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BETTER YOUTH INC

EIN 13-4166295 LOS ANGELES, CA

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Revenue 2024
$1,043,046
Expenses 2024
$1,027,685

Program services were 74.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
O30
Classification
2000
Street
1465 TAMARIND AVE STE 216

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

We provide access, equity, and validation to foster and system impacted youth creatives ages 16-24 through media arts programming and mentoring helping them bridge the digital divide and develop their creative confidence, upleveling our youth through pre-apprenticeship and apprenticeship career pathways in digital storytelling.

Activities or mission (Part I)

We validate young people by developing life skills through mentoring and media arts training.

  • The AIM-N-Inspire program is an exciting opportunity to explore and learn media at a professional level. Students can unlock their possibilities through the creative disciplines of animation, interactive gaming, media production and virtual and mixed realities.

    Expenses $545,321 · Revenue $59,764

  • Real to Reel is our annual music and arts festival that empowers youth through creative storytelling. Youth have the opportunity to see the best of local and international film submissions. Attendees can enjoy panels from accomplished guests with filmmaking expertise. The festival allows people to create and guide their filmmaking journey.

    Expenses $54,560 · Revenue $29,500

  • Registered Apprenticeship Program - RAP - designed in collaboration with industry experts, employers, and community partners. Our unique program is tailored for system-impacted youth aged 18 and over, creating a pathway to success for those with lived experience in the child welfare system. A youth apprenticeship combines on the job training with job related academic instruction in a curriculum aligned with a specific career pathway.

    Expenses $164,075 · Grants $209,643 · Revenue $75,000

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

  • Magali Lamourelle

    Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Robin Mayemura

    Vice Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Mark Larouche

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Naomi Manning

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Sydnee Stewart

    CEO

    Total calculated
    $120,000
    From this org
    $120,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    50

  • Larry Hughes

    CFO

    Total calculated
    $32,000
    From this org
    $32,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    15

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $1,043,046
    Expenses
    $1,027,685
    Contributions
    $878,278
    Grants paid
    $209,643
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $714,225
    Expenses
    $619,179
    Contributions
    $713,927
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $374,784
    Expenses
    $302,865
    Contributions
    $374,782
    Grants paid
    $0

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-EZ

    Revenue
    $180,613
    Expenses
    $188,760
    Assets (EOY)
    $65,684

  • 2020 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $141,639
    Expenses
    $121,019
    Assets (EOY)
    $80,521

  • 2019 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $92,094
    Expenses
    $76,438
    Assets (EOY)
    $25,145

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.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2018

Tax period
1 January 2018 to 31 December 2018
Principal officer
Syd Stewart
Mailing address
1626 N Wilcox Avenue Suite 2-216Los Angeles CA 90028
Website
www.betteryouth.org

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 2 November 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

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

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.