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John Burton Advocates for Youth

John Burton Advocates for Youth (jbay) improves the quality of life for youth in california who have been in foster care or homeless by advocating for better laws, training communities to strengthen local practices and conducting research to inform policy solutions.

$393k
Granted FY2025still arriving
22
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$80k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
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 FY2017–2025.

Human Services$1.1MEducation$623kYouth Development$482kHousing & Shelter$326kEmployment$248kCommunity Improvement$140kSocial Science$40kCivil Rights$40kOther$0
02FY2025 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k13 grants · $114k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $199k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $80k
$9,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
The Community College Fdn$80,000
Sierra Joint Community Colleg$43,485
Bill Wilson Center$39,000
Lutheran Social Services$39,000
Los Angeles Valley College Fo$20,000
San Francisco CASA$20,000
Cabrillo College Foundation$17,680
Feather River Community Colle$10,000
Imperial Community College Di$10,000
San Diego Youth Services$9,000
Safe Place for Youth$9,000
Star Vista$9,000
Family Assistance Program$9,000
Los Angeles LGBT Center$9,000
San Francisco Foster Youth$9,000
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 76% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%On the Move: $40k → 9%Lutheran Social Services: $39k → 9%First Place for Youth: $25k → 10%iFoster: $378k → 11%Wind Youth Services Inc: $9k → 12%EA Family Services: $30k → 13%Center for Human Services: $30k → 15%Youth for Change: $9k → 18%Star Vista: $10k → 7%Bill Wilson Center: $39k → 8%Lutheran Social Services: $30k → 9%Lakrin Street Youth Services: $10k → 10%iFoster: $10k → 11%Wind Youth Services Inc: $9k → 12%Youth for Change: $9k → 18%Elevate Community Services: $30k → 19%Think of Us: $10k → 14%Star Vista: $9k → 7%Lutheran Social Services: $29k → 9%Lakrin Street Youth Services: $9k → 10%iFoster: $10k → 11%Wind Youth Services Inc: $9k → 12%Youth for Change: $8k → 18%Think of Us: $10k → 14%Star Vista: $9k → 7%Bill Wilson Center: $30k → 8%Beyond Emancipation: $10k → 10%Lakrin Street Youth Services: $9k → 10%Aspiranet: $9k → 7%Beyond Emancipation: $10k → 10%The Tides Center: $8k → 10%San Diego Youth Services: $10k → 11%Bill Wilson Center: $29k → 8%San Diego Youth Services: $9k → 11%San Diego Youth Services: $9k → 11%Covenant House: $30k → 14%Covenant House: $9k → 14%Covenant House: $9k → 14%Maryvale: $20k → 14%First Star: $25k → 14%First Star: $25k → 14%Safe Place for Youth: $10k → 14%Safe Place for Youth: $9k → 14%Safe Place for Youth: $9k → 14%Wellnest: $20k → 14%Mixed Roots Foundation: $10k → 14%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 edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

67%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.0M · 28 repeat orgs$989k to everyone else

28 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
68

Total granted

$2.0M
$874k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+26%

Still filing today

89%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $116k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • II
    iFoster Inc
    3× · 2020–2024 · $398k · revenue +115%
  • TW
    TOGETHER WE RISE
    2× · 2020–2021 · $225k · revenue +52%
  • CC
    COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION
    4× · 2022–2025 · $207k · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • RI
    RYSE INC
    one grant, 2023 · $75k · revenue -13%
  • SC
    Social Change Partners LLC
    one grant, 2022 · $43k
  • OT
    ON THE MOVE
    one grant, 2023 · $40k · revenue +7%

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

04Your 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
Foundation for California Community Colleges

The foundation's mission is to benefit, support, and enhance the missions of the california community college system.

Education
2
Stem Advantage

Talent is equally distributed, but opportunity is not. STEM Advantage mentors, prepares, and inspires first-generation, low-income, and underserved college students for careers in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). We level…

Youth Development
3
San Mateo County Community Colleges Foundation

The mission of san mateo county community colleges foundation is to promote student success and program innovation by providing financial support to help san mateo county community college district students achieve their goals. the…

Education
4
College Futures Foundation
Public Benefit
5
Berkeley Community Scholars Dba Berkeley Community Fund

Berkeley Community Scholars empowers Berkeley youth who face racial, economic, and other barriers to achieving their college dreams by providing a unique experience of scholarships, advising, mentoring, and a community of support.

Philanthropy
6
Southwestern College Foundation

Southwestern College Foundation is dedicated to raising friends and funds that support all aspects of educational advancement at Southwestern College.

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7
Golden West College Foundation

Provide resources to support Golden West College and the community by advancing education and opportunity for all students.

Education
8
Los Rios Colleges Foundation

To raise private philanthropic gifts that improve student success and help prepare an educated workforce through scholarships, emergency grants, and college program support.

—
9
Cuesta College Foundation

The cuesta college foundation supports the excellence of cuesta college by engaging the community and building philanthropic resources. the funds raised and managed by the foundation strengthen college programs, provide educational…

Education
10
Los Medanos College Foundation

To develop resources and relationships that provide financial support to los medanos college students through student scholarships, student programs and services, instructional supplies, and facility improvements.

Education
11
Foundation for the Los Angeles Community Colleges

To support the success of the students, programs, and colleges of the los angeles community college district and to advance access to postsecondary education and training in the greater los angeles region.

Education
12
Ventura College Foundation

The Ventura College Foundation transforms students lives through education by providing innovative and vital resources and financial support. The Foundation collaborates with Ventura College to enhance human potential, civic engagement,…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community College Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Wellnest Emotional Health & Wellness. 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 41 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number25%0%<5yr15%6%5–10yr20%6%10–20yr17%28%20–35yr11%44%35–55yr12%16%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value25%0%<5yr15%4%5–10yr20%17%10–20yr17%32%20–35yr11%33%35–55yr12%14%55yr+

The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/98
the rest of the field
14%
22,609/158,470

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

70 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. 70 of the 104 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)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
69/70
Grantees still filing
48/70
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

iFoster Inc — $397,937 · Human ServicesiFoster IncBILL WILSON CENTER — $98,000 · Human ServicesBILL WILSON CENTERLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA — $98,000 · Human ServicesLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF NORTHERN CALIF…FIRST STAR INC — $50,000 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA — $48,000 · Human ServicesON THE MOVE — $40,000 · Human Services+18 more — $422,000 · Human Services+18 morePIVOTAL CONNECTIONS — $80,000 · OtherPIVOTAL CONNECTIONSNEW WAYS TO WORK INC — $50,000 · OtherNEW WAYS TO WORK INCSIERRA JOINT COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT — $43,485 · OtherSocial Change Partners LLC — $42,800 · OtherContra Costa Interfaith Transitional Housing Inc — $30,000 · OtherTHE URBAN INSTITUTE — $40,000 · Other+51 more — $588,500 · Other+51 moreCOMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $207,250 · EducationCOMMUNITY COLLE…Educational Results Partnership — $95,000 · EducationEducational Res…Cabrillo College Foundation — $17,680 · Education+14 more — $84,000 · Education+14 moreTOGETHER WE RISE — $225,000 · Recreation & SportsUNITE-LA INC — $197,500 · EmploymentRYSE INC — $75,000 · Youth DevelopmentCOALITION FOR RESPONSIBLE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT — $47,250 · Youth DevelopmentJUST IN TIME FOR FOSTER YOUTH — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentSan Francisco CASA — $60,000 · Civil Rights
Human Services$1,153,937Other$874,785Education$403,930Recreation & Sports$225,000Employment$197,500Youth Development$132,250Civil Rights$60,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetiFoster Inc — $397,937 over 3y, 10% of budgetTOGETHER WE RISE — $225,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $207,250 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetUNITE-LA INC — $197,500 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetBILL WILSON CENTER — $98,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA — $98,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetEducational Results Partnership — $95,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetPIVOTAL CONNECTIONS — $80,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetRYSE INC — $75,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSan Francisco CASA — $60,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetFIRST STAR INC — $50,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetNEW WAYS TO WORK INC — $50,000 over 2y, 8.5% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA — $48,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCOALITION FOR RESPONSIBLE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT — $47,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetON THE MOVE — $40,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE URBAN INSTITUTE — $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL ALTERNATIVES — $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR HUMAN SERVICES — $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetElevate Community Services Inc — $30,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetContra Costa Interfaith Transitional Housing Inc — $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLarkin Street Youth Services — $28,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSAN DIEGO YOUTH SERVICES — $28,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSAFE PLACE FOR YOUTH INC — $28,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFamily Assistance Program — $28,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetM F PLACE INC — $28,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO FOSTER YOUTH FUND — $28,000 over 3y, 8.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES LGBT CENTER — $28,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetStarVista — $28,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWIND YOUTH SERVICES INC — $27,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetYouth for Change — $26,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFIRST PLACE FOR YOUTH — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMARYVALE — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFocus Forward — $20,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetTHINK OF US — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWellnest Emotional Health & Wellness — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBEYOND EMANCIPATION — $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE LOS ANGELES VALLEY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCabrillo College Foundation — $17,680 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTIDES CENTER — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJUST IN TIME FOR FOSTER YOUTH — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetORANGEWOOD FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCalifornia Youth Connection — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetASPIRANET — $9,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES HARBOR COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $6,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetModesto Junior College Foundation — $6,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMIRACOSTA COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $6,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetRIVERSIDE COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT FOUNDATION — $6,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHARTNELL COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $6,000 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.

Foundation for Califo…Kaiser Foundation Hos…Community InitiativesUnited Way of the Bay…Walter S Johnson Foun…California Community …The California Wellne…Truth Initiative Foun…Tipping Point Communi…Conrad N Hilton Found…The California Endowm…In-N-Out Burgers Foun…
Foundation for California Community CollegesCA110.8× affinity53 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Foundation for California Community Colleges · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Community Initiatives · United Way of the Bay Area · Walter S Johnson Foundation · California Community Foundation · The California Wellness Foundation · Truth Initiative Foundation · Tipping Point Community · Conrad N Hilton Foundation · The California Endowment · In-N-Out Burgers 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 John Burton Advocates for Youth 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    20report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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.

    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 104 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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