YOUTH SPEAKS INC

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

O50

Classification

1000

Street

265 SHOTWELL 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

• NATIONAL & FIELD BUILDING PROGRAMS - (1) BRAVE NEW VOICES -- YOUTHSPEAKS FIRST FOUNDED THE BRAVE NEW VOICES (OR "BNV") FESTIVAL AS THENATIONAL YOUTH POETRY SLAM IN 1998, AFTER THE SUCCESS OF THE LOCAL WORKIN THE BAY AREA. THE FIRST SLAM HAD FOUR TEAMS; WE NOW HAVE 55COMPETING TEAMS AND FIVE TO TEN NON-COMPETING TEAMS JOIN US EACH YEAR.BNV IS ABOUT BRINGING TOGETHER YOUNG POETS FROM ACROSS THE GLOBE SOTHAT THEY CAN CREATE NEW PATHWAYS TOWARD ARTISTIC GROWTH, CIVICENGAGEMENT, AND YOUTH DEVELOPMENT. BNV TAKES PLACE IN A DIFFERENT CITYEACH YEAR, AND REACHES UP TO 200,000 PEOPLE EACH FESTIVAL. BEGINNING INFY14, THE PROGRAM WAS EXPANDED TO INCLUDE THE BNV NETWORK INITIATIVE, ACOMPREHENSIVE MULTI-YEAR INITIATIVE TO SUPPORT PROGRAMS ANDORGANIZATIONS IN THE FIELD OF ARTS EDUCATION AND YOUTH DEVELOPMENT THROUGH GRANTS, CONSULTING SERVICES, FELLOWSHIPS, AND OTHER RESOURCES,FROM WITHIN THE EXISTING BNV NETWORK AND BEYOND, TO BECOME STRONGER,MORE SUSTAINABLE, AND MORE IMPACTFUL ORGANIZATIONS. (2) THE BIGGERPICTURE IS A COLLABORATION BETWEEN YOUTH SPEAKS, AND THE UNIVERSITY OFCALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO CENTER FOR VULNERABLE POPULATIONS DESIGNED TOCOMBAT THE RISING EPIDEMIC OF TYPE 2 DIABETES BY EMPOWERING YOUTH TOCHANGE THE CONVERSATION ABOUT THE DISEASE, AND WORK TO CHANGE THESOCIAL, CULTURAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS THAT HAVE LED TO ITS SPREAD,IN THE BAY AREA AND THROUGHOUT CALIFORNIA. WE AIM TO INSPIRE YOUNGPEOPLE TO CHALLENGE AND NAME THE INSTITUTIONAL, ENVIRONMENTAL ANDSOCIAL CAUSES OF TYPE 2 DIABETES. IT IS OUR HOPE THAT BY RAISING THEIRVOICE, TAKING ACTION AND JOINING THE CONVERSATION, THEY WILL INEVITABLYALTER THE TRAJECTORY OF THE DISEASE, AND PROVIDE YOUTH WITH A VIRTUALPLATFORM, AND REAL LIFE PERFORMANCE OPPORTUNITIES FOR THEIR STORIES TOBE HEARD. (3) LIFE IS LIVING IS A COLLABORATIVE COMMUNITY-BASED PROJECTTHAT TESTS IDEAS ABOUT ENGAGING YOUTH, PRESENTING PUBLIC ART, FOSTERINGLITERACY AND STORYTELLING, DEVELOPING ARTS AUDIENCES, ESTABLISHINGNON-TRADITIONAL PARTNERSHIPS, TRANSFORMING THE ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICEMOVEMENT, AND CATALYZING COMMUNITY-BUILDING.

  Expenses $2,518,503

• BAY AREA PROGRAMS - EVERY TIME A THOUGHT IS PUT INTO WORDS, IT IS A CREATIVE ACT (THUS THE TERM, LANGUAGE ARTS). THE SAME WAY A STUDENT RECOGNIZES AND IS ABLE TO PRACTICE VISUAL ARTS BY LEARNING IMAGES, DRAWING, PAINTING, AND/OR SCULPTING, A PERSON'S LANGUAGE SKILLS EXPAND THE MORE S/HE COMMUNICATES IDEAS, PROBLEMS, FEELINGS, AND SOLUTIONS. OUR LOCAL PROGRAMMING SITS AT THE CORE OF YOUTH SPEAKS. PROGRAMS SUCH AS OUR AFTER SCHOOL WORKSHOPS, IN-SCHOOL RESIDENCIES, UNCER 21 OPEN MIC, BRINGING THE NOISE FOR MARTIN LUTHER KING JR., TEEN POETRY SLAM, UNIFIED DISTRICT POETRY CLAM, OAKLAND POET LAUREATE, QUEERIOSITY AND MC OLYMPICS, FULLY EMBODY OUR UNIQUE PEDAGOGY WHICH COMBINES ARTS EDUCATION, YOUTH DEVELOPMENT, PERFORMANCE AND CIVIC ENGAGEMENT. WE BELIEVE THAT OUR STRENGTH AS A NATIONAL LEADER IS INTRINSICALLY CONNECTED TO THE DEPTH AND EXCELLENCE OF OUR CORE LOCAL PROGRAMS AND PEDAGOGY. YOUTH SPEAKS IS ALSO ACTIVELY CREATING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES AND PATHWAYS AS PART OF BAY AREA PROGRAM. WE DEVELOPED THE FIRST SOUND INSTITUTE IN COLLABORATION WITH THE UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCO SCHOOL OF EDUCATION, TO BRING TOGETHER ARTISTS AND SECONDARY EDUCATORS FROM ACROSS THE BAY AREA AND BEYOND TO PROVIDE INSIGHT INTO OUR PEDAGOGY, OUR PHILOSOPHICAL UNDERPINNINGS OF OUR YOUTH DEVELOPMENT, AND OUR ARTS DEVELOPMENT PRACTICES.

  Expenses $353,361

• THEATER PROGRAM - YOUTH SPEAKS THEATER PROGRAM IS COMMITTED TO PRODUCING LITERARY PERFORMANCE IN THE VERSE OF OUR TIME. AESTHETICALLY URBAN, PEDAGOGICALLY FREIREAN, OUR THEATER PROGRAM DERIVES PERSONAL PERFORMED NARRATIVES OUT OF INTERDISCIPLINARY COLLABORATION. THOUGH ITS METHODOLOGY INCLUDES DANCE, MUSIC, AND FILM, THE COMPANY'S EMPHASIS IS SPOKEN STORYTELLING.WE SUPPORT THE CREATION OF VERSE-BASED WORK THAT IS SPOKEN THROUGH THE BODY, ILLUSTRATED BY VISUAL AND SONIC SCORES, AND IN COMMUNICATION WITH THE IMPORTANT SOCIAL ISSUES AND MOVEMENTS OF THE IMMEDIATE MOMENT. YOUTH SPEAKS THEATER PROGRAM IS ALSO CENTRALLY FOCUSED ON SUPPORTING THE NEXT GENERATION OF THEATER ARTISTS, TECHNICAL PERSONNEL AND LEADERS, INCLUDING WRITERS, DIRECTORS, PERFORMERS AND PRODUCERS, THROUGH OUR EMERGING ARTISTS FELLOWSHIP. EMERGING ARTISTS FELLOWS ARE ALUMNI OF YOUTH SPEAKS YOUTH PROGRAMS AND THE BRAVE NEW VOICES NETWORK.

  Expenses $101,432

As filed on the 2023 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

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

• 2023

  Revenue

  $2,520,230

  Expenses

  $3,899,960

  Contributions

  $2,282,818

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2022

  Revenue

  $5,083,905

  Expenses

  $2,936,682

  Contributions

  $4,833,242

  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

  $2,831,645

  Expenses

  $3,890,868

  Assets (EOY)

  $5,047,445

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $7,595,998

  Expenses

  $1,881,568

  Assets (EOY)

  $6,788,247

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,971,751

  Expenses

  $2,407,566

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,159,868

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $3,246,927

  Expenses

  $3,233,983

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,214,267

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $4,739,000

  Expenses

  $5,714,472

  Assets (EOY)

  $2,576,787

• 2015 · 990

  Revenue

  $3,652,745

  Expenses

  $5,079,693

  Assets (EOY)

  $3,411,330

• 2014 · 990

  Revenue

  $6,973,851

  Expenses

  $7,459,672

  Assets (EOY)

  $6,269,735

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

• BATTERY FOUNDATION

  $181,870

  2023 · GENERAL SUPPORT

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $153,300

  2024 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $138,750

  2022 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $130,050

  2023 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION

  $93,000

  2024 · FOR GENERAL SUPPORT

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $77,500

  2024 · HUMAN SERVICES

• FORGOOD INC

  $51,269

  2023 · UNRESTRICTED

• EAST BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

  $50,000

  2022 · WRITING OAKLAND FUTURES, ARTS & CULTURE SUPPORT, LIFE IS LIVING FESTIVAL, WRITING OAKLAND FUTURES

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $45,400

  2023 · HUMAN SERVICES

• FORGOOD INC

  $43,367

  2022 · UNRESTRICTED

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

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