Youth Encouragement Services Inc

Analysis

Youth Encouragement Services Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Aurora, IN. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 1981, 45 years ago. Its declared purposes cover human services, which this site groups under poverty relief. 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 Encouragement Services Inc reported income of $2.3m and spending of $1.2m, leaving 47% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $909k to $2.3m (+154%), an average of +26% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 107%. Over the whole period it spent 73% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Youth Encouragement Services Inc sits at the 84th percentile: it is larger than about 84% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 87th percentile, and in the 88th percentile within IN. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Harmony Day Support Inc ($2.3m), Daeap-Dublin Area Emergency Assistance Program ($2.3m) and Wood Glen Hall ($2.3m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 47% and program service revenue 50% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $769k. At year end it held assets of $2.9m against liabilities of $5,627, net assets of $2.9m. It reported 20 employees.