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Options for Families and Youth

OPTIONS FOR FAMILIES AND YOUTH was committed to developing and strengthening pathways of change that promote the well-being of children and families. They provided foster care placement, adoption services and other childrens' programs.

$50k
Granted FY2019
3
Itemized grants FY2019
3
Organizations funded FY2019
100%
First-time grantees FY2019
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Itemized, FY2019
$44k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2019
$11,200
Largest grant, FY2019
$22,700
Organizations funded a year
3 to 3
FY2018 to FY2019
States reached, FY2019
1

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2019, 100% of the organizations Options for Families and Youth funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20193$44k100%
FY20183$50kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2019.

International$34kHousing & Shelter$30kHuman Services$30k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2019, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Nehemiah Collaborative$30,000111%
Drink Local Drink Tap Inc$22,70015%
Sanyuka Childrens Ministries$11,2001n/a
Ashlies Embrace$10,0001n/a
Beulah Beach Corporation$10,0001n/a
Young Womens Christian Association of Cleveland Ohio$10,00010%

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.

American Online Giving Foundation IncDE7.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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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How do I get to Options for Families and Youth?

Find your warmest path to Options for Families and Youth 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.

About Options for Families and Youth

How much does Options for Families and Youth give?
Options for Families and Youth reported 3 itemized grants totaling $43,900, out of $50,330 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2019 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 3 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2019.
What does Options for Families and Youth fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2019, its largest causes are International (36%), Housing & Shelter (32%), Human Services (32%).
Who are Options for Families and Youth's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2019: Nehemiah Collaborative ($30k), Drink Local Drink Tap Inc ($23k), Sanyuka Childrens Ministries ($11k).
Does Options for Families and Youth fund new organizations?
In FY2019, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Options for Families and Youth?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include American Online Giving Foundation Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Options for Families and Youth based?
Options for Families and Youth is based in OH.

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 6 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 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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