Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
YOUTH EMPOWERMENT SERVICES
YOUTH EMPOWERMENT SERVICES (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $184,375 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA AND SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY ($66,458). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.6M
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $184k
- Net assets
- $-45906
What Youth Empowerment Services does
Mission
To re-engage out-of-school youth with alternative educational programs and job connections, life skills training,counseling, media and technology skills
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Education: Youth Empowerment Services (yesphilly) provides an education to youth-an accelerated high school where students complete all of the courses they need to earn a diploma from the school district of philadelphia. Beyond the core academic skills students need to for these credentials, the programs help students gain the skiils they need to succeed in college and be confident and competent lifelong learners. Classes are designed so students can work at their "right" instructionial level and get the individual attention they need. Yesphilly classes are varied, and inculde hands-on and group activities with materials that make learning fun, relevant and effective.
$1,285,472 spent81% of program spendingCounseling: yesphilly counselors help every student to make sure they develop the skills they need to succeed. Counselors work with each student individually, in groups and with their families. At yesphilly, students develop the habits and skills they will need to succeed in college and careers - responsibility, persistence, initiative, teamwork and goal-setting. Every yesphilly student sets their own goals, and creates a student development plan that gives them control over what they do, and responsibility for their own progress.
$247,268 spent16% of program spendingWhile at yesphilly, students go on college tours, learn how to apply to colleges, how to get financial aid, and get support to make sure they succeed. Community college of philadelphia has invested in welcoming our students, and making the transition to college smoother.
$62,535 spent4% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,595,275.
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 2022 to 2023, from $217k to $1.4M (+546%).
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 87% · 2018 86% · 2019 95% · 2020 90% · 2021 96% · 2022 97% · 2023 99% · 2024 99% · 2025 97%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of YOUTH EMPOWERMENT SERVICES’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 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
Gary Paprocki
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $70k → $74.
2 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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 EMPOWERMENT SERVICES’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 EMPOWERMENT SERVICES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
55% 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 EMPOWERMENT SERVICES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 94% · 2018 100% · 2019 78% · 2020 99% · 2021 99% · 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.
How long its funders stay
17% of YOUTH EMPOWERMENT SERVICES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 30% 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
93% of YOUTH EMPOWERMENT SERVICES's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $30k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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 EMPOWERMENT SERVICES's revenue grew 52% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like YOUTH EMPOWERMENT SERVICES
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for YOUTH EMPOWERMENT SERVICES: 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 EMPOWERMENT SERVICES?
- YOUTH EMPOWERMENT SERVICES (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $184,375 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA AND SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY ($66,458). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does YOUTH EMPOWERMENT SERVICES have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $184,375 in grants to YOUTH EMPOWERMENT SERVICES, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of YOUTH EMPOWERMENT SERVICES?
- UNITED WAY OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA AND SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY is the largest funder on record, with $66,458 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like YOUTH EMPOWERMENT SERVICES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 10 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