California · Nonprofit
YouthBeat
YouthBeat (California) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $194,207 to it, the largest being THE OAKLAND PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND ($80,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $646k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $194k
- Net assets
- $611k
What YouthBeat does
Mission
Helping underserved Oakland youth achieve their dreams and succeed in school, career, and life.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
YouthBeat offers free, high-quality media arts training and mentoring to underserved Oakland youth, helping them develop technical skills, creative expression, teamwork and leadership. Students learn from experienced media professionals, gain real-life work experience through YouthBeat PRO production projects, and employment pathways in the media industry. The organisation has grown from serving dozens of students to hundreds per year and partners with local media, schools and businesses to extend its impact.
$36,313 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $36,313.
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.
Board chair
CJ Hirschfield
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $17k → $3k.
3 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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 YouthBeat’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
YouthBeat leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
57% 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 YouthBeat.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 88% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 83% · 2023 100% — 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
50% of YouthBeat's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 20% 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
100% of YouthBeat's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $31k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
YouthBeat holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like YouthBeat
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
57% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
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 YouthBeat: 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 YouthBeat?
- YouthBeat (California) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $194,207 to it, the largest being THE OAKLAND PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND ($80,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does YouthBeat have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $194,207 in grants to YouthBeat, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of YouthBeat?
- THE OAKLAND PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND is the largest funder on record, with $80,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like YouthBeat 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 FY2025 (financials across 2025–2025), and the filings of 10 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