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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.

$95k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 4 grants below total $76,250, the rows itemized in this filing. The $95,201 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $18,951 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$20,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LEAD BY EXAMPLE AND REVERSE THE TREND INC$20,000
NEIGHBORHOOD BENCHES INC$20,000
YOUNG URBAN CHRISTIANS & ARTISTS INC (YUCA)$18,750
FREEDOM YOUTH FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER INC$17,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $23k) land where the poverty rate runs at 24%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 76% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 15%COMMUNITY FATHERS INC: $6k → 12%FREEDOM YOUTH FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER INC: $18k → 28%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

26%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$108k · 3 repeat orgs$306k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +169% since the first grant, against +93% for those funded once.

3 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
13

Total granted

$108k
$268k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+169%
+93%

Still filing today

33%
69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $38k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’24
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentEnvironmentEmploymentOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • BG
    BETHEL GOSPEL ASSEMBLY INC
    3× · 2018–2020 · $40k
  • NB
    Neighborhood Benches Inc
    3× · 2020–2024 · $35k
  • YU
    YOUNG URBAN CHRISTIANS & ARTISTS INC
    3× · 2019–2024 · $33k · revenue +169%

Funded once

  • HIGHLANDER RESEARCH & EDUCATION CENTER INC
    one grant, 2021 · $166k · revenue -30%
  • PA
    PEOPLES ADVOCACY INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2019 · $23k · revenue -73%
  • 22
    20 20 Vision For Schools Incgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue +181%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Better Youth Inc

We provide access, equity, and validation to foster and system impacted youth creatives ages 16-24 through media arts programming and mentoring helping them bridge the digital divide and develop their creative confidence, upleveling our…

Youth Development
2
Resources Inspiring Success and Empowering

To bridge the disparity gap between the transitioning youth and their community through education, mentoring, awareness and advocacy.

Human Services
3
Urban Youth Ministry of Greater Indianapolis Inc

Youth

—
4
Tomorrows Leaders Nyc

TLNYCs mission is to help students and community members overcome social, emotional, and academic challenges to become positive and productive leaders of their community.

Youth Development
5
Youth Impact Alliance

Empowers young individuals

Youth Development
6
Stroud Development Group

We are a Youth Mentoring program

—
7
Catalyst Global Youth Initiatives

Mentoring and academic enrichment

Public Benefit
8
New City Networks

New City Networks exists to bring whole life transformation to under-resourced youth in the US and globally. In the US we operate two full leadership development programs that employ over 60 youth 200 days a year.

Youth Development
9
Pursuit of Prosperity Strategies Program Inc

Working with trouble youth

Youth Development
10
Center for Youth Development Through Law

The mission of Center for Youth Development through Law is to inspire and prepare youth from first-generation and disadvantaged backgrounds to thrive academically, achieve fulfilling careers, and be civically engaged community members and…

Employment
11
Youth Activism Project

The Youth Activism Project teaches teens movement-building skills to make policy impact at all levels of government. We envision a world in which youth activism is the norm, not the exception. We know that even though many young people are…

Youth Development
12
Youth Justice Network Inc

Youth Justice Network (YJN)s mission is to break cycles of incarceration and build an equitable justice system by providing young people with individualized advocacy, mentorship, and opportunities to grow, thrive, and lead. (SEE SCHEDULE O)

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Urban Christians & Artists Inc; the most unlike its peers is Stem Kids Nyc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

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

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 18 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/13
Grantees still filing
7/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HIGHLANDER RESEARCH & EDUCATION CENTER INC: $166,256 · EnvironmentHIGHLANDER RESEARCH & EDUCATION CENTER INCBETHEL GOSPEL ASSEMBLY INC: $39,615 · OtherBETHEL GOSPEL ASSEMBLY INCNeighborhood Benches Inc: $35,400 · OtherNeighborhood Benches IncREVOLUTIONARY FITNESS INC: $11,825 · OtherREVOLUTIONARY FITNESS INCTEAM ESTEEM ON THE HILL YEP INC: $5,500 · OtherFAITH HOPE COMMUNITY CENTER INC FAITH HOPE COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $5,500 · OtherBABY MOMMA ASSOCIATION INC: $5,500 · OtherYOUNG URBAN CHRISTIANS & ARTISTS INC: $32,700 · Youth DevelopmentYOUNG URBAN CH…LEAD BY EXAMPLE AND REVERSE THE TREND: $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentLEAD BY EXAMPL…PEOPLES ADVOCACY INSTITUTE: $23,000 · Arts & CultureDREAM DARE TO REVITALIZE EDUCATION THRU ARTS & MEDIATION INC: $5,825 · Arts & Culture20 20 Vision For Schools Inc: $14,520 · EducationSTEM KIDS NYC: $8,350 · EducationGOOD LIFE PHILANTHROPIC YOUTH FOUNDATION INC: $5,500 · EducationFREEDOM YOUTH FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER INC: $17,500 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY FATHERS INC: $5,500 · Human ServicesMission Accomplished Transition Services Inc: $5,500 · EmploymentYOUTH LIFE SUPPORT NETWORK INC: $5,500 · Crime & Legal
Environment$166,256Other$103,340Youth Development$52,700Arts & Culture$28,825Education$28,370Human Services$23,000Employment$5,500Crime & Legal$5,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

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

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

Open a dossier: Pinkerton Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Community Connections for Youth Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Community Connections for Youth Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 10%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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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.

    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 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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