Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
YOUTH ENTREPRENEUR INSTITUTE
YOUTH ENTREPRENEUR INSTITUTE (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $785,452 to it, the largest being ARCH DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ($266,211). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $584k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $785k
- Net assets
- $-62958
What Youth Entrepreneur Institute does
Mission
Youth Entrepreneur Institute YEI empowers youth from underserved communities through entrepreneurship arts STEAM education and real-world business experiences that develop creativity leadership financial capability technical skills and college and career readiness.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
HIGH SCHOOL ENTREPRENEURSHIP ARTS & STEAM PROGRAMS: YEI provided year-round and summer entrepreneurship arts STEAM workforce development and career-readiness programming for high school youth. Students participated in hands-on instruction in areas such as product development digital and visual arts apparel design cosmetic and maker-based production financial literacy business development branding marketing and sales. Youth developed and operated businesses and social-enterprise projects created marketable products participated in vending and pop-up opportunities engaged with teaching artists and industry professionals and gained practical workplace and entrepreneurial experience. Programming included Smart Hustle Artpreneur Learn24 school-year and summer activities and summer work-based learning initiatives including Artprentice STEAMprentice Bizprentice and MBSYEP-supported activities.
$398,467 spent77% of program spendingELEMENTARY & MIDDLE SCHOOL ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND STEAM PROGRAMS: Through Smart Hustle Jr. and related elementary and middle school programming YEI introduced youth to entrepreneurship creativity financial literacy art and STEAM through age-appropriate hands-on projects. Students explored business formation branding product development design technology and basic financial concepts while creating products and participating in experiential learning activities. Programming incorporated creative disciplines and maker-based learning including apparel art cosmetics gardening and other STEAM-focused projects and provided opportunities for students to practice teamwork communication problem-solving and entrepreneurial thinking.
$68,371 spent13% of program spendingSMART HUSTLE ABROAD: YEI provided experiential travel and cultural learning opportunities designed to expand students exposure to colleges careers entrepreneurship culture and communities beyond their immediate neighborhoods. Youth participated in educational travel experiences that combined cultural immersion leadership development college and career exploration entrepreneurship and STEAM learning. The program removes financial barriers to travel for participating youth and uses pre-trip preparation hands-on experiences reflection and group learning to strengthen independence confidence global awareness and future aspirations.
$37,989 spent7% of program spendingOTHER PROGRAM SERVICES: EI conducted youth entrepreneurship events including KidBizCON and related youth business and community engagement activities and operated youth-centered social enterprises that provided hands-on opportunities for participants to develop produce market and sell products. These activities allowed youth to apply entrepreneurship creative financial customer service and workforce-readiness skills in real-world settings.
$12,620 spent$4,337 earned by the program2% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $517,447.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2021 to 2022, from $162k to $109k (−33%).
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: 2020 98% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 98% · 2024 92% · 2025 95%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of YOUTH ENTREPRENEUR INSTITUTE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (83% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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.
Chief executive
Tacharna Crump
Executive Director
Board chair
Danyale Wilson
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $269k → $30k.
2 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 ENTREPRENEUR INSTITUTE’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 ENTREPRENEUR INSTITUTE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
70% 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 ENTREPRENEUR INSTITUTE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 74% · 2018 43% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 83% — 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 ENTREPRENEUR INSTITUTE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
61% of YOUTH ENTREPRENEUR INSTITUTE's grant income comes from Washington, D.C. funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $50k 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 ENTREPRENEUR INSTITUTE's revenue grew 47% between 2020 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,482 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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In Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% 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 ENTREPRENEUR INSTITUTE: 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 ENTREPRENEUR INSTITUTE?
- YOUTH ENTREPRENEUR INSTITUTE (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $785,452 to it, the largest being ARCH DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ($266,211). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does YOUTH ENTREPRENEUR INSTITUTE have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $785,452 in grants to YOUTH ENTREPRENEUR INSTITUTE, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of YOUTH ENTREPRENEUR INSTITUTE?
- ARCH DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION is the largest funder on record, with $266,211 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like YOUTH ENTREPRENEUR INSTITUTE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 8 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