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CHALLENGE PROGRAM

EIN 51-0386369 WILMINGTON, DE

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Revenue 2024
$2,399,544
Expenses 2024
$2,081,000

Program services were 87.5% 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
1124 E 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).

Other organizations at this address

1 other organization in the IRS Business Master File lists the same street address. matched by us

We match the street line and ZIP code as the IRS gives them, ignoring case and outer spaces and nothing else, so "AVE" and "AVENUE" count as different streets and this list can miss some. A shared address can mean related organizations or a shared office, but it can also be a registered agent, a mail drop or a service provider holding mail for unrelated clients. It is not, by itself, evidence that two organizations are connected.

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

OUR MISSION IS TO PROVIDE VOCATIONAL TRAINING FOR DELAWARE'S AT-RISK YOUTH TO EMPOWER THEM WITH THE CONFIDENCE, SKILLS AND PURPOSE NEEDED TO BECOME PRODUCTIVE MEMBERS OF SOCIETY. SINCE 1995, THE CHALLENGE PROGRAM HAS OFFERED YOUNG PEOPLE THE OPPORTUNITY TO LEARN VALUABLE CONSTRUCTION SKILLS, ASSISTANCE IN EARNING A HIGH SCHOOL DIPLOMA OR GED AND JOB PLACEMENT SERVICES.

  • OUR MISSION IS TO PROVIDE VOCATIONAL TRAINING FOR DELAWARE'S AT-RISK YOUTH TO EMPOWER THEM WITH THE CONFIDENCE, SKILLS AND PURPOSE NEEDED TO BECOME PRODUCTIVE MEMBERS OF SOCIETY. SINCE 1995, THE CHALLENGE PROGRAM HAS OFFERED YOUNG PEOPLE THE OPPORTUNITY TO LEARN VALUABLE CONSTRUCTION SKILLS, ASSISTANCE IN EARNING A HIGH SCHOOL DIPLOMA OR GED AND JOB PLACEMENT.

    Expenses $1,821,089 · Revenue $569,407

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.

  • Charles Copeland

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Lisa Gannon

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Alan D Graham Jr

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Kim Ilardi

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Richard Julian

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Sean Murray

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Heather Palmer

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Zach Phillips

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Charles Potter

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Jocelyn Pugh

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Andrew McKnight

    EXECUTIVE DI

    Total calculated
    $95,827
    From this org
    $95,827
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    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

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $2,399,544
    Expenses
    $2,081,000
    Contributions
    $1,751,162
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,403,309
    Expenses
    $1,841,148
    Contributions
    $1,638,381
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $3,048,849
    Expenses
    $1,936,781
    Contributions
    $2,536,980
    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
    $2,231,760
    Expenses
    $1,733,323
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,180,942
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,892,437
    Expenses
    $1,942,072
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,716,217
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,796,120
    Expenses
    $2,214,050
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,899,346
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,035,356
    Expenses
    $2,262,356
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,010,939
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,637,356
    Expenses
    $1,749,964
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,211,653
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,424,509
    Expenses
    $1,296,576
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,452,774
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,103,591
    Expenses
    $1,211,718
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,368,843
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,156,047
    Expenses
    $981,120
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,201,164
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,092,830
    Expenses
    $998,611
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,050,023
  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $1,099,761
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,066,256

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

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

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.