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ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN & YOUTH INC

ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN & YOUTH INC (Maryland) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,414,486 to it, the largest being ASSOCIATED JEWISH CHARITIES OF BALTIMORE ($637,352). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2022
$148k
Funders on record
21
Grants received
$2.4M
Net assets
$0
14/21 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 89%
01What it does

What Advocates for Children & Youth Inc does

Mission

Mission is to identify problems, promote policies and programs that improve results for Maryland's children in measurable and meaningful ways, and includes evaluation of the effectiveness of programs and policies for the State's children. In November, 2021, the Board of Directors voted to discontinue operations.

As stated on its FY2022 Form 990.

Program

Research and policy development to improve the lives of the children of Maryland.

The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($954k) Expenses 100 ($848k) Net assets -654 ($-31579)2018 Revenue 93 ($887k) Expenses 110 ($933k) Net assets -1609 ($-77698)2019 Revenue 93 ($886k) Expenses 95 ($803k) Net assets 100 ($5k)2020 Revenue 105 ($1.0M) Expenses 103 ($874k) Net assets 2824 ($136k)2021 Revenue 95 ($905k) Expenses 94 ($799k) Net assets 4819 ($233k)2022 Revenue 16 ($148k) Expenses 45 ($381k) Net assets 0 ($0)
201720182019202020212022
Revenue (16)Expenses (45)Net assets (0)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $506k to $0 (−100%).

$243k
$192k
$175k
$274k
$506k
$0
201720182019202020212022
Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 0% · 2022 69%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$106k
’17
−$46k
’18
$83k
’19
$132k
’20
$106k
’21
−$233k
’22
3.5
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

201720182019202020212022
Listed21191715124
Joined·+1+9+5+5+0
No longer listed·311788
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 10 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $330k → $0.

4 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN & YOUTH INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN & YOUTH INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

31% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN & YOUTH INC.

26%
largest funder
64%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 25% · 2018 54% · 2019 46% · 2020 31% · 2021 45% · 2022 100% — growing more concentrated.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How long its funders stay

32% of ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN & YOUTH INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

53% of ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN & YOUTH INC's grant income comes from Maryland funders.

WI
NY
MD
DC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
Maryland out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $696k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN & YOUTH INC

Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Maryland

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

70% of spending goes to programs.

Program 70%Management 27%Fundraising 3%

Governance

4
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

99%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MD

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Questions and answers

Who funds ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN & YOUTH INC?
ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN & YOUTH INC (Maryland) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,414,486 to it, the largest being ASSOCIATED JEWISH CHARITIES OF BALTIMORE ($637,352). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN & YOUTH INC have?
IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $2,414,486 in grants to ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN & YOUTH INC, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN & YOUTH INC?
ASSOCIATED JEWISH CHARITIES OF BALTIMORE is the largest funder on record, with $637,352 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN & YOUTH INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2022 (financials across 2017–2022), and the filings of 21 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing