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SOLAR YOUTH INC

EIN 06-1600471 NEW HAVEN, CT

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Revenue 2023
$786,073
Expenses 2023
$651,801

Program services were 66.5% 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
53 WAYFARER 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 · 2023

Mission

TO EMPOWER YOUTH TO ACHIEVE LIFELONG SUCCESS.

  • STEWARD PROGRAM: SERVING CHILDREN AGED 4-14, THE AFTER-SCHOOL AND SUMMER PROGRAMS FOLLOWS A UNIQUE KIDS EXPLORE! KIDS DO! KIDS TEACH! PROGRAM MODEL, IN WHICH YOUTH INVESTIGATE THEIR SURROUNDINGS AND LEARN ABOUT THEIR NATURAL ENVIRONMENTS (KIDS EXPLORE!), DESIGN AND PERFORM COMMUNITY ACTION SERVICE PROJECTS THAT ADDRESS ISSUES IMPACTING THE OVERALL HEALTH OF PEOPLE AND THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT (KIDS DO!), AND THEN TEACH WHAT THEY HAVE LEARNED AND ACCOMPLISHED TO THEIR COMMUNITY (KIDS TEACH!). HIGH-SCHOOL-AGED YOUTH EDUCATOR INTERNS, WHO SERVE AS ROLE MODELS FOR THE YOUNGER CHILDREN, WORK COLLABORATIVELY WITH PROGRAM STAFF AS THEY LEARN LEADERSHIP AND GENERAL EMPLOYABILITY SKILLS. IN FISCAL YEAR 2023-24, 139 UNIQUE YOUTH WERE SERVED IN ADDITION TO 23 YOUTH EDUCATOR INTERNS.

    Expenses $376,296

  • GREEN JOBS YOUTH DEVELOPMENT: ONCE IN HIGH SCHOOL, YOUTH CAN APPLY TO BECOME PAID INTERNS. GREEN JOBS APPRENTICES LEARN CONCRETE SKILLS ASSOCIATED WITH CARRYING OUT COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS THAT THEY DESIGN. THEY ALSO BUILD SKILLS FOR GENERAL EMPLOYABILITY SUCH AS CRITICAL PROBLEM-SOLVING, COMMUNICATION AND WORKING IN GROUPS. IN FISCAL YEAR 2023-2024, SOLAR YOUTH HAD 35 GREEN JOBS APPRENTICES.

    Expenses $57,210

As filed on the 2023 return.

Officers and directors · 2023

As listed in Part VII of the 2023 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Lisa Stanger

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Terry Setzer

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Corinne Castro

    VICE-CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Michael Felberbaum

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jennifer Milikowsky

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Maria Gomez

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Candace Wright

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $109,002
    From this org
    $88,237
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $20,765
    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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2023
    Revenue
    $786,073
    Expenses
    $651,801
    Contributions
    $786,867
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $634,173
    Expenses
    $519,804
    Contributions
    $633,421
    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
    $561,975
    Expenses
    $705,261
    Assets (EOY)
    $317,900

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $804,233
    Expenses
    $792,423
    Assets (EOY)
    $466,207

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $732,698
    Expenses
    $677,447
    Assets (EOY)
    $446,041

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $587,591
    Expenses
    $575,491
    Assets (EOY)
    $310,937

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $668,963
    Expenses
    $670,946
    Assets (EOY)
    $296,003

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $786,299
    Expenses
    $712,357
    Assets (EOY)
    $316,799

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $753,845
    Expenses
    $797,887
    Assets (EOY)
    $318,997

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

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 2023, the newest we have parsed for this organization.