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YOUTH ADVANTAGE INC

YOUTH ADVANTAGE INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $497,935 to it, the largest being Fred C and Katherine B Andersen Foundation ($300,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$211k
Funders on record
18
Grants received
$498k
Net assets
$158k
12/18 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 41%
01What it does

What Youth Advantage Inc does

Mission

To provide services and activities to local low-income youth.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Youth advantage promotes healthy mental, emotional, and physical wellness in low income youth by providing them with access to extracurricular activities in our community. Youth advantage continues to provide scholarships and equipment to support children in their pursuit of their passions thus improving their chances of future success as well as support the operating costs of our office location which houses our brave bold girls group.

  2. Youth advantage promotes healthy mental, emotional, and physical wellness in low income youth by providing them with access to extracurricular activities in our community. Youth advantage continues to provide scholarshipps and equipment to support children in their pursuit of their passions thus improving their chances of future success as well as support the operating costs of our office location which houses our brave bold girls group.

    $192,498 spentof which $46,209 as grants
    100% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $192,498.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($148k) Expenses 100 ($132k) Net assets 100 ($105k)2018 Revenue 102 ($151k) Expenses 98 ($130k) Net assets 120 ($126k)2019 Revenue 109 ($162k) Expenses 116 ($153k) Net assets 129 ($135k)2020 Revenue 108 ($160k) Expenses 127 ($168k) Net assets 122 ($127k)2021 Revenue 114 ($169k) Expenses 141 ($186k) Net assets 105 ($110k)2022 Revenue 134 ($199k) Expenses 137 ($181k) Net assets 122 ($128k)2023 Revenue 126 ($187k) Expenses 160 ($211k) Net assets 99 ($104k)2024 Revenue 190 ($282k) Expenses 169 ($222k) Net assets 160 ($168k)2025 Revenue 143 ($211k) Expenses 168 ($221k) Net assets 151 ($158k)
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Revenue (143)Expenses (168)Net assets (151)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 2023 to 2024, from $112k to $172k (+54%).

$110k
$131k
$143k
$133k
$124k
$139k
$112k
$172k
$162k
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

64% of YOUTH ADVANTAGE INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (18% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 16,168 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$16k
’17
$21k
’18
$9k
’19
−$7k
’20
−$17k
’21
$18k
’22
−$24k
’23
$60k
’24
−$10k
’25
8.8
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.

Board chair

Sarah Peterson

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed7778887910
Joined·+1+2+4+0+1+4+2+1
No longer listed·12301500
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $17k → $77k.

4 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 19% 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 YOUTH ADVANTAGE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 17 of 18 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

YOUTH ADVANTAGE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

31% 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 YOUTH ADVANTAGE INC.

60%
largest funder
82%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 49% · 2018 66% · 2019 54% · 2020 59% · 2021 62% · 2022 54% · 2023 58% — 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.

How long its funders stay

54% of YOUTH ADVANTAGE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

96% of YOUTH ADVANTAGE INC's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.

MT
MN
NC
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Minnesota out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $92k 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

YOUTH ADVANTAGE INC is better cushioned than half of the 10,453 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−5% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve8.8mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)5% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,453 recreation & sports nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like YOUTH ADVANTAGE 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 Minnesota

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

87% of spending goes to programs.

Program 87%Management 9%Fundraising 4%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

97%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds YOUTH ADVANTAGE INC?
YOUTH ADVANTAGE INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $497,935 to it, the largest being Fred C and Katherine B Andersen Foundation ($300,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does YOUTH ADVANTAGE INC have?
IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $497,935 in grants to YOUTH ADVANTAGE INC, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of YOUTH ADVANTAGE INC?
Fred C and Katherine B Andersen Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $300,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like YOUTH ADVANTAGE INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 18 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