Skip to content
Ask
← FundingAlso makes grants — grantmaker profile →

Massachusetts · Nonprofit

ALTERNATIVES FOR YOUTH FOUNDATION INC

ALTERNATIVES FOR YOUTH FOUNDATION INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $7,234,432 to it, the largest being THE KEY PROGRAM INCORPORATED ($7,234,432). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$1.6M
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$7.2M
Net assets
$44M
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 95%
01The 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 ($953k) Expenses 100 ($518k) Net assets 100 ($20M)2018 Revenue 260 ($2.5M) Expenses 93 ($483k) Net assets 116 ($23M)2019 Revenue 128 ($1.2M) Expenses 95 ($493k) Net assets 121 ($24M)2020 Revenue 42 ($403k) Expenses 98 ($507k) Net assets 124 ($25M)2021 Revenue 317 ($3.0M) Expenses 303 ($1.6M) Net assets 165 ($33M)2022 Revenue 275 ($2.6M) Expenses 57 ($293k) Net assets 157 ($31M)2023 Revenue 65 ($623k) Expenses 64 ($333k) Net assets 172 ($34M)2024 Revenue 197 ($1.9M) Expenses 116 ($599k) Net assets 199 ($39M)2025 Revenue 165 ($1.6M) Expenses 145 ($750k) Net assets 223 ($44M)
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
Revenue (165)Expenses (145)Net assets (223)

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
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$435k
’17
$2.0M
’18
$727k
’19
−$104k
’20
$1.5M
’21
$2.3M
’22
$290k
’23
$1.3M
’24
$821k
’25
12
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $1.4M → $2.5M.

Funder
'18
'19
'21
'22
'24*
'25*
total
funders
1
1
1
1
1
1

From the IRS filings of ALTERNATIVES FOR YOUTH FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation.

Where its funders are

100% of ALTERNATIVES FOR YOUTH FOUNDATION INC's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.

MA

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

’18
’19
’21
’22
Massachusetts out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing.

03Its place in the field

Organizations like ALTERNATIVES FOR YOUTH FOUNDATION 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 Massachusetts

The Key Program Incorporated86%Crossroads for Kids Inc83%Southcoast Mentoring Initiative for Learning Education and Service Inc82%Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound Inc81%Alliance Health Inc81%Foundation for Boston Centers for Youth & Families Inc81%Massachusetts Advocates for Children Inc81%Jewish Family & Children's Foundation Inc80%

Nationally

The Key Program Incorporated86%Crossroads for Kids Inc83%Alternatives for Youth Inc82%Directions for Our Youth Inc82%Southcoast Mentoring Initiative for Learning Education and Service Inc82%Alexander Children's Foundation Inc82%Alternatives Inc81%Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound Inc81%
04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

77% of spending goes to programs.

Program 77%Management 23%Fundraising 0%

Governance

11
board members
91%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MA

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • The Key Program Incorporated · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ALTERNATIVES FOR YOUTH FOUNDATION INC: 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.

A paid feature, included from the $75 plan up. Sign in to download.

Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds ALTERNATIVES FOR YOUTH FOUNDATION INC?
ALTERNATIVES FOR YOUTH FOUNDATION INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $7,234,432 to it, the largest being THE KEY PROGRAM INCORPORATED ($7,234,432). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ALTERNATIVES FOR YOUTH FOUNDATION INC have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $7,234,432 in grants to ALTERNATIVES FOR YOUTH FOUNDATION INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ALTERNATIVES FOR YOUTH FOUNDATION INC?
THE KEY PROGRAM INCORPORATED is the largest funder on record, with $7,234,432 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ALTERNATIVES FOR YOUTH FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 1 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. What this page cannot tell you · view filing