Form 990 for tax year 2025
Filed by SILICON VALLEY YOUTH CLIMATE ACTION.
Totals
- Total revenue
- $245,334
- Total expenses
- $399,076
- Contributions and grants received
- $231,166
- Grants paid
- $0
- Program service revenue
- $14,168
- Investment income
- $0
- Other revenue
- $0
- Total assets, end of year
- $28,195
- Total liabilities, end of year
- $0
- Net assets or fund balances, end of year
- $28,195
- Program services expenses (Part IX)
- $56,839
- Management and general expenses
- $259,021
- Fundraising expenses
- $83,216
- Program service expenses (Part III)
- $56,839
Program services were 14.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
Line items
Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.
Revenue
Part VIII, the statement of revenue.
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1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants
$231,166
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2a · Program service revenue: UNRESTRICTED FUND
total $14,168 · related or exempt $14,168
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3 · Investment income
total $0
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4 · Income from investment of tax-exempt bond proceeds
total $0
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5 · Royalties
total $0
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6c · Rental income or loss
real property $0 · personal property $0
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6d · Net rental income or loss
total $0
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7d · Net gain or loss
total $0
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8a · Fundraising events: gross income
$0
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8b · Fundraising events: direct expenses
$0
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8c · Net income from fundraising events
total $0
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9a · Gaming: gross income
$0
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9b · Gaming: direct expenses
$0
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9c · Net income from gaming
total $0
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10a · Gross sales of inventory
$0
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10b · Cost of goods sold
$0
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10c · Net income from sales of inventory
total $0
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11e · Other revenue, total
$0
Functional expenses
Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.
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1 · Grants to domestic organizations and governments
total $0
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2 · Grants to domestic individuals
total $0
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3 · Grants to foreign organizations and individuals
total $0
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4 · Benefits paid to or for members
total $0
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5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees
total $103,388 · management and general $103,388
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6 · Compensation of disqualified persons
total $0
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7 · Other salaries and wages
total $62,637 · management and general $62,637
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8 · Pension plan contributions
total $0
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9 · Other employee benefits
total $18,516 · management and general $18,516
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10 · Payroll taxes
total $56,645 · management and general $56,645
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11a · Fees: management
total $0
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11b · Fees: legal
total $0
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11c · Fees: accounting
total $1,643 · management and general $1,643
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11d · Fees: lobbying
total $0
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11e · Fees: professional fundraising services
total $12,627 · fundraising $12,627
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11f · Fees: investment management
total $0
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11g · Fees: other
total $0
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12 · Advertising and promotion
total $21,879 · fundraising $21,879
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13 · Office expenses
total $3,357 · management and general $3,357
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14 · Information technology
total $4,574 · management and general $4,574
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15 · Royalties
total $0
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16 · Occupancy
total $0
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17 · Travel
total $0
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18 · Travel or entertainment for public officials
total $0
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19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings
total $0
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20 · Interest
total $0
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21 · Payments to affiliates
total $0
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22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization
total $0
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23 · Insurance
total $0
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24a · Other expenses: COST OF LABOR
total $30,748 · fundraising $30,748
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24b · Other expenses: EVENT EXPENSES
total $17,962 · fundraising $17,962
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24c · Other expenses: LIABILITY INSURANCE
total $3,567 · management and general $3,567
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24d · Other expenses: PROGRAM EXPENSES
total $56,839 · program services $56,839
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24e · All other expenses
total $4,694 · management and general $4,694
Balance sheet
Part X, book values.
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1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing
beginning of year $181,937 · end of year $28,195
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2 · Savings and temporary cash investments
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
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3 · Pledges and grants receivable
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
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4 · Accounts receivable
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
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5 · Loans and receivables from officers and key people
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
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6 · Loans and receivables from disqualified persons
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
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7 · Other notes and loans receivable
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
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8 · Inventories for sale or use
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
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9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
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10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
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11 · Investments: publicly traded securities
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
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12 · Investments: other securities
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
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13 · Investments: program-related
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
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14 · Intangible assets
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
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15 · Other assets
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
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17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
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18 · Grants payable
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
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19 · Deferred revenue
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
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20 · Tax-exempt bond liabilities
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
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21 · Escrow or custodial account liability
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
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22 · Loans and payables to officers and key people
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
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23 · Secured mortgages and notes payable
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
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24 · Unsecured notes and loans payable
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
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25 · Other liabilities
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
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29 · Capital stock, trust principal or current funds
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
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30 · Paid-in or capital surplus, or land, building or equipment fund
beginning of year $0 · end of year $0
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31 · Retained earnings, endowment or other funds
beginning of year $181,937 · end of year $28,195
Mission and programs · 2025
Mission
SVYCA empowers teens and young adults to combat climate change immediately through impactful education and policy initiatives. Our youth work in focused climate action teams to ensure important climate policies and measures receive support at every level, including local, regional, and statewide. Youth at SVYCA gain in-depth knowledge about climate policy, build relationships with key climate stakeholders such as elected officials and climate tech leaders, and gain exposure to climate career pathways across multiple industries and disciplines.
Activities or mission (Part I)
SVYCA EMPOWERS TEENS AND YOUNG ADULTS TO COMBAT CLIMATE CHANGE IMMEDIATELY THROUGH IMPACTFUL EDUCATION AND POLICY INITIATIVES.
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SVYCA proposed to work on a number of SCCYCI goals related to Focus Area 2 and 4: Focus Area 2 Goal: Support youth leadership development by recruiting and training high school students on climate solutions and leadership skills. Focus Area 2 Goal: Develop and build out annual events and partnership programs that SVYCA leads and supports. These programs focus on youth leadership development and climate action. Focus Area 4 Goal: Develop and build out annual events and partnership programs that SVYCA leads and supports. These programs focus on green career pathways.
Expenses $31,560
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The purpose of the Silicon Valley Youth Climate Action 2025 Youth Leadership Summit is to unite youth behind learning about and taking actions to combat climate change while building collective resiliency and awareness around sustainability. This summit invites high school and college students, as well as young adults to a day of interactive workshops as well as informative speaker programs that stretch across a vast array of urgent environmental topics, such as fast fashion, green career paths, climate science, and effective climate and sustainability solutions etc. Through the Youth Leadership Summit, youth in Silicon Valley will become empowered, learn about best practices, and develop skills to efficiently and effectively bring positive environmental change to their communities.
Expenses $2,843
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1) Climate Literacy School Assemblies 2) After School Educator Trainings 3) 10-minute video (with video editing needed) in advisory periods 4) Multilingual videos 5) Social Media Ads
Expenses $22,436
As filed on the 2025 return.
Listed in Part VII
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ZEKUN LI
ED
- Total calculated
- $103,388
- From this org
- $103,388
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 40
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VANESSA SHIN
PRESIDENT
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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KAUSHIK TOTA
VICE PRESIDENT
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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KRISTEN LYN
TREASURER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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PETER PHAM
SECRETARY
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those.
Grants on this return
No itemized grants to organizations on this return.
Provenance
- Return type
- form_990
- Tax year
- 2025
- Filed
- 13 May 2026
- IRS schema version
- 2025v4.2
- Source object
- 202641829349301324
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