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YOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROJECT

EIN 42-1633060 NEW ORLEANS, LA

Revenue 2024
$5,132,925
Expenses 2024
$6,162,821

Program services were 73.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
I80
Classification
1000
Street
1600 ORETHA CASTLE HALEY BLVD

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).

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.

  • SUZANNE RUSOVICH

    IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • LYNNE BURKART

    CO-PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10
  • BENJAMIN ALLEN

    CO-PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10
  • FRANCHESCA LORIO

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10
  • CALVIN JOHNSON

    PAST PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • GRETCHEN CHASE

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • ELIZABETH BOH

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10
  • SCOT CRAIG

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • KATE DEKAY

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • DONNA DEROKEY

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • MEGAN EUSTIS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • LOUIS BARTELS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • AMANDA HAMMACK

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • LAURA POLITZ

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • JOE GIARRUSSO

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • JOHN WILLIAMS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • EMILY ARATA

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • JACKIE WIELL

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • KELLY WALKER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • ANDERSON BAKER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • MEREDITH HALE-GRIFFIN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • SHELLEY MASSENGALE

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • DEANNA RODRIGUEZ

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • MELISSA SAWYER

    CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER

    Total calculated
    $458,538
    From this org
    $444,174
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $14,364
    Hours/week
    50

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $194,174
    Bonus
    $250,000
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $5,550
    Nontaxable benefits
    $8,814
    Filer's total
    $458,538
  • HAROLD HOWARD

    CHIEF DEVELOPMENT OFFICER

    Total calculated
    $117,245
    From this org
    $117,245
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    50

The first 25 listed. 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 — 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
    $5,132,925
    Expenses
    $6,162,821
    Contributions
    $3,832,361
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $5,857,303
    Expenses
    $5,979,294
    Contributions
    $4,457,835
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $6,300,467
    Expenses
    $5,699,638
    Contributions
    $4,321,643
    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.

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 10 September 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.