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SOAR FOR YOUTH

EIN 26-4425202 BERKELEY, CA

Revenue 2025
$717,410
Expenses 2025
$628,533

Program services were 77.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
P32
Classification
2000
Street
PO BOX 1291

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

In community partnership with UC Berkeley, SOAR helps Bay Area foster youth aged 11-21 move through adolescence and into their adult lives with independence. We teach, coach, and counsel our young people in academics, leadership, life skills, and emotional intelligence. We provide them with activities that build trust, promote teamwork, and enhance self-esteem. The SOAR program aims to help our young people graduate from high school, attend college, and succeed in life with purpose.

  • Summer Precollegiate Academics: In 2025 SOAR hosted five one-week residential Summer Academies on the UC Berkeley campus (Prepare To SOAR, Learn To SOAR, Time To SOAR, SOAR To College, and SOAR to Vocation). We selected a new cohort of 15 middle schooler to attend the Prepare To SOAR Academy and welcomed our program alumni to attend the SOAR To Vocation Academy which was launched in 2024 to provide opportunities and exposure to our youths who may not find themselves on a path to college degree. We adjusted our program offerings to match our youth's learning abilities. Several youths were not able to return to attend their Learn To SOAR or Time To SOAR Academies due to relocation, summer school, and personal reasons. So we were elated when three students who had not attended their Summer Academies for the last two or three years returned to attend their final Academy - SOAR To Your Future (Week one is SOAR To College and Week two SOAR To Vocation).All Academy participates (100%) said they would recommend SOAR to other foster youth. All of them also said that the knowledge and experience they gained at SOAR will help them achieve greater academic success and build their future.Forty Nine (49) foster youths (including Jr. Counselors) benefited from the life-changing Summer Pre-collegiate Academies we offered in 2025.

    Expenses $275,657

  • School Year Academic Support (Foster Youth Academic Support): Our Academic Advocates are trained and supported to help their advisees stay on track academically and work through personal and emotional challenges. The individualized advocacy for each youth includes weekly grade checks, monthly school visits, tutoring, regular group outings with other SOAR youths and Advocates, and college plus scholarship application assistance. 82% of our youths graduated from high school on time in 2025; we expected 80%.Cumulatively, 98% of our youths graduated from high school and 86% have gone on to college in comparison to the national average of 50% and 10% respectively. 68% of SOAR 4-year college students have graduated, compared to the national average of 3-4% of foster youth attending all colleges.

    Expenses $57,272

  • Summer Internship Program: 12 SOAR high achievers worked as summer interns for 6-8 weeks in various Bay Area locations. The employers, selected to honor these youths' passion and career goals, included: Buchanan Dentist, Delta Humane Society Stockton, Holistic Hyperbaric Clinic, Superior Court of California, County of Alameda, Walsh Vineyards.In summary, with uncompromising support from SOAR 126 foster youths learned, grew, and thrived during the tax reporting period (January 1-December 31, 2025). SOAR is grateful for the tremendous financial and volunteer support that helped make it all happen.

    Expenses $71,189

  • Expenses $82,357

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.

  • Diana Brown

    Director/President & Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    60

  • Kem Robinson

    Director/Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    14

  • Libby Colman

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

  • Leticia Galyean

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Michelle D Young

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Denise Fuller

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Beth Luke

    Director/Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    12

  • Linda Burton

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

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
    $717,410
    Expenses
    $628,533
    Contributions
    $667,443
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $758,049
    Expenses
    $547,394
    Contributions
    $716,498
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $790,600
    Expenses
    $573,705
    Contributions
    $764,812
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $568,497
    Expenses
    $370,159
    Contributions
    $566,498
    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
    $565,181
    Expenses
    $313,468
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,064,306

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $461,529
    Expenses
    $316,401
    Assets (EOY)
    $817,692

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 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.