How much does Youth Emergency Services give?

Youth Emergency Services reported 9 grants totaling $18,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 85 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.

What does Youth Emergency Services fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (21%), Health (13%), Crime & Legal (8%).

Who are Youth Emergency Services's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Film Society of Austin Inc ($25k), End Overdose ($15k), We Are Family Foundation ($4k).

Does Youth Emergency Services fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Youth Emergency Services accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Youth Emergency Services?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Austin Community Foundation Inc, Shield-Ayres Foundation, United Way for Greater Austin.

Where is Youth Emergency Services based?

Youth Emergency Services is based in TX.

Youth Emergency Services

Youth Emergency Services at a glance

· Private foundation

Youth Emergency Services

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$19k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$4k

Largest

01What it funds

0191% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$61kHealth$37kCrime & Legal$23kCivil Rights$23kHousing & Shelter$21kEnvironment$18kFood & Nutrition$16kAnimals$13kOther$0

02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,500

Median grant

States reached

$438k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
Individual grant recipient	$3,500
Individual grant recipient	$3,500
Individual grant recipient	$3,000
TALENT ARTS	$2,500
Individual grant recipient	$2,500
WE ARE FAMILY FOUNDATION	$1,000
HISTORICAL PRESERVATION SOCIETY	$1,000
AKINS READY SET TEACH	$1,000
Individual grant recipient	$500

02The need

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 (FY20–22, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 40% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

61%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$178k · 72 repeat orgs$116k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

72 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 71 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$178k

$98k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%

Still filing today

71%

29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 5% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureEnvironmentHuman ServicesCrime & LegalInternationalEducationOther

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

WA
WE ARE FAMILY FOUNDATION
4× · 2020–2024 · $4k · revenue +63%
SA
SAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK
2× · 2020–2021 · $4k · revenue +18%
TU
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
3× · 2020–2022 · $4k · revenue +57%

Funded once

FS
Film Society of Austin Inc
one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +16%
EO
END OVERDOSEgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +344%
HF
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY
one grant, 2020 · $4k

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.

Aclu Foundation of Texas Inc

The ACLU Foundation of Texas is the unyielding guardian and promoter of freedom, justice, equality and dignity of all people, particularly for those who are still fighting to secure the full exercise of their civil rights and liberties.…

Civil Rights

American Civil Liberties Union of Texas Inc

The ACLU of Texas works with communities, at the State Capitol, and in the courts to protect and advance civil rights and civil liberties for every Texan, no exceptions.

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Texas Defender Service

See Schedule OTDS fights for the end of mass incarceration and excessive punishment in Texas through direct representation, policy reform, and public education. TDS stands up for the dignity and humanity of people harmed by mass…

Civil Rights

Equal Justice Center

The Equal Justice Center is a non-profit law firm and employment justice organization which empowers low-income families, workers, and communities to achieve fair treatment in the workplace, in the justice system, and in our shared society…

Civil Rights

Center for Austin Independent Journalism

To equip Austinites to make informed decisions through independent, in-depth reporting, diverse opinions, and civil dialogue. A strong local press is essential for a healthy community and democracy. We work to make Austin a more empowered…

Arts & Culture

Austin Habitat for Humanity Inc

Through faith in action, austin habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope.

—

After Violence Project

The Texas After Violence Project is a community-based archive and documentary project cultivating deeper understanding of state-sanctioned violence on individuals, families, and communities. Our mission is to do responsible, inclusive, and…

Civil Rights

Border Workers United

A community-based organization that develops leadership of workers to construct a movement of worker families in the texas borderlands.

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Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal

Glasstire

Glasstire is a website about visual art in Texas. Our mission is to expand the conversation about visual art in Texas.

Arts & Culture

Progress Texas Institute

The Progress Texas Institute provides research and strategic communications on issues with the ultimate goal of increasing civic engagement.

Civil Rights

Oficina Legal Del Pueblo Unido Inc

We are texas lawyers for texas communities, boldly serving the movement for equality and justice in and out of the courts.

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Freedom Center Texas; the most unlike its peers is Rising 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

72 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. 72 of the 131 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

66/72

Grantees still filing

49/72

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$177,985Arts & Culture$42,000Health$22,000Environment$15,000Human Services$15,000International$11,000Education$11,000

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

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.

Austin Community Foundation IncTX36.9× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Austin Community Foundation Inc · Shield-Ayres Foundation · United Way for Greater Austin · St David's Foundation · The Cynthia & George Mitchell Foundation · Alice Kleberg Reynolds Meyer Foundat A0479800 · Better Business Bureau · The Moody Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · The Elizabeth Crook & Marc Lewis Foundation · A Glimmer of Hope Foundation Austin · Dallas Jewish Community 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

1rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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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The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

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The endowment market

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The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home