Missouri · Nonprofit
YOUTH AMBASSADORS INC
YOUTH AMBASSADORS INC (Missouri) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,307,804 to it, the largest being EWING MARION KAUFFMAN FOUNDATION ($480,000). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $834k
- Funders on record
- 39
- Grants received
- $2.3M
- Net assets
- $377k
What Youth Ambassadors Inc does
Mission
Youth Ambassadors is an educational program designed to empower underserved teenage youth with important life skills, soft job skills, creative expression, and adult mentors, helping them become future community leaders willing and able to work for positive change. Youth Ambassadors' vision is to help youth reach their fullest potential through creative and innovative programming.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Youth Ambassadors empowers underserved teens, ages 14-18 through social emotional learning, trauma healing, violence prevention, and skill training. Youth Ambassadors served 432 youth in 2024 through summer and academic year programming. Youth Ambassadors teaches self-efficacy through programs during non-school hours when youth are most susceptible to negative influences. Through creative programming, Ambassadors gain the necessary tools needed to continue their education and/or enter the job market successfully. Through specialized training courses, Ambassadors learn banking skills, and fiscal responsibility, workplace parameters, and personal accountability. Students strengthen their skills through training courses such as Health & Wellness, Youth Entrepreneurship, Community Development, Life & Job Skills, Creative Expression.
$449,060 spentof which $100 as grants$13,296 earned by the program100% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $449,060.
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 2023 to 2024, from $312k to $830k (+166%).
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 0% · 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 24% · 2021 22% · 2022 19% · 2023 29% · 2024 30%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of YOUTH AMBASSADORS INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 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
Monique Johnston PhD
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $133k → $269k.
7 of 39 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 YOUTH AMBASSADORS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 39 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 AMBASSADORS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
44% 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 AMBASSADORS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 26% · 2018 22% · 2019 17% · 2020 20% · 2021 22% · 2022 36% · 2023 37% — 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
52% of YOUTH AMBASSADORS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 49% 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
72% of YOUTH AMBASSADORS INC's grant income comes from Missouri funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $262k 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
YOUTH AMBASSADORS INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 17,953 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,953 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like YOUTH AMBASSADORS 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 Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
60% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
77%
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 AMBASSADORS INC?
- YOUTH AMBASSADORS INC (Missouri) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,307,804 to it, the largest being EWING MARION KAUFFMAN FOUNDATION ($480,000). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does YOUTH AMBASSADORS INC have?
- IRS filings report 39 organizations giving $2,307,804 in grants to YOUTH AMBASSADORS INC, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of YOUTH AMBASSADORS INC?
- EWING MARION KAUFFMAN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $480,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like YOUTH AMBASSADORS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 39 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