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YOUNG ACTORS GUILD INC

EIN 62-1813001 MEMPHIS, TN

Largest nonprofits in Tennessee

Revenue 2025
$525,559
Expenses 2025
$476,426

Program services were 93.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B90
Classification
1200
Street
619 N 7TH ST

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 · 2025

Mission

ARTS ENGAGEMENT THROUGH YOUNG ACTORS GUILD POSITIVELY IMPACTS STUDENTS ACROSS ACADEMIC, SOCIAL, AND EMOTIONAL DOMAINS. PARTICIPATION IN STRUCTURED YAG PERFORMING ARTS PROGRAMS HAS SHOWN: IMPROVED LITERACY, MATH ENGAGEMENT, AND CRITICAL THINKING REDUCED DISCIPLINARY INCIDENTS AND INCREASE SCHOOL ATTENDANCE STRENGTHENED EMOTIONAL REGULATION, TEAMWORK, AND LEADERSHIP SKILLS PROVIDE TRAUMA-INFORMED OUTLETS FOR EXPRESSION AND HEALING FOR STUDENTS ENGAGED IN YAG, THE ARTS CAN SERVE AS A STABILIZING FORCEOFFERING CONSISTENCY, MENTORSHIP, AND PURPOSE DURING NON-SCHOOL HOURS. CREATES SAFE, SUPERVISED SPACES DURING PEAK UNSUPERVISED HOURS REINFORCES POSITIVE RELATIONSHIPS WITH CARING ADULTS AND MENTORS ELEVATES STUDENT VOICE AND CULTURAL IDENTITY STRENGTHENS SCHOOL-COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS THE ACADEMY LEVERAGES COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS, ENSURING ACCESSIBILITY AND FAMILIARITY FOR STUDENTS AND FAMILIES.

Activities or mission (Part I)

SUPPORTING ARTS EDUCATION THROUGHOUT MEMPHIS AND SHELBY COUNTY

  • FOUNDER CHRYSTI CHANDLER RECEIVED THE 2026 HUMANITARIAN AWARD FROM THE MEMPHIS CITY COUNCIL FOUNDER CHRYSTI CHANDLER NAMED A WOMEN OF PASSION BY THE WOMENS FOUNDATION FOUNDER CHRYSTI CHANDLER HONORED BY THE COMMERCIAL APPEAL TOP 10 PEOPLE WHO MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN MEMPHIS YAG ALUMNI - MUSICIAN CHARLES STREETER WHOS PLAYED WITH CHAKA KHAN, J. LO, AND PRINCE YAG ALUMNI - SHE STREET WHOS DANCED WITH MISSEY ELLIOT AND AT THE SUPER BOWL YAG ALUMNI - GEDEON MCKINNEY FROM AMERICAN IDOL YAG ALUMNI - ALEXIS GRACE FROM AMERICAN IDOL YAG ALUMNI - LIL BUCK FROM SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE, SUPER BOWL, AND LEXUS AND APPLE COMMERCIALS YAG EVVIE MCKINNEY WINNER OF THE FOUR AND MOTOWN RECORDING ARTIST, YAG ALUMNI - JAYLON HUNTER DISNEY AND BROADWAYS LION KING, BROADWAYS MJ THE MUSICAL YAG ALUMNI - JOSHUA STRONG / MYA HAWKINS ACCEPTED INTO JOFFREY BALLET YAG HAS A 98 GRADUATION RATE FROM COLLEGE YAG STUDENTS HAVE PERFORMED FOR FORMER VICE PRESIDENT KAMAL HARRIS, FORMER PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON, ALVIN AILEY, DANCE THEATRE OF HARLEM, AND THE APOLLO THEATR

    Expenses $488,325 · Grants $280,808 · Revenue $525,559

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

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Chrysti Chandler

    PRESIDENT CEO

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    8

  • Sabrina Norwood

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    6

  • Tyronne Currie

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Melanie Taylor

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0

  • Tenela Blakney

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Lou Evans

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Traci Kolheim

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Ashunfra Barnes

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Cryselle Jones

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

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

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $525,559
    Expenses
    $476,426
    Contributions
    $280,808
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $520,978
    Expenses
    $489,445
    Contributions
    $299,934
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $555,494
    Expenses
    $475,108
    Contributions
    $198,940
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $513,043
    Expenses
    $366,613
    Contributions
    $184,239
    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

    Revenue
    $391,184
    Expenses
    $386,150
    Assets (EOY)
    $0

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $391,184
    Expenses
    $386,150
    Assets (EOY)
    $0

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $398,355
    Expenses
    $396,787
    Assets (EOY)
    $0

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $612,918
    Expenses
    $311,705
    Assets (EOY)
    $383,060

  • 2017 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $23,400
    Expenses
    $19,260
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,350

  • 2016 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $82,500
    Expenses
    $82,410
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,500

  • 2015 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $46,180
    Expenses
    $45,360
    Assets (EOY)
    $0

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.

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

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

  • Exemption revoked 15 May 2010, reinstated 15 May 2010.

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 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.