Michigan · Nonprofit
YOUTHTANK INC
YOUTHTANK INC (Michigan) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $197,263 to it, the largest being VARIETY CLUB CHARITY FOR CHILDREN DBA VARIETY THE CHILDREN'S CHARITY ($106,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $582k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $197k
- Net assets
- $63k
What Youthtank Inc does
Mission
YouthTank equips Detroit youth with paid hands-on experiences in STEM entrepreneurship and city-building that develop technical skills leadership and confidence while expanding pathways to postsecondary success and widening representation in the innovation economy.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
MOBILITY LEADERSHIP LAB: YouthTank Detroits Mobility Leadership Lab is an intensive project-based workforce development program that engages high school and college-age youth in solving real-world transportation and mobility challenges alongside industry partners civic leaders and startups. Participants develop technical design and entrepreneurship skills through hands-on projects focused on emerging mobility solutions including AI data analysis and inclusive urban innovation. The program provides paid experiential learning opportunities that prepare young people for careers in high-demand mobility and technology fields while contributing youth-informed solutions to Detroits evolving innovation ecosystem.
$175,980 spent$89,395 earned by the program41% of program spendingMOBILITY SUMMIT: The Detroit Youth Mobility Summit is a youth-led convening that brings together students industry leaders educators and community partners to explore how mobility education and technology shape access to opportunity in Detroit. Planned and facilitated by YouthTank interns the summit elevates youth voice in conversations about the future of transportation and workforce innovation while fostering collaboration across the citys mobility ecosystem.
$23,285 spent$5,000 earned by the program5% of program spendingOther programs
$227,453 spent$232,736 earned by the program53% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $426,718.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 $28k to $74k (+169%).
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: 2024 81% · 2025 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of YOUTHTANK INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 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
Holly Arida
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $2k → $38k.
1 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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 YOUTHTANK INC’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
YOUTHTANK INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
65% 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 YOUTHTANK INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 40% — 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
96% of YOUTHTANK INC's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $15k 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
YOUTHTANK INC has grown faster 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 YOUTHTANK INC
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 Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 YOUTHTANK INC: 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 YOUTHTANK INC?
- YOUTHTANK INC (Michigan) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $197,263 to it, the largest being VARIETY CLUB CHARITY FOR CHILDREN DBA VARIETY THE CHILDREN'S CHARITY ($106,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does YOUTHTANK INC have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $197,263 in grants to YOUTHTANK INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of YOUTHTANK INC?
- VARIETY CLUB CHARITY FOR CHILDREN DBA VARIETY THE CHILDREN'S CHARITY is the largest funder on record, with $106,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like YOUTHTANK INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 2023–2025), and the filings of 9 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