Form 990 for tax year 2023

Totals

Total revenue

$2,026,624

Total expenses

$1,887,816

Contributions and grants received

$1,973,383

Grants paid

$23,500

Program service revenue

$0

Investment income

$44,273

Other revenue

$8,968

Total assets, end of year

$1,264,176

Total liabilities, end of year

$31,550

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$1,232,626

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$1,451,700

Management and general expenses

$212,757

Fundraising expenses

$223,359

Program service expenses (Part III)

$1,451,700

Program services were 76.9% 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 · 2023

• Contributor Program: Young Voices' Contributor Program provides pro bono op-ed editing, pitching, and broadcast interview placement services to talented writers ages 18-35 knowledgeable in the classical liberal tradition. Our fiscal year 2023 was the most successful to date for the program, successfully placing 1,929 media hits (e.g. op-ed, radio, TV, podcast, etc.) in noted outlets including Fox News, USA Today, and the Wall Street Journal, reaching an estimated audience of 74 million. Beyond our entry-level placement services, Young Voices also offers continuing education and mentorship services for the top talents in our program, including fellowship programs for professional mentorship and an incubator program for podcast and streaming video hosts.

  Expenses $790,406

• The Dissident Project: The Dissident Project is a speaker's bureau by Young Voices that amplifies the voices of U.S. immigrants who survived tyrannical regimes to remind Americans about the importance of freedom. We offer high schools free talks from a growing roster of 12 speakers to share their heroic stories of escape and finding a new home in America. As of July 2023, we have completed 42 talks in front of 12,000+ people. In 2023, we have ambitious plans to scale up the Project, making 75 classroom appearances, offering free lesson plans, launching an essay contest, and more.

  Expenses $426,888 · Grants $6,000

• Social Mobility Fellowship:The fellowship ran from September 2023 through February 2024. Eight writers, selected through an application process, each wrote two stories featuring original reporting on the fellowship's subcategories of poverty alleviation, consumer empowerment, and entrepreneurial freedom. The fellowship was remarkably effective at amplifying beneficial policies and training lifelong advocates for social mobility.

  Expenses $199,687 · Grants $17,500

• Human Dignity Fellowship:YV aims to amplify the voices of young people pushing back against statism in Europe. Through training and mentorship, YV will showcase young people who are championing freedom in Europe's least free countries. They will write and publish op-eds in the mainstream media in their countries, standing up for property rights, economic freedom, and equality before the law. The result will be a chorus of coordinated but distinct young voices who proclaim the cause of freedom and dignity in the countries where they are most sorely lacking.

  Expenses $34,719

As filed on the 2023 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

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Provenance

Return type

form_990

Tax year

2023

Filed

10 October 2024

IRS schema version

2023v5.1

Source object

202402849349301450

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