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Community Connections for Youth Inc

Through community-led alternatives to incarceration, we are on a mission to disrupt the youth prison pipeline by delivering direct support, advocacy, mentoring, training and building partnerships. Our dream is to see local communities take the lead in creating a future where no child is behind bars.

$95k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
4
Itemized grants FY2024
5
Organizations funded FY2021
60%
First-time grantees FY2021
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Itemized, FY2024
$76k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$20,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$20,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 9
FY2018 to FY2021
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$1.5M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2021, 60% of the organizations Community Connections for Youth Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 92% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 8% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $184k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21
Arts & CultureEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentEducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving4$76k50%
FY20215$200k60%
FY20202$19k50%
FY20194$52k75%
FY20189$66kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Civil Rights$189kYouth Development$58kReligion$40kEducation$29kEmployment$26kHuman Services$25kCrime & Legal$23kRecreation & Sports$17kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Highlander Research & Education Center Inc$166,25610%
Bethel Gospel Assembly Inc$39,6153n/a
Neighborhood Benches Inc$35,4003n/a
Young Urban Christians & Artists Inc$32,70039%
Peoples Advocacy Institute$23,0001n/a
Lead by Example and Reverse the Trend$20,00013%
Freedom Youth Family Justice Center Inc$17,500118%
20 20 Vision For Schools Inc$14,5201n/a
Revolutionary Fitness Inc$11,8251n/a
STEM Kids NYC$8,35013%
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All grantees of Community Connections for Youth Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Highlander Research & Education Center Inc$166,25610%
Bethel Gospel Assembly Inc$39,6153n/a
Neighborhood Benches Inc$35,4003n/a
Young Urban Christians & Artists Inc$32,70039%
Peoples Advocacy Institute$23,0001n/a
Lead by Example and Reverse the Trend$20,00013%
Freedom Youth Family Justice Center Inc$17,500118%
20 20 Vision For Schools Inc$14,5201n/a
Revolutionary Fitness Inc$11,8251n/a
STEM Kids NYC$8,35013%
Dream Dare to Revitalize Education Thru Arts & Mediation Inc$5,82511%
Community Fathers Inc$5,5001n/a
Mission Accomplished Transition Services Inc$5,50012%
Good Life Philanthropic Youth Foundation Inc$5,50012%
Youth Life Support Network Inc$5,50012%
Team Esteem on the Hill Yep Inc$5,5001n/a
Faith Hope Community Center Inc Faith Hope Community Center Inc$5,500114%
Baby Momma Association Inc$5,5001n/a

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Community Connections for Youth Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHighlander Research & Education Center Inc: $166,256 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetYoung Urban Christians & Artists Inc: $32,700 over 3y, 8.7% of budgetLead by Example and Reverse the Trend: $20,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetFreedom Youth Family Justice Center Inc: $17,500 over 1y, 18% of budgetSTEM Kids NYC: $8,350 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetDream Dare to Revitalize Education Thru Arts & Mediation Inc: $5,825 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetMission Accomplished Transition Services Inc: $5,500 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetGood Life Philanthropic Youth Foundation Inc: $5,500 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetYouth Life Support Network Inc: $5,500 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetFaith Hope Community Center Inc Faith Hope Community Center Inc: $5,500 over 1y, 14% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 10.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Pinkerton FoundationNY13.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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

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About Community Connections for Youth Inc

How much does Community Connections for Youth Inc give?
Community Connections for Youth Inc reported 4 itemized grants totaling $76,250, out of $95,201 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 9 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2021.
What does Community Connections for Youth Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Civil Rights (46%), Youth Development (14%), Religion (10%).
Who are Community Connections for Youth Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Highlander Research & Education Center Inc ($166k), Bethel Gospel Assembly Inc ($40k), Neighborhood Benches Inc ($35k).
Does Community Connections for Youth Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2021, 60% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Community Connections for Youth Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Pinkerton Foundation, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is Community Connections for Youth Inc based?
Community Connections for Youth Inc is based in NY.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 18 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $16k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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