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Alternatives for Youth Foundation Inc

To provide support for programs and activities consistent with the mission of the key program incorporated, a public charity exempt under section 501(c)(3) of the irc.

$581k
Granted FY2025still arriving
16
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.

Human Services$1.2MYouth Development$82kHousing & Shelter$50kCommunity Improvement$30kFood & Nutrition$20kArts & Culture$10kAnimals$10kHealth$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 16 grants below total $160,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $580,960 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $420,960 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$45M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HOUSING ASSISTANCE CORP$10,000
LOVE YOUR LABELS$10,000
RI COMMUNITY FOOD BANK$10,000
CATIE'S CLOSET$10,000
THE JASON HAYES FOUNDATION$10,000
GROUNDWORK SOUTHCOAST$10,000
THE CHRISTIAN CENTER$10,000
REFUGEE DREAM CENTER$10,000
COMMUNITY GIVING TREE$10,000
WORCESTER YOUTH CENTER$10,000
INDEPENDENCE HOUSE$10,000
BERKSHIRE DREAM CENTER$10,000
FISHING FRIENDS$10,000
THE NETWORK LA RED$10,000
LAZARUS HOUSE MINISTRIES$10,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

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Your human-services grants (FY19–25, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%THE KEY PROGRAM INC: $1.0M → 8%BERKSHIRE DREAM CENTER: $10k → 12%WONDERFUND MA: $5k → 16%FEDERAL HILL HOUSE: $10k → 14%INDEPENDENCE HOUSE: $10k → 8%THE KEY PROGRAM INC: $25k → 8%COMMUNITY SERVICE OF NEWBURYPORT: $10k → 10%IMMIGRANTS ASSISTANCE CENTER: $10k → 11%THE SOUTH END COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 17%THE JASON HAYES FOUNDATION: $10k → 8%WINDRUSH FARM THERAPEUTIC EQUITATION INC: $10k → 10%FRIENDLY HOUSE- YOUTH: $10k → 11%REFUGEE DREAM CENTER: $10k → 14%CATIE'S CLOSET: $10k → 8%SHARED LIVING COLLABORATIVE MERRIMAC: $10k → 10%RISE ABOVE: $10k → 11%COMMUNITY GIVING TREE: $10k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
New Bedford Women's Center Inc

To empower and support positive choices for all and to educate and take action in the community for the prevention of oppression and violence.

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2
Massachusetts Fair Housing Center Inc

Mfhc is committed to ending systemic housing discrimination and creating inclusive communities through education, outreach, advocacy, housing counseling and enforcement.

Housing & Shelter
3
Wayside Youth and Family Support Network Inc

Empowering children, young adults and families to achieve greater independence and emotional well-being.

Human Services
4
Sojourner House Inc

Sojourner house is a shelter of hope for families;providing a circle of support and empowering them towards independence.

Housing & Shelter
5
Leander House Inc

Assist people with disabilities

Health
6
Brookview House Inc

Brookview's mission is to help homeless and at risk families learn the skills necessary to break the cycle of homelessness and poverty.

Human Services
7
Worcester Youth and Family Counseling Services Inc

Worcester youth and family services empowers all people, of all ages, toward leading capable, purposeful, responsible, fulfilled lives in healthy families and communities.

Human Services
8
Transition House Inc

Transition house is a human services agency dedicated to preventing and ending domestic violence. the agency provides a continuum of housing resources and holistic support for survivors of violence and their children, as well as prevention…

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9
Edward Street Child Services Inc

Collaborates to improve the quality and impact of early education and care, enhancing the development of young children and strengthening families in central massachusetts.

Environment
10
Worcester Community Action Council Inc

The mission of the worcester community action council, inc. is helping people move to economic self-sufficiency through programs, partnerships, and advocacy.

Human Services
11
Massachusetts Affordable Housing Alliance Inc

Maha breaks down barriers facing first-time and first-generation home buyers and owners through education, counseling, advocacy, and grassroots organizing.

Housing & Shelter
12
House of Hope Housing Inc

To promote improved social and economic conditions of families who are or who have recently been homeless; to promote, develop, and manage affordable housing for families and to assist in carrying out the charitable purposes of house of…

Housing & Shelter

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Key Program Incorporated and the most unlike its peers is The Jason Hayes Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%5%<5yr14%5%5–10yr20%30%10–20yr19%19%20–35yr13%24%35–55yr15%16%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%1%<5yr14%1%5–10yr20%8%10–20yr19%5%20–35yr13%80%35–55yr15%4%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/41
the rest of the field
11%
3,577/33,361

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

40 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 40 of the 41 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
39/40
Grantees still filing
12/40
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE KEY PROGRAM INCORPORATED — $1,046,000 · Human ServicesTHE KEY PROGRAM INCORPORATED+15 more — $145,000 · Human Services+15 moreRODMAN RIDE FOR KIDS — $12,000 · OtherGroundwork Southcoast Inc — $10,000 · OtherLAWRENCE COMMUNITYWORKS INC — $10,000 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF WORCESTER INC — $10,000 · OtherPATHWAYS FOR CHANGE INC — $10,000 · OtherROBERT F KENNEDY CHILDREN'S ACTION CORPS INC — $7,500 · OtherGIFTS TO GIVE INC — $10,000 · OtherDUFFY HEALTH CENTER INC — $10,000 · OtherWORCESTER AREA MISSION SOCIETY UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST — $10,000 · OtherDONT FORGET US PET US A NON PROFIT CORPORATION — $10,000 · OtherRHODE ISLAND COALITION FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES EDUCATION FUND INC — $9,000 · OtherGirls on the Run - Western MA Council — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentFISHING FRIENDS INC — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentWORCESTER YOUTH CENTER INC — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentGLADYS ALLEN BRIGHAM COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentMethuen Arlington Neighborhood Inc — $10,000 · Community ImprovementLOVE YOUR LABELS INC — $10,000 · Community ImprovementNEW ENGLAND WOMEN'S SUPPORT INC — $10,000 · Community ImprovementLAZARUS HOUSE INC — $10,000 · Housing & ShelterHOUSING ASSISTANCE CORPORATION — $10,000 · Housing & ShelterABBY KELLEY FOSTER HOUSE INC — $10,000 · Housing & ShelterRHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION — $10,000 · Food & NutritionPROJECT HAND UP — $10,000 · Food & NutritionWestborough Connects Inc — $10,000 · Arts & CultureZEITERION THEATRE INC — $10,000 · Arts & Culture
Human Services$1,191,000Other$108,500Youth Development$40,000Community Improvement$30,000Housing & Shelter$30,000Food & Nutrition$20,000Arts & Culture$20,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE KEY PROGRAM INCORPORATED — $1,046,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetSouth End Community Center of Spfld Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetGroundwork Southcoast Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFRIENDLY HOUSE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMethuen Arlington Neighborhood Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetRefugee Development Center — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetRHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGIFTS TO GIVE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetGirls on the Run - Western MA Council — $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetLAZARUS HOUSE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT HAND UP — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetDUFFY HEALTH CENTER INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFISHING FRIENDS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetWestborough Connects Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetBERKSHIRE DREAM CENTER INC — $10,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetINDEPENDENCE HOUSE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNEW ENGLAND WOMEN'S SUPPORT INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFEDERAL HILL HOUSE ASSOCIATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetZEITERION THEATRE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLAWRENCE COMMUNITYWORKS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF WORCESTER INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHOUSING ASSISTANCE CORPORATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetABBY KELLEY FOSTER HOUSE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Shared Living Collaborative Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPATHWAYS FOR CHANGE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWINDRUSH FARM THERAPEUTIC EQUITATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCommunity Service of Newburyport Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY GIVING TREE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetGLADYS ALLEN BRIGHAM COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRISE ABOVE FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetDONT FORGET US PET US A NON PROFIT CORPORATION — $10,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetIMMIGRANTS' ASSISTANCE CENTER INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetROBERT F KENNEDY CHILDREN'S ACTION CORPS INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS WONDERFUND INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Eastern Bank Foundati…Greater Worcester Com…Rockland Trust Charit…Boston Foundation IncEversource Energy Fou…Spectrum Health Syste…Webster Five Foundati…Essex County Communit…Cummings Foundation G…Arbella Insurance Fou…First Citizens Charit…The Fred Harris Danie…
Eastern Bank FoundationMA27.7× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Eastern Bank Foundation · Greater Worcester Community Foundation Inc · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Eversource Energy Foundation Inc · Spectrum Health Systems Inc · Webster Five Foundation Inc · Essex County Community Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Arbella Insurance Foundation · First Citizens Charitable Foundation Inc · The Fred Harris Daniels Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Alternatives for Youth Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 110%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • The Key Program Incorporated — 86% of income from government
  • Pathways for Change Inc — 86% of income from government
  • Independence House Inc — 85% of income from government
  • Worcester Youth Center Inc — 64% of income from government
  • Duffy Health Center Inc — 51% of income from government
  • Gladys Allen Brigham Community Center Inc — 40% of income from government
  • Immigrants' Assistance Center Inc — 14% of income from government
  • Rise Above Foundation Inc — 14% of income from government
  • Housing Assistance Corporation — 10% of income from government
  • South End Community Center of Spfld Inc — 9% of income from government
  • Lawrence Communityworks Inc — 9% of income from government
  • Friendly House Inc — 8% of income from government
  • Berkshire Dream Center Inc — 7% of income from government
  • Zeiterion Theatre Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Catie's Closet Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Boys and Girls Club of Worcester Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Lazarus House Inc — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
11get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
5rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

04Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Alternatives for Youth Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Alternatives for Youth Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 41 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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