Ohio · Nonprofit
YOUTH AT THE CENTER
YOUTH AT THE CENTER (Ohio) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $557,117 to it, the largest being United Way of Greater Cincinnati ($181,200). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $547k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $557k
- Net assets
- $463k
What Youth at the Center does
Mission
Youth Leadership Development
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
We launched 2 new youth employment programs for young people. Earn As You Learn, an entrepreneurship program, and Hopeful Empowered Youth Fellowship program, a program designed for young people ages 14-24, to advance a regional collective impact strategy improving youth mental health outcomes.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
Young, Not Silent youth-led team met to advance youth priorities. We had 37 students participate in Young, Not Silent programming throughout the year with a focus on violence prevention efforts in Cincinnati and advocating for issues that young people are passionate about.
$62,778 spent16% of program spendingYALA (Youth Antiracist Leadership Academy) is a program where young people better understand themselves and the world around them by exploring who they are and how they lead. Through examining the history of racism and movements for change, participants identify ways to be a leader for justice and liberation. We had 20 participants in our YALA program.
$50,732 spent13% of program spendingEarn As You Learn Youth Entrepreneurship Employment Program - We had 8 students complete the spring cohort and 20 students complete the summer cohort of Earn As You Learn, where they learned about being an entrepreneur and starting their own business. Participants gained skills in business plans, market research, brand identity, marketing, and financial literacy.
$137,744 spent36% of program spendingHEY! Fellowship - Youth Employment Program
$101,414 spent26% of program spendingTraining for engaging youth/adult allies
$34,891 spent9% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $387,559.
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 2023 to 2024, from $326k to $463k (+42%).
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: 2019 0% · 2020 6% · 2021 4% · 2022 37% · 2023 0% · 2024 18%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of YOUTH AT THE CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (83% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Board chair
Eileen Cooper Reed
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $25k → $176k.
1 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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 AT THE CENTER’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
YOUTH AT THE CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
93% 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 AT THE CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 53% · 2021 54% · 2022 55% · 2023 34% — 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
95% of YOUTH AT THE CENTER's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $25k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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 AT THE CENTER runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters 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 YOUTH AT THE CENTER
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 Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for YOUTH AT THE CENTER: 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 YOUTH AT THE CENTER?
- YOUTH AT THE CENTER (Ohio) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $557,117 to it, the largest being United Way of Greater Cincinnati ($181,200). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does YOUTH AT THE CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $557,117 in grants to YOUTH AT THE CENTER, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of YOUTH AT THE CENTER?
- United Way of Greater Cincinnati is the largest funder on record, with $181,200 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like YOUTH AT THE CENTER find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 7 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