California · Nonprofit
YOUTH RADIO
YOUTH RADIO (California) receives grants from 70 organizations whose IRS filings report $27,431,023 to it, the largest being THE CALIFORNIA ENDOWMENT ($6,351,109). 39 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.7M
- Funders on record
- 70
- Grants received
- $27M
- Net assets
- $-281455
What Youth Radio does
Mission
Youth Radio dba yr media is an award-winning media production company that trains a group of diverse young people in digital media and technology. Partnering with industry professionals, students learn to produce marketable media for massive audiences while bringing youth perspectives to issues of public interest and concern. Through yr media, young people transform their lives, communities, and the national conversation. By bringing national scale to yr media's proven model of youth engagement and media production training, yr media will dramatically expand opportunities for young people from historically marginalized communities (low income youth and youth of color) to challenge conventional narratives, reach and influence significant audiences, and achieve lasting change in their own lives and in their communities.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
YR Media ceased to provide its Supportive Services programs due to lack of resources.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
Youth Radio dba yr media partners professional journalists and content creators with youth, mostly in underrepresented and underresourced communities, to produce award-winning journalism that reaches audiences in the tens of millions annually. Yr media distributes digital and broadcast content through outlets including the huffington post, new york times, medium, teen vogue, pbs, a range of local public radio stations and npr. Yr media produces high-impact content on a range of issues including youth employment, juvenile justice, health, education, arts/culture and science, yr media's content has won more than 60 of journalism's most prestigious awards, including two george foster peabody awards and four edward r. Murrow awards.
$1,891,038 spent$250,685 earned by the program51% of program spendingDigital media and technology education: yr media educates 14-24 year olds from traditionally underresourced and underrepresented communities in areas including media, music, and technology. Yr media students engage in six months of intensive media and technical education and on-the-job training. In the first three months of training, students survey journalism, audio/music production and multimedia skills. Students who advance to the second three months of training, focus on a single track for the session, and graduate with a final project and polished resume. Upon completion of six months of paid training, students are eligible for paid internships within one of yr media's programs/departments. Interns work alongside industry professionals to polish their skill sets in production, tech and engineering, media education, or administration. Working together, they hone their professional skills. Interns are hired through a competitive application process and complete either a three- or six-month employment opportunity. Currently, yr media provides media education and employment opportunities to more than 250 young people annually.
$1,826,760 spent$38,596 earned by the program49% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,717,798.
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 $11M to $5.4M (−53%).
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 25% · 2018 20% · 2019 23% · 2020 17% · 2021 22% · 2022 8% · 2023 11% · 2024 25%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
92% of YOUTH RADIO’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (72% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Kyra Kyles
Chief Executive Officer
Board chair
Julius Toledo
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 21 funders to 26 funders, grant income fell $3.2M → $2.4M.
17 of 70 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 19% 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 RADIO’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 70 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 RADIO has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 46% · 2018 20% · 2019 21% · 2020 22% · 2021 39% · 2022 29% · 2023 35% — 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
43% of YOUTH RADIO's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
54% of YOUTH RADIO's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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 RADIO's revenue fell 40% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 611 unclassified nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding YOUTH RADIO receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.2M on record.
- National Science Foundation$3.0M
- National Endowment for the Arts$200k
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 RADIO
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
61% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
49%
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 RADIO: 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 RADIO?
- YOUTH RADIO (California) receives grants from 70 organizations whose IRS filings report $27,431,023 to it, the largest being THE CALIFORNIA ENDOWMENT ($6,351,109). 39 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does YOUTH RADIO have?
- IRS filings report 70 organizations giving $27,431,023 in grants to YOUTH RADIO, 39 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of YOUTH RADIO?
- THE CALIFORNIA ENDOWMENT is the largest funder on record, with $6,351,109 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like YOUTH RADIO find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 70 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