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Specialized Alternatives for Families & Youth of America Inc

At safy, our vision is to create thriving families and communities where every individual, regardless of background or circumstance, can reach their full potential.

$1.7M
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$855k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Human Services$3.0M
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $7k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $341k
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.4M
$144,317
Median grant
4
States reached
$4.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SAFY OF KENTUCKY INC$854,665
SAFY OF OHIO INC$540,037
SAFY OF SOUTH CAROLINA INC$144,317
SAFY OF ALABAMA INC$109,362
SAFY OF INDIANA INC$86,948
SAFY HOLDING COMPANY INC$6,535
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $2.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 81% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%SAFY OF COLORADO: $452k → 11%SAFY OF OHIO INC: $540k → 13%SAFY OF KENTUCKY INC: $855k → 15%SAFY OF INDIANA: $345k → 13%SAFY OF COLORADO: $113k → 13%SAFY OF INDIANA INC: $87k → 13%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.

50%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.5M · 3 repeat orgs$1.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +14% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

3 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
4

Total granted

$1.5M
$1.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
0%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 13% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.5M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’23’24
Human ServicesHealthCrime & LegalOther
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

  • SA
    SPECIALIZED ALTERNATIVES FOR FAMILIES & YOUTH OF COLORADO INC
    3× · 2020–2023 · $564k · revenue +85%
  • SA
    SPECIALIZED ALTERNATIVES FOR FAMILI ES & YOUTH OF SOUTH CAROLINA INC
    3× · 2020–2024 · $486k · revenue -49%
  • SA
    SPECIALIZED ALTERNATIVES FOR FAMILIES & YOUTH OF INDIANA INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $432k · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • SA
    SPECIALIZED ALTERNATIVES FOR FAMILIES & YOUTH OF KENTUCKY INC
    2× · 2021–2024 · $855k · revenue -13%
  • SA
    SPECIALIZED ALTERNATIVES FOR FAMILIES & YOUTH OF OHIO INC
    one grant, 2024 · $540k · revenue 0%
  • SA
    SPECIALIZED ALTERNATIVES FOR FAMILIES & YOUTH OF ALABAMA INC
    one grant, 2024 · $109k · revenue 0%
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
Specialized Alternatives for Families & Youth of America Inc

At safy, our vision is to create thriving families and communities where every individual, regardless of background or circumstance, can reach their full potential.

Human Services
2
Specialized Alternatives for Families & Youth of Nevada Inc

At safy, our vision is to create thriving families and communities where every individual, regardless of background or circumstance, can reach their full potential.

Human Services
3
Western Electricity Coordinating Council

To effectively and efficiently mitigate risks to the reliability and security of the western interconnection's bulk power system.

Public Benefit
4
Massachusetts Business Roundtable Inc

The mission of the roundtable is to make massachusetts the most desirable place to live, work and do business by engaging private sector executives and public leaders to ensure access to a robust, diverse and talented workforce that…

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5
Greater Phoenix Economic Council

The organization's mission is to attract and grow quality businesses and advocate for greater phoenix's competitiveness.

Community Improvement
6
Greater Sacramento Area Economic Council

A public-private partnership to retain, attract and create sustainable businesses in six counties.

Community Improvement
7
Cincinnati Center City Development Corp

To strengthen the core assets of downtown cincinnati, create great civic spaces, high-density/mixed-use developments, and preserve historic structures.

Community Improvement
8
Emerald Communities

Emerald communities is a faith-based, not-for-profit organization that provides leadership and management services for its affiliate organizations to create and enhance lifestyle opportunities for seniors. (continued in schedule o)it is…

Human Services
9
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
10
Behavior Analyst Certification Board Inc

We protect consumers of behavior analysis services by systematically establishing, promoting, and disseminating professional standards.

Employment
11
Dallas Citizens Council

To lead and serve in the moments that matter the most for the people of dallas.

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12
Summit Community Care Clinic Inc

Provide exceptional, integrated, patient-centered health care services designed to meet the needs of all patients, particularly those who experience barriers to accessing care, regardless of their ability to pay.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Specialized Alternatives for Families & Youth of Colorado Inc; the most unlike its peers is Safy Foundation Inc. 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

8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2024.

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 2024, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

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

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
2/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SPECIALIZED ALTERNATIVES FOR FAMILIES & YOUTH OF KENTUCKY INC: $854,665 · Human ServicesSPECIALIZED ALTERNATIVES FOR FAMILIES & YOUTH OF KENTUCKY INCSPECIALIZED ALTERNATIVES FOR FAMILIES & YOUTH OF COLORADO INC: $564,451 · Human ServicesSPECIALIZED ALTERNATIVES FOR FAMILIES & YOUTH OF COLORADO INCSPECIALIZED ALTERNATIVES FOR FAMILIES & YOUTH OF OHIO INC: $540,037 · Human ServicesSPECIALIZED ALTERNATIVES FOR FAMILIES & YOUTH OF OHIO INCSPECIALIZED ALTERNATIVES FOR FAMILIES & YOUTH OF INDIANA INC: $431,793 · Human ServicesSPECIALIZED ALTERNATIVES FOR FAMILIES & YOUTH OF INDIANA INCSPECIALIZED ALTERNATIVES FOR FAMILI ES & YOUTH OF SOUTH CAROLINA INC: $486,054 · Crime & LegalSPECIALIZED ALTERN…SPECIALIZED ALTERNATIVES FOR FAMILIES & YOUTH OF ALABAMA INC: $109,362 · HealthSAFY HOLDING COMPANY INC: $6,535 · Other
Human Services$2,390,946Crime & Legal$486,054Health$109,362Other$6,535

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSPECIALIZED ALTERNATIVES FOR FAMILIES & YOUTH OF KENTUCKY INC: $854,665 over 2y, 6.6% of budgetSPECIALIZED ALTERNATIVES FOR FAMILIES & YOUTH OF COLORADO INC: $564,451 over 3y, 14% of budgetSPECIALIZED ALTERNATIVES FOR FAMILIES & YOUTH OF OHIO INC: $540,037 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetSPECIALIZED ALTERNATIVES FOR FAMILI ES & YOUTH OF SOUTH CAROLINA INC: $486,054 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetSPECIALIZED ALTERNATIVES FOR FAMILIES & YOUTH OF INDIANA INC: $431,793 over 2y, 6.3% of budgetSPECIALIZED ALTERNATIVES FOR FAMILIES & YOUTH OF ALABAMA INC: $109,362 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetSAFY HOLDING COMPANY INC: $6,535 over 1y, 1.9% 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%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
    0get no government money at all
    3report 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.

    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 7 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.

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