Youth Emergency Service Foundation

Analysis

Youth Emergency Service Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Gillette, WY. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in December 2003, 23 years ago. Its declared purposes cover philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Youth Emergency Service Foundation reported income of $706k and spending of $297k, leaving 58% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $343k to $706k (+106%), an average of +20% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 436%. Over the whole period it spent 35% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Youth Emergency Service Foundation sits at the 77th percentile: it is larger than about 77% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 75th percentile, and in the 78th percentile within WY. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Ltd Fund ($706k), Beyond Barriers Kansas Inc ($707k) and United Way of Mesa County Inc ($706k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 38% and program service revenue 0.2% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $74k (25% of expenses). At year end it held assets of $2.5m against liabilities of $13k, net assets of $2.5m. It reported 1 employees.