Youth Law Center

Analysis

Youth Law Center is a registered charity in United States, based in Des Moines, IA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in October 1977, 49 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 June 2023, Youth Law Center reported income of $937k and spending of $953k, spending 102% of its income. Across the 4 years on record, from June 2020 to June 2023, income fell from $952k to $937k (-1.6%), an average of -0.5% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2021, when income rose by 26%. Over the whole period it spent 96% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Youth Law Center sits at the 74th percentile: it is larger than about 74% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 78th percentile, and in the 81st percentile within IA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Porch Chapel Hill-Carrboro ($936k), Mary McLeod Bethune Early Child Development Nursery Inc ($937k) and Samaritan Center Inc ($936k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 99% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $144k (15% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $533k. At year end it held assets of $1.2m against liabilities of $57k, net assets of $1.1m. It reported 13 employees.