Youth Garden Project

Analysis

Youth Garden Project is a registered charity in United States, based in Moab, UT. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in May 1997, 29 years ago. Its declared purposes cover crime and legal-related, which this site groups under human rights and equality. 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 Garden Project reported income of $463k and spending of $437k, spending 94% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $323k to $463k (+43%), an average of +9.4% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 30%. Over the whole period it spent 88% of the income it received.

Among 9,611 United States charities whose main cause is human rights and equality and that reported income, Youth Garden Project sits at the 61st percentile: it is larger than about 61% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 69th percentile, and in the 67th percentile within UT. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Community Tax Law Project ($463k), Unshakeable ($464k) and Safe Passage Youth Foundation ($463k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 73% and program service revenue 17% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $289k. At year end it held assets of $386k against liabilities of $6,873, net assets of $379k. It reported 13 employees.