Colorado · Nonprofit
YOUTH ON RECORD
YOUTH ON RECORD (Colorado) receives grants from 54 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,584,519 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($1,075,000). 33 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.1M
- Funders on record
- 54
- Grants received
- $6.6M
- Net assets
- $1.2M
What Youth on Record does
Mission
Mission: Youth on Record empowers underserved youth to achieve their academic, artistic, and personal best by employing colorado musicians and artists as their coaches and mentors. Vision: Youth on Record's vision is for youth to discover how their voices and value can create a better world.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Yor sits at the intersections of art, culture, creative youth development, education, and economic opportunity, with a focus on creating positive social change while helping young artists and young people thrive. During calendar year 2024, yor advanced its mission through the following major activities: academic success programming - artist-led, music-based education was delivered in partner schools within denver public schools (dps) and aurora public schools (aps). For-credit classes were offered in nine high schools and one additional campus, led by local professional colorado musicians trained in yor's engaged and liberatory teaching pedagogy. The organization also supported school partners with professional development trainings. Young creative ecosystem programming - yor provided year-round programs serving youth and young adults ages 11-24, including open labs, open mics, the fellowship of young creatives, and podcasting/audio arts training and project production. These programs connected young creatives with mentors, peers, and industry networks and increased access to paid performance, media, and events opportunities. The work of this program area was highlighted through…
$1,777,978 spent$386,424 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,777,978.
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 2020 to 2021, from $1.1M to $2.4M (+118%).
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 32% · 2018 18% · 2019 6% · 2020 25% · 2021 9% · 2022 3% · 2023 10% · 2024 1% · 2025 17%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
81% of YOUTH ON RECORD’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 18 funders, grant income rose $155k → $705k.
11 of 54 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 26% 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 ON RECORD’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 54 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 ON RECORD has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
58% 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 ON RECORD.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 29% · 2018 24% · 2019 39% · 2020 18% · 2021 50% · 2022 27% · 2023 35% — 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
36% of YOUTH ON RECORD's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
53% of YOUTH ON RECORD's grant income comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.7M 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.
Against its field
YOUTH ON RECORD has grown faster than half of the 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding YOUTH ON RECORD receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $30k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$30k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like YOUTH ON RECORD
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 Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
84%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for YOUTH ON RECORD: 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 ON RECORD?
- YOUTH ON RECORD (Colorado) receives grants from 54 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,584,519 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($1,075,000). 33 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does YOUTH ON RECORD have?
- IRS filings report 54 organizations giving $6,584,519 in grants to YOUTH ON RECORD, 33 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of YOUTH ON RECORD?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $1,075,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like YOUTH ON RECORD find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 54 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing