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Youth Design Center Inc

Youth Design Center Inc (New York) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,291,416 to it, the largest being COMIC RELIEF INC DBA COMIC RELIEF US ($1,050,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$475k
Funders on record
34
Grants received
$3.3M
Net assets
$988k
16/34 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Youth Design Center Inc does

Mission

The mission is to close the racial wealth gap by training the next generation of STEAM professionals.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. The mission is to close the racial wealth gap by training the next generation of STEAM professionals.

    $1,080,962 spent$51,153 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,080,962.

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 ($257k) Expenses 100 ($163k) Net assets 100 ($57k)2018 Revenue 193 ($496k) Expenses 279 ($454k) Net assets 174 ($99k)2019 Revenue 172 ($443k) Expenses 263 ($428k) Net assets 194 ($110k)2020 Revenue 485 ($1.2M) Expenses 315 ($512k) Net assets 1915 ($1.1M)2021 Revenue 399 ($1.0M) Expenses 461 ($749k) Net assets 2405 ($1.4M)2022 Revenue 250 ($643k) Expenses 671 ($1.1M) Net assets 1573 ($892k)2023 Revenue 353 ($909k) Expenses 728 ($1.2M) Net assets 1087 ($616k)2024 Revenue 185 ($475k) Expenses 170 ($277k) Net assets 1743 ($988k)
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Revenue (185)Expenses (170)Net assets (1743)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 2019 to 2020, from $112k to $1.1M (+917%).

$57k
$99k
$112k
$1.1M
$1.4M
$1.6M
$917k
$1.2M
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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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 100% · 2020 1% · 2021 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

131% of Youth Design Center Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (55% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,349 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$95k
’17
$42k
’18
$14k
’19
$735k
’20
$278k
’21
−$448k
’22
−$275k
’23
$199k
’24
18
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.

Chief executive

Quardean Lewis Allen

Executive Director

Board chair

Rasmia Kirmani

Chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed2111066111111
Joined··+0+2+0+6+0+0
No longer listed··160100
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $96k → $677k.

8 of 34 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 30% 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 Design Center Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 34 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 Design Center Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 32% 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

72% 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 Design Center Inc.

32%
largest funder
51%
top three
~7
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 63% · 2019 35% · 2020 33% · 2021 37% · 2022 43% · 2023 52% — 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

29% of Youth Design Center Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% give in more than one year at all.

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

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

85% of Youth Design Center Inc's grant income comes from New York funders.

IL
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
VA
DE

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

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’20
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’22
’23
New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $993k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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 Design Center Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,278 employment nonprofits its size.

Operating margin42% · top quartile
Months of reserve17.9mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)9% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,278 employment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like Youth Design Center 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 New York

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

95% of spending goes to programs.

Program 95%Management 5%Fundraising 0%

Governance

6
board members
83%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

99%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NY

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Questions and answers

Who funds Youth Design Center Inc?
Youth Design Center Inc (New York) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,291,416 to it, the largest being COMIC RELIEF INC DBA COMIC RELIEF US ($1,050,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Youth Design Center Inc have?
IRS filings report 34 organizations giving $3,291,416 in grants to Youth Design Center Inc, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Youth Design Center Inc?
COMIC RELIEF INC DBA COMIC RELIEF US is the largest funder on record, with $1,050,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Youth Design Center Inc find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 34 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