Colorado · Nonprofit
YOUTHROOTS
YOUTHROOTS (Colorado) receives grants from 47 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,890,134 to it, the largest being THE COLORADO HEALTH FOUNDATION ($403,620). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $538k
- Funders on record
- 47
- Grants received
- $1.9M
- Net assets
- $330k
What Youthroots does
Mission
Youthroots empowers young people particularly those from underrepresented communities to become changemakers through hands-on experiences in philanthropy, civic engagement, and community leadership. We equip youth with the tools, confidence, and opportunities to identify community needs, raise and distribute funds, collect and analyze youth-led data, and advocate for equitable systems change. Our programs cultivate leadership, amplify youth voice, and foster a lifelong commitment to social impact
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Community youthboards: in Youthroots' community youthboards program, high school students form local youthboards, functioning as miniature foundations. Over 19 sessions, they assess community needs, fundraise, and allocate grants to local nonprofits. Through research, dialogues, and fundraising efforts, participants develop leadership, collaboration, and decision-making skills, empowered to catalyze positive change. Facilitated by student leadership, the program fosters vibrant discussions and genuine collaboration, inspiring meaningful transformation.
$213,070 spent$186,407 earned by the program41% of program spendingYouthscan project: the youthscan project is a statewide initiative dedicated to amplifying youth voices in decision-making processes. It serves as a platform to elevate youth perspectives on community issues, support schools and communities in addressing local youth needs, identify emerging concerns in real time, and highlight demographic and locational differences in issue experiences. Open to all organizations, schools, classrooms, and communities, the project emphasizes the importance of centering youth voices on youth issues for inclusive and impactful outcomes.
$192,282 spent37% of program spendingGiv fellowship: philanthropy internship program for young adults from underserved & underrepresented communities, that offers valuable opportunities for youth to explore and pursue careers in the philanthropic and nonprofit sectors. Participants discover their potential while enhancing the sector's ability to address community needs by integrating youth voices and expertise.
$114,330 spent22% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $519,682.
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 2024 to 2025, from $539k to $380k (−29%).
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: 2021 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
64% of YOUTHROOTS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Board chair
Miguel In Suk Lovato
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 18 funders, grant income rose $23k → $602k.
10 of 47 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% 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 YOUTHROOTS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 47 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
YOUTHROOTS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
48% 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 YOUTHROOTS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 45% · 2018 90% · 2019 36% · 2020 29% · 2021 17% · 2022 33% · 2023 32% — 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 YOUTHROOTS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 49% 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
85% of YOUTHROOTS's grant income comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $717k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
YOUTHROOTS has grown faster than half 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 YOUTHROOTS
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
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
78%
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 YOUTHROOTS: 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 YOUTHROOTS?
- YOUTHROOTS (Colorado) receives grants from 47 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,890,134 to it, the largest being THE COLORADO HEALTH FOUNDATION ($403,620). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does YOUTHROOTS have?
- IRS filings report 47 organizations giving $1,890,134 in grants to YOUTHROOTS, 23 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of YOUTHROOTS?
- THE COLORADO HEALTH FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $403,620 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like YOUTHROOTS 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.
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 47 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