Virginia · Nonprofit
YOUTH LIFE FOUNDATION OF RICHMOND
YOUTH LIFE FOUNDATION OF RICHMOND (Virginia) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,116,753 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($339,304). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 76% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $630k
- Funders on record
- 29
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $884k
What Youth Life Foundation of Richmond does
Mission
The Youth Life Foundation of Richmond operates Learning Centers to develop leaders by making long-term investments in children from under-served communities. By supporting students academically, developing their character from a young age, raising expectations, and investing in their lives through committed mentoring relationships, these youth will rise above their circumstances to become tomorrow's leaders.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Students in Youth Life Learning Centers participate in structured academic enrichment and small group tutoring. 1) Academic Support: YLFR Learning Centers are staffed by certified teachers in order to provide quality, individualized instruction, and ongoing evaluation of student progress. 2) Small Group tutors: lesson plans are implemented by committed volunteer tutors during Learning Center hours throughout the week, allowing each group to receive personal attention and build trust with caring adults. 3) character development: students focus on meeting high expectations for their social and behavioral development as they grow into responsible members of their communities. 4) Long-term commitment: a unique and vital element of the YLFR model is to invest in children from a young age and stick with them through graduation from high school. 5) Students who have the lowest reading scores and needs meet up to two times per week with reading specialists and we have seen tremendous reading growth as a result.
$385,886 spent$630,216 earned by the program100% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $385,886.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $512k to $868k (+69%).
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: 2019 0% · 2020 17% · 2021 0% · 2022 0% · 2023 13% · 2024 0% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
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.
Chief executive
Heather Goodlett
Executive Director & Secretary
Board chair
Elizabeth Siebers
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 9 funders, grant income fell $204k → $68k.
9 of 29 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 76% 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 LIFE FOUNDATION OF RICHMOND’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 LIFE FOUNDATION OF RICHMOND has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 30% 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
82% 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 LIFE FOUNDATION OF RICHMOND.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 60% · 2018 47% · 2019 86% · 2020 32% · 2021 29% · 2022 62% · 2023 43% — 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
44% of YOUTH LIFE FOUNDATION OF RICHMOND's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 66% 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
76% of YOUTH LIFE FOUNDATION OF RICHMOND'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 $264k that is directly attributable, 69% of it comes from Virginia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $853k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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.
Organizations like YOUTH LIFE FOUNDATION OF RICHMOND
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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds YOUTH LIFE FOUNDATION OF RICHMOND?
- YOUTH LIFE FOUNDATION OF RICHMOND (Virginia) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,116,753 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($339,304). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 76% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does YOUTH LIFE FOUNDATION OF RICHMOND have?
- IRS filings report 29 organizations giving $1,116,753 in grants to YOUTH LIFE FOUNDATION OF RICHMOND, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of YOUTH LIFE FOUNDATION OF RICHMOND?
- THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $339,304 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like YOUTH LIFE FOUNDATION OF RICHMOND find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 29 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