Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
ADVOCATES FOR YOUTH
ADVOCATES FOR YOUTH (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 82 organizations whose IRS filings report $52,729,362 to it, the largest being THE SUSAN THOMPSON BUFFETT FOUNDATION ($14,172,825). 41 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $8.4M
- Funders on record
- 82
- Grants received
- $53M
- Net assets
- $8.6M
What Advocates for Youth does
Mission
Advocates for Youth partners with young people and their adult allies to champion youth rights to bodily autonomy and build power to transform policies, programs and systems to secure sexual health and equity for all youth.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Youth empowerment: advocates trains thousands of youth activists each year to serve as advocates and leaders in the progressive movement. Advocates helps these emerging leaders to shift cultural narratives and improve policy and practice at the local and state levels, centering the health and rights of youth from marginalized communities.
$2,082,013 spent$16,295 earned by the program26% of program spendingSex education: advocates is at the forefront of efforts to ensure that young people have access to honest and high quality sex education. Advocates' open-source, lgbt-inclusive k-12th grade curriculum, "rights, respect, responsbility", is used in more than 500 school districts across the u.s. Reaching more than 5 million students. Advocates partners with two organizations on amaze.org, an innovative series of animated videos covering puberty and topics for young people, ages 10-14, their parents and educators. After successful testing, advocates also offers a virtual classroom as an innovative option to train teachers from their own computer to implement quality sex education in their classrooms. Staff provides capacity-building assistance and training for school districts across the country.
$1,955,045 spentof which $10,000 as grants$337,937 earned by the program24% of program spendingPublic affairs: advocates works to ensure that all young people have access to sexual health information and services and opportunities that drive sexual health equity. Advocates and its youth activists created several advocacy campaigns to engage young people in efforts to shift the national narrative to one that recognizes young people's rights, utilizing traditional media outreach, social media networks and partnerships, and storytelling. Advocates also centered young people in efforts to educate policy makers at the federal, state, and local levels.
$1,568,716 spentof which $10,000 as grants$8,825 earned by the program19% of program spendingHiv/aids prevention
$1,284,340 spentof which $20,535 as grants16% of program spendingInternational programs
$928,723 spent11% of program spendingAdolescent sexual health services
$294,592 spentof which $5,000 as grants$11,350 earned by the program4% of program spendingPublic information services
$4,679 spent$8,810 earned by the program0% of program spending
The 7 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $8,118,108.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $11M to $14M (+30%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 11% · 2018 15% · 2019 11% · 2020 8% · 2021 21% · 2022 9% · 2023 11% · 2024 7% · 2025 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Board chair
Allison Agwu
Chair (until 11/24)
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 20 funders to 33 funders, grant income rose $5.2M → $7.1M.
17 of 82 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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 YOUTH’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 82 funders by total. 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 YOUTH leans on a few funders — its largest provides 27% of grant income and the top three 62%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 36% · 2018 42% · 2019 36% · 2020 33% · 2021 18% · 2022 35% · 2023 31% — diversifying over time.
“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
47% of ADVOCATES FOR YOUTH's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.
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
ADVOCATES FOR YOUTH draws 98% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 19 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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.
Government funding ADVOCATES FOR YOUTH receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $5.9M on record — $5.8M federal, $67k state.
- Department of Health and Human Services$5.8M
- MA$48k
- OR$18k
- FL$567
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like ADVOCATES FOR YOUTH
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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
54%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 28 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ADVOCATES FOR YOUTH: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ADVOCATES FOR YOUTH?
- ADVOCATES FOR YOUTH (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 82 organizations whose IRS filings report $52,729,362 to it, the largest being THE SUSAN THOMPSON BUFFETT FOUNDATION ($14,172,825). 41 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ADVOCATES FOR YOUTH have?
- IRS filings report 82 organizations giving $52,729,362 in grants to ADVOCATES FOR YOUTH, 41 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ADVOCATES FOR YOUTH?
- THE SUSAN THOMPSON BUFFETT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $14,172,825 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ADVOCATES FOR YOUTH find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 82 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing