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Youth Leadership Institute

yli's mission is to build communities that invest in youth and where young people and adults come together to create positive social change.

$473k
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$8k
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$400kYouth Development$300kCommunity Improvement$112kArts & Culture$95kHealth$93kEducation$92kPhilanthropy$85kFood & Nutrition$47kOther$0
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 1 grants below total $8,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $473,405 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $465,405 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

$8,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$5.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Communities United for Restorative Youth$8,000
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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $314k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 94% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Work It Well Project Org: $12k → 10%San Mateo Union Community Alliance: $10k → 7%San Mateo Union Community Alliance: $10k → 7%South of Market CAN: $145k → 10%Coleman Advocates for Children and Youth: $10k → 10%Coleman Advocates for Children & Youth: $10k → 10%Young Women's Freedom Center: $5k → 10%Communities United for Restorative Youth: $8k → 10%Tides Center: $10k → 10%Tides Center: $10k → 10%Tides Center: $5k → 10%Tides Center: $5k → 10%Living Water Outreach Services: $10k → 10%Living Water Outreach Services: $5k → 10%Dads Evoking Change: $15k → 10%Oakland Communities United for Equity & Justice: $10k → 10%The Self-ish Society: $15k → 10%Carl B Metoyer CFFC: $10k → 10%Men of Influence: $8k → 10%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.

43%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$607k · 20 repeat orgs$810k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +80% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.

20 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
62

Total granted

$607k
$802k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+80%
+1%

Still filing today

80%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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 ServicesYouth DevelopmentHealthEducationArts & CultureEnvironmentOther

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

  • PD
    PUENTE DE LA COSTA SUR
    2× · 2017–2018 · $86k · revenue +174%
  • M
    MyPath
    2× · 2017–2018 · $78k · revenue +80%
  • BA
    BAY AREA COMMUNITY RESOURCES INC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $50k · revenue +118%

Funded once

  • FD
    Filipino-American Development Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $145k · revenue +255%
  • PJ
    Planting Justicegraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $40k · revenue +101%
  • CF
    CENTER FOR APPLIED RESEARCH SOLUTIONS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $30k · revenue +231%

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
California School-Age Consortium Inc

The California School-Age Consortium (CalSAC) builds professional networks that provide training, leadership development and advocacy to ensure that all young people have access to high quality out-of-school time programs and to create a…

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2
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…

Employment
3
Lead Liberated

Through coaching and group facilitation, leaders of color heal from racism, develop skills to identify & interrupt racism in personal leadership, organizational practices & policies, and produce antiracist solutions in partnership with…

Education
4
East Bay Agency for Children

For more than 70 years, East Bay Agency for Children continues to improve the well-being of children, youth and families by reducing the impact of trauma and social inequalities.

Health
5
Enterprise for Youth

Enterprise for youth empowers under-resourced san francisco youths to reach their potential through transformative paid internship experiences supported by a community of employers, caring adults, and peers.

Youth Development
6
Homeless Childrens Network

To provide direct mental health services, psychotherapy, and counseling to homeless families in San Francisco, CA and in particular to children of such families, to provide referral services for such families and their children to other…

Human Services
7
United Playaz

United Playaz is a San Francisco-based violence prevention and youth development organization. We provide a comprehensive range of services to prepare vulnerable youth for higher education, employment, and healthy living within a safe,…

Youth Development
8
Youth United for Community Action

Youth United for Community Action (YUCA), a grassroots community organization created, led, and run by young people of color, the majority from low-income communities, provides a safe space for young people to empower ourselves and work on…

Youth Development
9
The California Center for Civic Participation

To educate california youth about the operations of local, state, and federal government.

Public Benefit
10
Community Agency for Resources Advocacy & Services

Resources and Community Advocacy. Serving low income youth and families in the community. Providing culturally competent and sensitivie programing based on based on the needs and resources available in Santa Clara County.

Human Services
11
East Bay Asian Youth Center

Ebayc is dedicated to supporting young people to be safe, smart, and socially responsible. ebayc offers a continuum of integrated services to a diverse membership of youth and families in oakland. our goal is to support students to…

Youth Development
12
Justice Funders

Serve as a partner, educator, and guide for philanthropy in reimagining practices that advance a thriving and just world.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bay Area Community Resources Inc and the most unlike its peers is Alkebulan Fiscal Sponsors. 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 15 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%7%<5yr15%30%5–10yr19%21%10–20yr17%24%20–35yr15%18%35–55yr11%0%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%4%<5yr15%22%5–10yr19%14%10–20yr17%43%20–35yr15%17%35–55yr11%0%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/85
the rest of the field
12%
3,171/27,074

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

60 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. 60 of the 85 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
59/60
Grantees still filing
34/60
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MyPath — $78,000 · OtherMyPathMISSION GRADUATES — $30,000 · OtherAS YOU ARE NON PROFIT CALLED TO DO HIS WORK — $25,000 · OtherFriends of the School of the Arts Fnd — $47,500 · OtherFriends of the School of the Arts FndUrban Habitat Program — $40,000 · OtherUrban Habitat ProgramCENTER FOR APPLIED RESEARCH SOLUTIONS INC — $30,000 · Other+41 more — $457,460 · Other+41 moreFilipino-American Development Foundation — $145,000 · Human ServicesFilipino-American Develo…TIDES CENTER — $30,000 · Human ServicesTIDES CENTERSan Mateo County Union Community Alliance — $20,000 · Human ServicesSan Mateo County Union C…Coleman Children and Youth Services dba Coleman Advocates for Children & Youth — $20,000 · Human ServicesColeman Children and You…LIVING WATER OUTREACH SERVICES — $15,250 · Human ServicesSelf-ish Society Inc — $15,000 · Human ServicesDADS EVOKING CHANGE — $15,000 · Human ServicesWORK IT WELL PROJECT — $12,000 · Human Services+5 more — $41,461 · Human Services+5 morePUENTE DE LA COSTA SUR — $86,286 · Arts & CulturePUENTE DE…Prevention Institute — $20,000 · Arts & CulturePreventio…The Bay Area Video Coalition Incorporated — $10,000 · Arts & CultureThe Bay A…Mission Cultural Center For Latino Arts — $10,000 · Arts & CultureMission C…BAY AREA COMMUNITY RESOURCES INC — $50,000 · HealthFREEDOM COMMUNITY CLINIC INC — $25,000 · HealthMISSION AREA HEALTH ASSOCIATES — $15,000 · HealthAlkebulan Fiscal Sponsors — $7,500 · HealthASIAN HEALTH SERVICES — $5,250 · HealthYouth Leadership Incubator Inc HackPlus — $35,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE BAYVIEW ASSOCIATION FOR YOUTH — $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentYOUTH COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentPOSITIVE ALTERNATIVE RECREATION TEAMBUILDING IMPACTING PROGRAM — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentUpward Roots Inc — $8,000 · Youth DevelopmentCooline Team of East Palo Alto — $6,400 · Youth DevelopmentYOUTH SPIRIT ARTWORKS — $5,250 · Youth DevelopmentCollective Impact — $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC — $25,250 · EducationVocal Justice — $10,000 · EducationVisioning Beyond Violence — $10,000 · EducationSAN FRANCISCO STUDY CENTER INC — $10,000 · EducationTHE FUTURE EDUCATION INITIATIVE — $7,350 · EducationTHE OAKLAND PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND — $5,000 · EducationPlanting Justice — $40,000 · EnvironmentFrontline Catalysts — $13,411 · Environment
Other$707,960Human Services$313,711Arts & Culture$126,286Health$102,750Youth Development$99,650Education$67,600Environment$53,411

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFilipino-American Development Foundation — $145,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetPUENTE DE LA COSTA SUR — $86,286 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetMyPath — $78,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetBAY AREA COMMUNITY RESOURCES INC — $50,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of the School of the Arts Fnd — $47,500 over 2y, 18% of budgetUrban Habitat Program — $40,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetPlanting Justice — $40,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetYouth Leadership Incubator Inc HackPlus — $35,000 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetTIDES CENTER — $30,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR APPLIED RESEARCH SOLUTIONS INC — $30,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetMISSION GRADUATES — $30,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC — $25,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFREEDOM COMMUNITY CLINIC INC — $25,000 over 3y, 5.4% of budgetPrevention Institute — $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetColeman Children and Youth Services dba Coleman Advocates for Children & Youth — $20,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetNIHONMACHI LEGAL OUTREACH DBA ASIAN PACIFIC ISLANDER LEGAL OUTREACH — $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetRICHMOND DISTRICT NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC — $17,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLIVING WATER OUTREACH SERVICES — $15,250 over 2y, 33% of budgetCALIFORNIA DRAGON BOAT ASSOCIATION — $15,000 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetDADS EVOKING CHANGE — $15,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetTHE BAYVIEW ASSOCIATION FOR YOUTH — $15,000 over 2y, 6.4% of budgetBeat The Streets Bay Area — $15,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetURBAN STRATEGIES COUNCIL — $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHEALING TOGETHER — $15,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetYOUTH COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $15,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetMISSION AREA HEALTH ASSOCIATES — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYouth Leadership Institute — $13,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFrontline Catalysts — $13,411 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetWORK IT WELL PROJECT — $12,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetOakland Communities United for Equity and Justice — $10,211 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetCarl B Metoyer Center for Family Counseling — $10,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetVocal Justice — $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetVisioning Beyond Violence — $10,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetThe Bay Area Video Coalition Incorporated — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMission Cultural Center For Latino Arts — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPOSITIVE ALTERNATIVE RECREATION TEAMBUILDING IMPACTING PROGRAM — $10,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetBUILDING OPP FOR SELF-SUFFICIENCY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetARIEL OUTREACH MISSION — $10,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO STUDY CENTER INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAN JOSE CONSERVATION CORPS — $9,977 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITIES UNITED FOR RESTORATIVE YOUTH JUSTICE DBA CURYJ — $8,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMen of Influence — $8,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetUpward Roots Inc — $8,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetANAMATANGI POLYNESIAN VOICES — $7,500 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetTHE FUTURE EDUCATION INITIATIVE — $7,350 over 1y, 18% of budgetCooline Team of East Palo Alto — $6,400 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetYOUNG WOMEN'S FREEDOM CENTER — $5,250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYOUTH SPIRIT ARTWORKS — $5,250 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

The San Francisco Fou…East Bay Community Fo…Kaiser Foundation Hos…Silicon Valley Commun…The California Endowm…Bay Area Community Re…Akonadi FoundationTipping Point Communi…Tides CenterStupski FoundationUnited Way of the Bay…Young Men's Christian…
The San Francisco FoundationCA47.1× affinity32 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The San Francisco Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The California Endowment · Bay Area Community Resources Inc · Akonadi Foundation · Tipping Point Community · Tides Center · Stupski Foundation · United Way of the Bay Area · Young Men's Christian Association of San Francisco

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 Youth Leadership Institute 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 · 10%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    26report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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 85 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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