California · Nonprofit
Youth Will
Youth Will (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,000 to it, the largest being THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $113k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $20k
- Net assets
- $20k
What Youth Will does
Mission
The organization's mission is to empower youth through activism, governmental advocacy, and leadership.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Youth Will facilitated a wide range of programs focused on youth empowerment, climate justice, and community advocacy during this reporting period. Through its Youth Power Cooperatives, Youth Will created consistent spaces for young people to connect, build community, and support each other in their social justice journeys. These gatherings emphasized personal and professional development, community issues, and peer-to-peer support.The organization also hosted several community-based events aimed at educating and mobilizing youth around environmental justice. One creative event combined pot painting and plant building to highlight the importance of community gardens, sustainability, and the mental health benefits of outdoor activities. Another workshop addressed the emotional toll of climate change, helping youth process climate anxiety and transform it into meaningful advocacy. These efforts were especially vital in the wake of environmental disasters that disproportionately impacted underserved communities.Youth Will continued to invest in youth-led advocacy through trainings and direct civic engagement. Youth participants were prepared to speak at city council meetings, where…
$28,672 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $28,672.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Margie de Ruyter
CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of Youth Will’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 Will leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 Will.
“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.
Where its funders are
Youth Will draws 50% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 2 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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 Will runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 5,688 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,688 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Youth Will
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.
Public support
0%
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 Will: 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 Will?
- Youth Will (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,000 to it, the largest being THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Youth Will have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $20,000 in grants to Youth Will.
- Who is the largest funder of Youth Will?
- THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Youth Will 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 2024–2024), and the filings of 2 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