North Carolina · Nonprofit
ALEXANDER YOUTH NETWORK
ALEXANDER YOUTH NETWORK (North Carolina) receives grants from 69 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,972,881 to it, the largest being MERANCAS FOUNDATION INC ($900,000). 41 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $37M
- Funders on record
- 69
- Grants received
- $5.0M
- Net assets
- $6.6M
What Alexander Youth Network does
Mission
Alexander Youth Network provides quality professional treatment to children with, or at risk of, serious emotional and behavioral problems. We deliver an effective and efficient array of services, enabling children and their families to exercise self determination, achieve their potential, and find long-lasting positive ways to connect with their community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The psychiatric residential treatment facility (prtf) consists of 6-bed treatment units serving children ages 5-14 who suffer from severe emotional, psychological and behavioral problems. Prtf provides a highly structured, therapeutic environment designed to address and meet the needs of each resident. Each resident has an individualized treatment plan designed by a team of licensed or certified professionals. Individual, group and family therapy are provided in combination with 24-hour psychiatric nursing care, psychological testing, special education services, recreation therapy and milieu therapy. All services are provided under the direction of a board certified child and adolescent psychiatrist. In fy 2025, prtf served 179 children.
$18,988,988 spent$16,541,966 earned by the program56% of program spendingThe day treatment program is designed to meet the individual needs of children and their families and address classroom-based social and behavioral problems and academic delays. Day treatment is provided in mecklenburg, gaston, cleveland, stanley, union, davidson, guilford and cabarrus counties. The program is supervised by a program manager and supported by a clinical psychologist and a child and adolescent psychiatrist. Individual, family and group psychotherapy may be provided by licensed clinical social workers as indicated by the child's individual treatment plan. In fy 2025, the day treatment served 261 children.
$5,661,315 spent$5,387,205 earned by the program17% of program spendingThe therapeutic homes at Alexander Youth Network provide intensive therapeutic interventions for children and adolescents who are emotionally and/or behaviorally disturbed. The service is managed by professionals who are qualified and trained to provide individualized services to this population so that the highest level of functioning may be achieved by the child. In fy 2025, therapeutic homes served 157 children.
$5,238,635 spent$6,188,532 earned by the program16% of program spendingIntensive In Home, Medication Mgmt, MST
$3,859,839 spentof which $712,435 as grants$5,425,793 earned by the program11% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $33,748,777.
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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $18M to $9.2M (−49%).
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 2% · 2018 2% · 2019 2% · 2020 6% · 2021 23% · 2022 15% · 2023 15% · 2024 9% · 2025 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
8% of ALEXANDER YOUTH NETWORK’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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.
Chief executive
N Craig Bass
CEO, ayn
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 18 funders to 26 funders, grant income rose $284k → $654k.
15 of 69 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $1.0M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Alexander Children's Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money ALEXANDER YOUTH NETWORK raised.
From the IRS filings of ALEXANDER YOUTH NETWORK’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 69 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
ALEXANDER YOUTH NETWORK has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
61% 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 ALEXANDER YOUTH NETWORK.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 35% · 2018 27% · 2019 29% · 2020 19% · 2021 20% · 2022 20% · 2023 15% — 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
44% of ALEXANDER YOUTH NETWORK's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
72% of ALEXANDER YOUTH NETWORK's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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.
Against its field
ALEXANDER YOUTH NETWORK's funding base is broadening — from 18 funders to 26 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,396 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding ALEXANDER YOUTH NETWORK receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.1M on record — $1.0M federal, $76k state.
- Department of Health and Human Services$1.0M
- NJ$61k
- MA$16k
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 ALEXANDER YOUTH NETWORK
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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- The Relatives Inc · exempt
- Alexander Children's Foundation Inc · exempt
- Youth Focus Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ALEXANDER YOUTH NETWORK: 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 ALEXANDER YOUTH NETWORK?
- ALEXANDER YOUTH NETWORK (North Carolina) receives grants from 69 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,972,881 to it, the largest being MERANCAS FOUNDATION INC ($900,000). 41 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ALEXANDER YOUTH NETWORK have?
- IRS filings report 69 organizations giving $4,972,881 in grants to ALEXANDER YOUTH NETWORK, 41 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ALEXANDER YOUTH NETWORK?
- MERANCAS FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $900,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ALEXANDER YOUTH NETWORK find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 69 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