Form 990 for tax year 2025

Totals

Total revenue

$8,402,906

Total expenses

$12,450,473

Contributions and grants received

$7,834,073

Grants paid

$7,772,547

Program service revenue

$131,719

Investment income

$437,114

Other revenue

$0

Total assets, end of year

$13,207,195

Total liabilities, end of year

$1,495,727

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$11,711,468

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$10,809,466

Management and general expenses

$985,256

Fundraising expenses

$655,751

Program service expenses (Part III)

$10,809,466

Program services were 86.8% 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.

Mission and programs · 2025

• Advancing Ownership & Wealth through Economic Opportunity: Youthprise creates opportunities for economic prosperity by supporting programs and initiatives that build workforce skills, promote youth entrepreneurship, and expose youth to career pathways. Youthprise works with stakeholders across sectors to equip young people with the economic tools to thrive. In 2025, Youthprise awarded grants to community partners through our Opportunity Reboot program and other initiatives that work to connect young people with career pathways in high-demand industries; provide wraparound support such as mentoring and referrals for basic needs; and opportunities to earn industry-recognized credentials in areas and disciplines such as OSHA 10, NCCER Core Crafts in construction, Certified Nursing Assistant, and Personal Care Assistant. In 2025, Youthprise invested more than $4.3 million in Economic Opportunity grants and strategic investments.

  Expenses $5,301,142 · Grants $4,328,190

• Promoting Healing through Health and Safety: Youthprise supports programs and initiatives that promote the health and safety of young people. We champion work that promotes the healing of our youth and their right to health and safety. In addition to meeting basic food needs through our Nutrition Program, we work with community-based organizations to link healthy lifestyles with good nutrition. We take a holistic approach to health and safety and advance intervention strategies that prevent the criminalization of youth, which can pose a threat to public safety. In 2025 Youthprise supported 42 Nutrition sites across the Twin Cities metro region, distributing 185,233 meals and snacks to school-age children and youth. We also distributed over 1,000 boxes with groceries and meal kits to Twin Cities families to address increased need for meals during a time of instability regarding federal meal programs and increased ICE activity. Additionally, we continued to support 25 Twin Cities-based organizations through a cohort-based grantmaking and technical assistance initiative focused on non-clinical mental health support for youth, and we added a new cohort of 12 organizations to expand this work. We also co-launched an initiative focused on integrating practices that improve belonging, well-being, meaning and purpose within organizations that serve young people statewide. Youthprise invested more than $2.4 million in grants and strategic investments in this area in 2025.

  Expenses $2,934,899 · Grants $2,423,344 · Revenue $131,719

• Building Power through Learning and Leadership: We invest in learning opportunities that build knowledge, power, and agency among our youth; we support and amplify youth as leaders by building networks, developmental opportunities, and shifting policy/laws. Youthprise promotes the learning, leadership, and social-emotional development of youth by investing in programs that position young people as decision-makers. Through these initiatives, youth lead, shape solutions, and amplify their voices in reimagining and redesigning the systems that affect them. We seek to shift how programs interact with youth and support programs that engage youth in leadership and governance, a practice we model at Youthprise. We embed young people across all areas of our organization, and we have a goal of 50% representation of youth on our Board of Directors. In 2025, Youthprise supported organizations and activities that center young people in decisions impacting them through training and technical assistance, as well as financial investment. Among our activities in this area was an investment in a cross-state initiative to co-design afterschool systems in six locations across the country. In 2025, Youthprise made just over $1 million in grants and strategic investments to support Learning and Leadership activities.

  Expenses $2,573,425 · Grants $1,021,013

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Listed in Part VII

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. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us.

Schedule J

Part I's answers as filed. A line not listed was left unanswered; on lines 1a and 3 that means the box was not checked.

Grants on this return

• TRIO Community Meals LLC

  $473,491

  Meals for Nutrition Program

• City of Duluth

  $224,239

  Direct Cash Transfer Grant

• World Youth Connect

  $200,717

  Ramsey County JDAI

• Bois Forte Reservation Tribal Council

  $170,288

  Direct Cash Transfer Grant

• YouthLink

  $149,028

  Direct Cash Transfer Grant

• Healthy Community Initiative

  $147,322

  Northfield Youth Investment Fund

• Karen Organization of Minnesota

  $123,637

  Ramsey County Youth Justice Transformational Grant

• Ignite Afterschool

  $115,000

  Afterschool Infrastructure Youth Voice

• Michigan Afterschool Partnership

  $115,000

  Afterschool Infrastructure Youth Voice

• Vermont Afterschool Inc

  $115,000

  Afterschool Infrastructure Youth Voice

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Provenance

Return type

form_990

Tax year

2025

Filed

16 September 2026

IRS schema version

2025v4.2

Source object

202622609349301037

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