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YOUTH ENTREPRENEURS INC

EIN 48-1187886 WICHITA, KS

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Revenue 2024
$7,290,636
Expenses 2024
$7,101,679

Program services were 80.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B90
Classification
2000
Street
4111 EAST 37TH ST N SUITE D101

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

TO (I) EDUCATE YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULTS WITH RESPECT TO ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND BUSINESS GENERALLY; AND (II) ENCOURAGE THE PRACTICE OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP BY YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULTS. EMPOWERED IS COLLABORATING WITH EDUCATORS TO TRANSFORM EDUCATION TO BETTER SERVE STUDENTS- ONE CLASSROOM (CONTINUED ON SCHEDULE O)

Activities or mission (Part I)

Empowered believes that every student deserves an education that truly prepares them for success in their life. We provide 30,000+ (continued on schedule o)

  • Growth: Our educator community grew to include 54,000 members by the end of 2024. 15,000 of those educators had accounts on our online curricular and community platform, Empowered Hub, with 24/7/365 access to our digital activity library, AI activity generator, classroom resources, on-demand and virtual professional development and training content, and the ideas, suggestions, and inspiration being shared by our collaborative educator community members. That number included 5,000 educators who newly joined Empowered Hub during the year. During that time, we also gained 3,000 educators who engage with us and our educator community via social media bringing our total to 18,000 social followers. The growth in our educator community means more students, nationally, benefiting from personalized, hands-on educational experiences that help them be prepared for success outside of school. Our community additionally included 20,000 educators who consume our content through other digital means, such as our monthly Teacher e-newsletter. (continued on schedule o)

    Expenses $5,716,848 · Grants $483,717 · Revenue $14,585

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Kylie Stupka

    Director/President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Amy Pelletier

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 2 related

  • Dale Gibbens

    Director/Vice Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 9 related

  • Elizabeth Koch

    Director/Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3 + 7 related

  • Meredith Olson

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • WW Hanna

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Henrich Heuer

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Tracey Andrist

    Assistant Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $259,366
    From this org
    $238,878
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $20,488
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $188,878
    Bonus
    $50,000
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $10,938
    Nontaxable benefits
    $9,550
    Filer's total
    $259,366

  • Weston Edwards

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 10 related

  • Joel Short

    Director of Business Systems

    Total calculated
    $156,460
    From this org
    $129,484
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $26,976
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $119,484
    Bonus
    $10,000
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $7,385
    Nontaxable benefits
    $19,591
    Filer's total
    $156,460

  • Katherine Archibald

    Chief Product Officer

    Total calculated
    $248,542
    From this org
    $213,996
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $34,546
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $163,996
    Bonus
    $50,000
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $2,365
    Nontaxable benefits
    $32,181
    Filer's total
    $248,542

  • Lindsay Schroeder

    Chief Executive Officer

    Total calculated
    $276,286
    From this org
    $236,680
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $39,606
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $161,680
    Bonus
    $75,000
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $14,365
    Nontaxable benefits
    $25,241
    Filer's total
    $276,286

  • Patrick LaRocco

    Director of Data

    Total calculated
    $121,275
    From this org
    $114,695
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $6,580
    Hours/week
    50

  • Sean Amore

    Director, Brand Strategy and Communications

    Total calculated
    $115,754
    From this org
    $104,027
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $11,727
    Hours/week
    40

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $7,290,636
    Expenses
    $7,101,679
    Contributions
    $7,123,198
    Grants paid
    $483,717
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $4,011,833
    Expenses
    $6,937,369
    Contributions
    $3,946,632
    Grants paid
    $147,920
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $5,081,118
    Expenses
    $7,739,704
    Contributions
    $5,012,556
    Grants paid
    $14,000

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $6,293,107
    Expenses
    $8,371,488
    Assets (EOY)
    $8,370,922

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,944,697
    Expenses
    $4,697,455
    Assets (EOY)
    $9,530,454

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $8,813,777
    Expenses
    $10,990,315
    Assets (EOY)
    $10,104,253

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $9,655,688
    Expenses
    $8,442,228
    Assets (EOY)
    $11,966,949

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $11,680,667
    Expenses
    $7,551,365
    Assets (EOY)
    $10,690,203

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $11,680,667
    Expenses
    $7,551,365
    Assets (EOY)
    $10,690,203

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,227,298
    Expenses
    $2,791,780
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,129,709

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,167,905
    Expenses
    $2,255,023
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,522,095

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $1,683,810
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,583,577

  • 2010 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $1,404,109
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,409,247

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

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Grants received

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

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2024 return

Declared as related by

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.