California · Nonprofit
YOUTH WITH A PURPOSE
YOUTH WITH A PURPOSE (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $284,500 to it, the largest being WEINGART FOUNDATION ($150,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $947k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $285k
- Net assets
- $226k
What Youth With a Purpose does
Mission
Youth With A Purpose's mission is to plant seeds of hope and water purpose in the lives of kids, youth and young adults through supportive services. We envision a world where youth in all communities have equal access to supportive services.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Youth With A Purpose (YWAP) proudly delivers transformative programs across several core areas: mentorship (Mommy Mentor Network & SideBySide), transitional housing through The Purpose House, the YWAP Youth Center, the Arts 2 the Stage performing arts program, career exploration workshops, and community empowerment events such as Unity 4 Youth, the Annual Banquet, and the Holiday Toy Drive. In 2024, YWAP directly impacted the lives of over 350 youth through dynamic, developmentally focused programming centered on education, personal growth, and family engagement. The organization hosted more than 10 vibrant community events, including favorites like Family Game Night and the Fall Festival, strengthening bonds between youth and their communities. The Purpose House operated at full capacity year-round, offering a safe, nurturing home for referred youth. Residents received personalized care packages and engaged in over 170 life skills sessions covering job readiness, financial literacy, cooking, and communication?preparing them for independence and success. Through the Mommy Mentor Network, YWAP supported young mothers with over 280 individualized mentorship sessions and 19…
$780,832 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $780,832.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2023 to 2024, from $109k to $226k (+108%).
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.
100% of YOUTH WITH A PURPOSE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (83% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 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
Shameka Beaugard
CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $20k → $35k.
1 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% 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 WITH A PURPOSE’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 WITH A PURPOSE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
46% 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 WITH A PURPOSE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 71% · 2023 64% — 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.
Where its funders are
99% of YOUTH WITH A PURPOSE's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $50k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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 WITH A PURPOSE has grown faster than three-quarters 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 WITH A PURPOSE
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
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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 WITH A PURPOSE: 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 WITH A PURPOSE?
- YOUTH WITH A PURPOSE (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $284,500 to it, the largest being WEINGART FOUNDATION ($150,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does YOUTH WITH A PURPOSE have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $284,500 in grants to YOUTH WITH A PURPOSE, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of YOUTH WITH A PURPOSE?
- WEINGART FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $150,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like YOUTH WITH A PURPOSE 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 2021–2024), and the filings of 7 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