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AYA YOUTH COLLECTIVE

EIN 46-2391112 GRAND RAPIDS, MI

Revenue 2024
$5,087,751
Expenses 2024
$4,256,152

Program services were 83.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
L40
Classification
1200
Street
320 STATE ST SE

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 CREATE COMMUNITIES, ROOTED IN BELONGING, FOR YOUTH EXPERIENCING INSTABILITY TO OWN THEIR FUTURE.

  • AYA (AS YOU ARE) YOUTH COLLECTIVE IS A 501C3 THAT SUPPORTS YOUTH AGES 14-24 EXPERIENCING INSTABILITY IN ACHIEVING THEIR FULL POTENTIAL BY CREATING COMMUNITY AND BELONGING. MORE SPECIFICALLY, AYA FACILITATES YOUTH DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES THROUGH LOW-BARRIER ACCESS TO MENTAL HEALTH, WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT, HOUSING, CRISIS STABILITY, CASE MANAGEMENT SUPPORT, COMMUNITY REFERRALS, FINANCIAL LITERACY TRAINING, ACCESS TO MEDICAL AND DENTAL CARE, VITAL DOCUMENT RECOVERY, AND MUCH MORE.

    Expenses $3,531,868 · Grants $469,465 · Revenue $54,477

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.

  • Lauren Vankeulen

    CEO

    Total calculated
    $198,672
    From this org
    $189,357
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $9,315
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $114,357
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    $75,000
    Deferred
    not reported
    Nontaxable benefits
    $9,315
    Filer's total
    $198,672

  • Missy Jackson

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Micalah Webster

    VICE PRESIDE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Corinne Curtis

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Todd Vanharen

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Shawn Perdue

    BOARD DIRECT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Marcos Esparza

    BOARD DIRECT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Julius Lema

    BOARD DIRECT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Kat Burdine

    BOARD DIRECT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Shannon Cunningham

    BOARD DIRECT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Jeremy Payne

    BOARD DIRECT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Alexander Torres

    BOARD DIRECT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Dl McKinney

    BOARD DIRECT

    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. 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
    $5,087,751
    Expenses
    $4,256,152
    Contributions
    $5,015,218
    Grants paid
    $469,465
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $4,041,327
    Expenses
    $3,616,843
    Contributions
    $3,970,551
    Grants paid
    $204,047
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,211,050
    Expenses
    $2,243,444
    Contributions
    $2,191,846
    Grants paid
    $28,299

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
    $2,215,318
    Expenses
    $2,188,536
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,689,480

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,818,507
    Expenses
    $1,666,479
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,514,324

  • 2020 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $455,627
    Expenses
    $419,181
    Assets (EOY)
    $739,970

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $410,826
    Expenses
    $316,558
    Assets (EOY)
    $758,975

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $410,826
    Expenses
    $316,558
    Assets (EOY)
    $758,975

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $334,411
    Expenses
    $248,074
    Assets (EOY)
    $658,348

  • 2015 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $48,296
    Expenses
    $37,305
    Assets (EOY)
    $87,055

  • 2014 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $23,063
    Expenses
    $14,649
    Assets (EOY)
    $77,446

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

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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 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.