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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$400kYouth Development$300kCommunity Improvement$112kArts & Culture$95kHealth$93kEducation$92kPhilanthropy$85kFood & Nutrition$47kOther$0
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 1 grants below total $8,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $473,405 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $465,405 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized 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

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 (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 its 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%Tides Center: $10k → 10%Tides Center: $10k → 10%Communities United for Restorative Youth: $8k → 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
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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +80% since the first grant, against +1% for those 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
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

  • 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%
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
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
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
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
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
6
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
7
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
8
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
9
California Urban Partnership

The California Urban Partnership's (CUP) mission is to build economic security in communities of color through policy research, education and organizing community action. We advocate for systems changes that increase investments to improve…

Community Improvement
10
The California Center for Civic Participation

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

Public Benefit
11
Silicon Valley De-Bug

Silicon Valley De-Bug is a grassroots community organization based in San Jose, California comprised of young people and families from disadvantaged communities coming together to give voice to our typically unseen and unheard experiences…

Human Services
12
Asian Youth Center

Ayc's mission is to meet the educational and social service needs of low-income, immigrant, at-risk, and adjudicated youth and families of all ethnicities, with a special cultural and linguistic competence with asian americans. by…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bay Area Community Resources Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

60 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

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

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
59/60
Grantees still filing
35/60
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 ServicesDADS EVOKING CHANGE: $15,000 · Human ServicesSelf-ish Society Inc: $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 · EducationSAN FRANCISCO STUDY CENTER INC: $10,000 · EducationVisioning Beyond Violence: $10,000 · EducationVocal Justice: $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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetPlanting Justice: $40,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetUrban Habitat Program: $40,000 over 2y, 2.1% 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 budgetNIHONMACHI LEGAL OUTREACH DBA ASIAN PACIFIC ISLANDER LEGAL OUTREACH: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% 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 budgetRICHMOND DISTRICT NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC: $17,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLIVING WATER OUTREACH SERVICES: $15,250 over 2y, 33% of budgetDADS EVOKING CHANGE: $15,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetURBAN STRATEGIES COUNCIL: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE BAYVIEW ASSOCIATION FOR YOUTH: $15,000 over 2y, 6.4% of budgetYOUTH COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $15,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetHEALING TOGETHER: $15,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetBeat The Streets Bay Area: $15,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetCALIFORNIA DRAGON BOAT ASSOCIATION: $15,000 over 2y, 4.9% 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 budgetPOSITIVE ALTERNATIVE RECREATION TEAMBUILDING IMPACTING PROGRAM: $10,000 over 1y, 1.7% 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 budgetSAN FRANCISCO STUDY CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVisioning Beyond Violence: $10,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetCarl B Metoyer Center for Family Counseling: $10,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetARIEL OUTREACH MISSION: $10,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetBUILDING OPP FOR SELF-SUFFICIENCY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVocal Justice: $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetSAN JOSE CONSERVATION CORPS: $9,977 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUpward Roots Inc: $8,000 over 1y, 4.3% 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 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 budgetCOMMUNITY INITIATIVES: $5,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHealth & Human Resource Education Center: $5,250 over 1y, 0.2% 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 tightly interlocked group: 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

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 Leadership Institute funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Youth Leadership Institute. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%10%23%40%funder's 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
    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 85 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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