Form 990 for tax year 2025
Filed by YOUTH UNITED FOR COMMUNITY ACTION.
Totals
- Total revenue
- $662,027
- Total expenses
- $567,974
- Contributions and grants received
- $442,761
- Grants paid
- $7,660
- Program service revenue
- $250
- Investment income
- $214,816
- Other revenue
- $4,200
- Total assets, end of year
- $2,703,768
- Total liabilities, end of year
- $0
- Net assets or fund balances, end of year
- $2,703,768
- Program services expenses (Part IX)
- $455,516
- Management and general expenses
- $58,578
- Fundraising expenses
- $53,880
- Program service expenses (Part III)
- $455,516
Program services were 80.2% 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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1e · Government grants (contributions)
$87,600
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1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants
$355,161
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2a · Program service revenue: Presentations, Workshops
total $250 · related or exempt $250
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3 · Investment income
total $24,421 · related or exempt $24,421
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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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6d · Net rental income or loss
total $0
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7a · Gross sales of assets other than inventory
other assets $600,000
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7b · Less cost or other basis and sales expenses
other assets $409,605
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7c · Gain or loss
other assets $190,395
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7d · Net gain or loss
total $190,395 · related or exempt $190,395
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8c · Net income from fundraising events
total $0
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9c · Net income from gaming
total $0
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10c · Net income from sales of inventory
total $0
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11a · Other revenue: Expense Reimbursement Income
total $4,200 · related or exempt $4,200
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11e · Other revenue, total
$4,200
Functional expenses
Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.
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1 · Grants to domestic organizations and governments
total $7,660 · program services $7,660
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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 $76,236 · program services $59,845 · management and general $8,767 · fundraising $7,624
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6 · Compensation of disqualified persons
total $0
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7 · Other salaries and wages
total $154,564 · program services $112,832 · management and general $21,639 · fundraising $20,093
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8 · Pension plan contributions
total $0
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9 · Other employee benefits
total $59,227 · program services $43,236 · management and general $8,292 · fundraising $7,699
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10 · Payroll taxes
total $20,267 · program services $14,795 · management and general $2,837 · fundraising $2,635
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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 $13,906 · program services $10,151 · management and general $1,947 · fundraising $1,808
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11d · Fees: lobbying
total $0
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11e · Fees: professional fundraising services
total $0
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11f · Fees: investment management
total $0
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11g · Fees: other
total $4,790 · program services $3,496 · management and general $671 · fundraising $623
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12 · Advertising and promotion
total $1,697 · program services $1,239 · management and general $237 · fundraising $221
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13 · Office expenses
total $19,308 · program services $14,095 · management and general $2,703 · fundraising $2,510
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14 · Information technology
total $0
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15 · Royalties
total $0
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16 · Occupancy
total $38,167 · program services $27,862 · management and general $5,343 · fundraising $4,962
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17 · Travel
total $9,729 · program services $7,102 · management and general $1,362 · fundraising $1,265
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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 $25,493 · program services $18,610 · management and general $3,569 · fundraising $3,314
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23 · Insurance
total $6,273 · program services $4,579 · management and general $878 · fundraising $816
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24a · Other expenses: Higher Learning Program
total $110,411 · program services $110,411
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24b · Other expenses: House Redevelpment Project
total $14,866 · program services $14,866
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24c · Other expenses: Charitable Community Engagemt
total $3,000 · program services $3,000
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24d · Other expenses: Staff Development
total $2,380 · program services $1,737 · management and general $333 · fundraising $310
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24e · All other expenses
total $0
Balance sheet
Part X, book values.
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1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing
beginning of year $772,749 · end of year $753,901
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2 · Savings and temporary cash investments
beginning of year $1,170,816 · end of year $1,299,803
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3 · Pledges and grants receivable
end of year $0
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4 · Accounts receivable
end of year $0
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5 · Loans and receivables from officers and key people
end of year $0
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6 · Loans and receivables from disqualified persons
end of year $0
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7 · Other notes and loans receivable
end of year $0
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8 · Inventories for sale or use
end of year $0
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9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges
end of year $0
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10a · Land, buildings and equipment: cost or other basis
$767,955
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10b · Land, buildings and equipment: accumulated depreciation
$117,891
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10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net
beginning of year $1,085,057 · end of year $650,064
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11 · Investments: publicly traded securities
end of year $0
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12 · Investments: other securities
end of year $0
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13 · Investments: program-related
end of year $0
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14 · Intangible assets
end of year $0
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15 · Other assets
end of year $0
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17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses
beginning of year $9,336
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25 · Other liabilities
beginning of year $450,000
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27 · Net assets without donor restrictions
beginning of year $2,569,286 · end of year $2,703,768
Mission and programs · 2025
Mission
Youth United for Community Action (YUCA), a grassroots community organization created, led, and run by young people of color, the majority from low-income communities, provides a safe space for young people to empower ourselves and work on environmental and social justice issues to establish positive systemic change through grassroots community organizing.
Activities or mission (Part I)
We launched Higher Learning in June of 1997, whose goal is to create a safe space where high school youth can come together to examine and act on issues that impact their communities. In 2010 we renewed our commitment to environmental and social change, and youth organizing, resulting in the launch of two new campaigns, a leadership and basebuilding network in East Palo Alto, the revamp of our staffing structure to better support youth-to-staff transitions, and a resource development plan aimed to diversify our funding sources. Currently, our work involves leadership development, community organizing, and coalition building.
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The Higher Learning Program was launched in June 1997 to serve the growing number of high school aged youth. The Higher Learning Program (HL) was initiated by high school youth in East Palo Alto to help support and develop young people as active leaders in the community. As a result, HL EPA brings high school aged youth together in a healthy and safe environment where they can identify and explore issues affecting them as young people and as members of their communities. Once an issue has been identified, the youth research and evaluate the root causes of the specific issue and develop/implement action plans to productively address this issue. This year there were two campaigns, a housing justice campaign and an environmental justice campaign.
Expenses $205,000
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Developing Leaders: Since its inception, YUCA believes that the people who are most affected should be the driving force to determining and bringing about their own solution. YUCA was founded on the belief that the most effective youth program should include the intense involvement of young people at all levels of the organization. As a result, representing our constituency, YUCA is led and run at all levels entirely by young people of color, majority low-income, majority women, thus providing an opportunity for us to define our own needs, determine our own vision, and implement it. Through intense leadership development that is grounded in real-time community organizing, young people at YUCA prove that youth are not just the promise of the future, but all the possibilities of the present.
Expenses $205,000
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Organizing the Community: As a community, East Palo Alto has a rich history of movement. It is a history borne out of struggle and the self-determined imagination of the Black Power movement whose struggles led by other peoples of color are also driven by. But the spirit of organizing is well and alive in our community. These are the footsteps that young people from YUCA follow in order to carve our own paths. Young people from YUCA are principled fighters and leaders who put our words and ideals to action. Since 1994, YUCA youth have taken on pressing community issues - whether it is environmental racism, tenant rights, or juvenile justice. YUCA youth currently work on two campaigns: 1) to promote environmental health, justice, and anti-displacement principles in land use planning policies, and 2) to promote thriving school environments aiming to increase high school graduation rates and preparing students for college or career.
Expenses $45,516
As filed on the 2025 return.
Listed in Part VII
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Kenia Najar Miranda
Executive Dir.
- Total calculated
- $76,236
- From this org
- $76,236
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 40
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Dalila Adofo
Board Chair
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.62
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Thomas Williams
Secretary
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
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Heleine Grewe
Treasurer
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
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Iliana Nicholas
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.04
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Ofelia Bello
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.04
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
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$7,660
Provenance
- Return type
- form_990
- Tax year
- 2025
- Filed
- 5 June 2026
- IRS schema version
- 2025v4.1
- Source object
- 202611569349300226
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