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YOUNG WOMEN LEAD INC

YOUNG WOMEN LEAD INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $28,169 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($9,996). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 84% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$162k
Funders on record
6
Grants received
$28k
Net assets
$185k
2/6 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 4%
01What it does

What Young Women Lead Inc does

Mission

Young women lead provides high school girls with a meaningful experience designed to help them discover their innate qualities and strengths and to challenge them to reach higher levels of personal growth and development.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Young women lead is a daylong leadership conference for high school girls focusing on leadership, education, and personal development. The purpose of the conference is to empower high school girls to embrace their strengths and to reach their full potential. The event features nationally recognized women who share their own insights on real life issues and how to overcone them to achieve successful and meaningful careers. The conference also provides an opportunity for the teens to connect to and learn from local female business leaders. Breakouts include, but are not limited to career panel discussions, college panel, visioning and goal setting, self-defense, healthy dietary choices, emotional intelligence, body confidence, social media, physical workouts, stem related pathways, and personal branding, etc. Ywl further developed evidence-based curriculum for ywl clubs and established ywl clubs in high schools in ky, in, il, oh, mi, tx, ca, nc, and fl.

    $164,655 spent
    100% of program spending
  2. Other program services, not described on the e-filed return.

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $164,655.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($206k) Expenses 100 ($220k) Net assets 100 ($55k)2019 Revenue 118 ($243k) Expenses 52 ($115k) Net assets 334 ($183k)2020 Revenue 56 ($115k) Expenses 81 ($179k) Net assets 224 ($122k)2021 Revenue 70 ($144k) Expenses 57 ($125k) Net assets 259 ($142k)2022 Revenue 103 ($211k) Expenses 79 ($174k) Net assets 327 ($179k)2023 Revenue 99 ($205k) Expenses 91 ($200k) Net assets 336 ($184k)2024 Revenue 79 ($162k) Expenses 73 ($161k) Net assets 337 ($185k)
2018201920202021202220232024
Revenue (79)Expenses (73)Net assets (337)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $55k to $183k (+234%).

$55k
$183k
$122k
$142k
$179k
$184k
$185k
2018201920202021202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

96% of YOUNG WOMEN LEAD INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (83% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 6,387 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

−$14k
’18
$128k
’19
−$64k
’20
$19k
’21
$37k
’22
$5k
’23
$553
’24
14
months of
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.

2018201920202021202220232024
Listed7101010888
Joined·+5+0+0+0+1+1
No longer listed·200211
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $5k → $40.

4 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 84% 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 WOMEN LEAD 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 WOMEN LEAD INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

84% 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 WOMEN LEAD INC.

35%
largest funder
83%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 88% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.

“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

84% of YOUNG WOMEN LEAD INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $5k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Kentucky, across 2 states.

NC
TX

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $24k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

YOUNG WOMEN LEAD INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 5,688 youth development nonprofits its size.

Operating margin0% · below the median
Months of reserve13.6mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−4% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,688 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like YOUNG WOMEN LEAD INC

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

89% of spending goes to programs.

Program 89%Management 11%Fundraising 0%

Governance

8
board members
75%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

40%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

KY

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Questions and answers

Who funds YOUNG WOMEN LEAD INC?
YOUNG WOMEN LEAD INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $28,169 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($9,996). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 84% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does YOUNG WOMEN LEAD INC have?
IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $28,169 in grants to YOUNG WOMEN LEAD INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of YOUNG WOMEN LEAD INC?
AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $9,996 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like YOUNG WOMEN LEAD INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kentucky. 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 2018–2024), 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