same day fulfillment of script, and get connected to mental health and other social services to feasibly access and maintain prep adherence. See Schedule O for further details.
$1,657,366 spent$1,081,053 earned by the program35% of program spendingOther Programs: Truevolution leverages their relationships grown from the housing and healthcare services programs to provide support and advocacy through a variety of community health programs such as vaccine equity, COVID 19 programs, and sponsorship and advocacy within the LGTBQ+ community. During the tax year over 8,000 people were reached by the outreach program.
$1,213,904 spent25% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,765,241.
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 2021 to 2022, from $9.2M to $20M (+122%).
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: 2018 74% · 2019 42% · 2020 80% · 2021 21% · 2022 83% · 2023 3% · 2024 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
76% of Young Scholars For Academic Empowerment dba TruEvolution 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. 1 of the last 7 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
Gabriel Maldonado
CEO
Board chair
Dr Brandon Brown
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 7 funders, grant income rose $75k → $441k.
3 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 Young Scholars For Academic Empowerment dba TruEvolution 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 Scholars For Academic Empowerment dba TruEvolution Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
61% 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 Scholars For Academic Empowerment dba TruEvolution Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 76% · 2019 77% · 2020 85% · 2021 43% · 2022 33% · 2023 37% — 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.
How long its funders stay
11% of Young Scholars For Academic Empowerment dba TruEvolution Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
60% of Young Scholars For Academic Empowerment dba TruEvolution 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. $314k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
Young Scholars For Academic Empowerment dba TruEvolution Inc has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,928 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,928 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding Young Scholars For Academic Empowerment dba TruEvolution Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $150k on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$150k
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 Young Scholars For Academic Empowerment dba TruEvolution 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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
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 Young Scholars For Academic Empowerment dba TruEvolution 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 Scholars For Academic Empowerment dba TruEvolution Inc?
- Young Scholars For Academic Empowerment dba TruEvolution Inc (California) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,856,189 to it, the largest being ENTERPRISE COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC ($834,840). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Young Scholars For Academic Empowerment dba TruEvolution Inc have?
- IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $3,856,189 in grants to Young Scholars For Academic Empowerment dba TruEvolution Inc, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Young Scholars For Academic Empowerment dba TruEvolution Inc?
- ENTERPRISE COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC is the largest funder on record, with $834,840 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Young Scholars For Academic Empowerment dba TruEvolution 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 22 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