Kansas · Nonprofit
Youth Entrepreneurs Inc
Youth Entrepreneurs Inc (Kansas) receives grants from 78 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,223,337 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($4,010,000). 39 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $7.3M
- Funders on record
- 78
- Grants received
- $16M
- Net assets
- $1.7M
What Youth Entrepreneurs Inc does
Mission
To (I) educate young people and adults with respect to entrepreneurship and business generally; and (ii) encourage the practice of entrepreneurship by young people and adults. Empowered is collaborating with educators to transform education to better serve students- one classroom (continued on schedule o)
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Growth: Our educator community grew to include 54,000 members by the end of 2024. 15,000 of those educators had accounts on our online curricular and community platform, Empowered Hub, with 24/7/365 access to our digital activity library, AI activity generator, classroom resources, on-demand and virtual professional development and training content, and the ideas, suggestions, and inspiration being shared by our collaborative educator community members. That number included 5,000 educators who newly joined Empowered Hub during the year. During that time, we also gained 3,000 educators who engage with us and our educator community via social media bringing our total to 18,000 social followers. The growth in our educator community means more students, nationally, benefiting from personalized, hands-on educational experiences that help them be prepared for success outside of school. Our community additionally included 20,000 educators who consume our content through other digital means, such as our monthly Teacher e-newsletter. (continued on schedule o)
$5,716,848 spentof which $483,717 as grants$14,585 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $5,716,848.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 $5.6M to $2.9M (−49%).
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.
98% of Youth Entrepreneurs Inc’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. 4 of the last 7 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
Lindsay Schroeder
Chief Executive Officer
Board chair
Elizabeth Koch
Director/Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 18 funders to 9 funders, grant income fell $1.6M → $556k.
21 of 78 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 68% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $13M from 7 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Seminar Network Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money Youth Entrepreneurs Inc raised.
From the IRS filings of Youth Entrepreneurs Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 78 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 Entrepreneurs Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% 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
69% 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 Entrepreneurs Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 64% · 2018 67% · 2019 22% · 2020 19% · 2021 29% · 2022 32% · 2023 36% — 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
20% of Youth Entrepreneurs Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
68% of Youth Entrepreneurs Inc's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $5.1M that is directly attributable, 85% of it comes from funders outside Kansas, across 19 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $11M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 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 Entrepreneurs Inc is better cushioned than half of the 11,752 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,752 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like Youth Entrepreneurs 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 Kansas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
57%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 21 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Capitol Leaders Institute · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Youth Entrepreneurs Inc: 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 Entrepreneurs Inc?
- Youth Entrepreneurs Inc (Kansas) receives grants from 78 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,223,337 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($4,010,000). 39 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Youth Entrepreneurs Inc have?
- IRS filings report 78 organizations giving $16,223,337 in grants to Youth Entrepreneurs Inc, 39 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Youth Entrepreneurs Inc?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $4,010,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Youth Entrepreneurs Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kansas. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 78 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