Georgia · Nonprofit
YOUTH EMPOWERMENT THROUGH LEARNING LEADING AND SERVING INC
YOUTH EMPOWERMENT THROUGH LEARNING LEADING AND SERVING INC (Georgia) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,131,378 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREATER ATLANTA INC ($355,900). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.4M
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $746k
What Youth Empowerment Through Learning Leading and Serving Inc does
Mission
The organization empowers youth to rise as active, healthy, and productive servant-leaders within thier communities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The yells afterschool program provided positive youth development, including leadership, art, recreation, character building, service learning, and academic support for 49 elementary youth daily. The yells model engages the entire family through parent volunteering and participation in educational and community-building workshops. Our work fills learning gaps, bolsters social-emotional development, supports mental health, prepares youth for career and life, and builds connections and social capital for families. Eighty-four percent (41/49) of yells afterschool program youth with data improved by one letter grade or more or maintained an a or b in math or language arts in 2024-2025. Additionally, 100% (49/49) were promoted on grade level. Parents noticed improvements in their children's academic success as well, with 85% reporting that yells is helping their child complete and turn in homework on time. Youth also demonstrated growth in self-esteem and confidence, with 85% of yells afterschool program youth reporting that they feel better about themselves because of the yells program. Furthermore, youth developed social emotional skills, with 89% saying that yells has helped them…
$195,007 spent17% of program spendingYells marked its first program expansion in the spring of 2024, bringing its proven place-based and asset-driven model to a new community through the launch of the fair oaks yells youth program, offering the first-ever afterschool program at the school. Yells grew this pilot of 9 youth to serve 46 students daily in the 2024-2025 school year. Our strong partnership with the school and teachers, allowed us to provide targeted academic interventions that resulted in 95% of our students being promoted on grade level and 85% improving by a letter grade or maintaining an a or b in math or english language arts. We saw incredible gains as youth were able to discover their skills and grow their leadership as they learned and applied skills to uplift their neighborhood. Youth developed project management skills, practiced projection and positive body language, wrote proposal letters, learned to network, and more as they led community outreach projects including spreading joy through giving handmade paper flowers out in their neighborhood, leading a free lemonade stand to unite neighbors, and organizing a family festival. Once shy students blossomed into confident community leaders. Youth…
$321,399 spent28% of program spendingIn 2024-2025, the yells community action caf equipped 18 teens with real- world business and leadership skills as they managed their caf as a hub for community-wide education, engagement, and empowerment. Yells teens have become career-ready, developing resumes and applying business and life skills as they engaged neighbors in youth-led events and community- building. In 2024-2025 yells teens networked with local elected officials and community partners about the priorities for their community during a "community caravan" event, hosted and asked thoughtful questions during a police town hall, led a trunk or treat family event, and planned a "movies under the stars" outdoor movie night for the community. The youth's projects strengthen community bonds, foster a sense of neighborhood pride, and lead to long-term change as youth and their families believe in their ability to overcome challenges, develop support networks, achieve success in school, graduate ready for college and career, open the door to economic mobility, and continue to reinvest in their community. Through a partnership with cobbworks, we provided 11 teens and 8 college students with authentic job training through a…
$169,651 spent15% of program spendingYells offered a 45 hour/week, fully-day yells summer camp for elementary school youth. Youth enjoyed an engaging and educational summer with daily affirmations, steam activities, book clubs, sports, team challenges, and choice clubs. We kept youth moving and learning through fieldtrips to adventure air, barnes & noble, and a skating rink. Yells parents learned strategies for promoting literacy at home through our "books and breakfast" workshops for youth and parents hosted each morning before summer camp. Teens also enjoyed an action-packed summer with fieldtips, leadership workshops, and paid work experience as junior staff in the youth program. Expenses noted in this category included in-kind contributions used to support all yells programs and impact.
$479,045 spent41% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,165,102.
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 $415k to $573k (+38%).
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 54% · 2018 60% · 2019 57% · 2021 79% · 2022 61% · 2023 33% · 2024 27% · 2025 17%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of YOUTH EMPOWERMENT THROUGH LEARNING LEADING AND SERVING INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Board chair
Ana Bridget Reyes
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $25k → $463k.
6 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 45% 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 THROUGH LEARNING LEADING AND SERVING INC’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 THROUGH LEARNING LEADING AND SERVING INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
96% 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 THROUGH LEARNING LEADING AND SERVING INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 63% · 2018 56% · 2019 62% · 2020 46% · 2021 28% · 2022 25% · 2023 54% — 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
45% of YOUTH EMPOWERMENT THROUGH LEARNING LEADING AND SERVING INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 73% 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
100% of YOUTH EMPOWERMENT THROUGH LEARNING LEADING AND SERVING INC's grant income comes from Georgia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $513k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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 THROUGH LEARNING LEADING AND SERVING INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,064 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,064 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like YOUTH EMPOWERMENT THROUGH LEARNING LEADING AND SERVING 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 Georgia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds YOUTH EMPOWERMENT THROUGH LEARNING LEADING AND SERVING INC?
- YOUTH EMPOWERMENT THROUGH LEARNING LEADING AND SERVING INC (Georgia) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,131,378 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREATER ATLANTA INC ($355,900). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does YOUTH EMPOWERMENT THROUGH LEARNING LEADING AND SERVING INC have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $1,131,378 in grants to YOUTH EMPOWERMENT THROUGH LEARNING LEADING AND SERVING INC, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of YOUTH EMPOWERMENT THROUGH LEARNING LEADING AND SERVING INC?
- UNITED WAY OF GREATER ATLANTA INC is the largest funder on record, with $355,900 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like YOUTH EMPOWERMENT THROUGH LEARNING LEADING AND SERVING INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. 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 15 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