Texas · Nonprofit
AMERICAN YOUTHWORKS
AMERICAN YOUTHWORKS (Texas) receives grants from 56 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,435,816 to it, the largest being The Corps Network ($3,697,009). 33 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $12M
- Funders on record
- 56
- Grants received
- $16M
- Net assets
- $5.2M
What American Youthworks does
Mission
American Youthworks (ayw) annually provides 400+ young adults with training and resources to build careers and strengthen their communities through education, paid career training, and national service. Ayw programs prepare participants for high demand career sectors and skilled trades, while addressing critical needs throughout urban and rural communities through projects and partnerships.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
American Youthworks youthbuild (ayw-yb) pre-apprenticeship program annually engages 200+ young adults ages 17-24 with the education, job skills training, and support needed to build successful careers in skilled trades and other high-demand industries. Based in austin with an operating site in taylor, tx, ayw-yb serves individuals who may be disconnected from school or work, offering an integrated approach that includes ged or high school diploma completion, career development, and access to support services such as job placement assistance, mental health resources, and childcare. Participants develop personalized learning and career plans with program staff and earn certifications and work experience in fields such as construction, healthcare, and manufacturing/it. Participants gain career skills while completing service projects, such as building affordable housing, providing access to technology and community health care. Many participants are from communities with limited access to opportunities and face additional challenges including housing instability, parenting responsibilities, or previous court involvement. At ayw-yb, participants learn skills needed to overcome…
$4,073,363 spent$2,249,695 earned by the program38% of program spendingAmerican Youthworks conservation corps (ayw-cc) engages young adults ages 17-35 in paid career training and workforce development through service projects that meet critical community needs. Based in austin, tx, with additional sites in houston, baton rouge, northwest arkansas, and oklahoma, ayw-cc serves over 200 participants annually.participants gain work experience and earn industry-recognized certifications while completing and leading projects in disaster response and recovery, wildfire prevention, improving public access to recreation, trail building, safety and maintenance, habitat restoration and land management, and wetland and coastal restoration. By workingalongside and learning directly from professionals in the field, participants access career connections in related industries. Through strong partnerships, ayw-cc projects support the initiatives of city, county, state, national emergency management agencies to maintainpublic parks, waterways, and forests. Ayw-cc crews contribute to public infrastructure, expand safe recreational access, manage land and natural resources, and support disaster recovery efforts across the country. The program prepares participants by…
$6,651,833 spent$1,404,278 earned by the program62% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $10,725,196.
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 2022 to 2023, from $6.5M to $7.3M (+12%).
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 84% · 2018 78% · 2019 59% · 2020 29% · 2021 54% · 2022 40% · 2023 47% · 2024 54%. 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 8 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
Michael Parc Smith
Chief executive officer
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 16 funders to 24 funders, grant income rose $1.5M → $2.4M.
9 of 56 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 AMERICAN YOUTHWORKS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 56 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
AMERICAN YOUTHWORKS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% 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
80% 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 AMERICAN YOUTHWORKS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 47% · 2018 50% · 2019 38% · 2020 34% · 2021 31% · 2022 14% · 2023 22% — 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
53% of AMERICAN YOUTHWORKS'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
AMERICAN YOUTHWORKS draws 67% of its grant income from funders outside Texas, across 14 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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 AMERICAN YOUTHWORKS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $33.9M on record.
- Corporation for National and Community Service$19.1M
- Department of Labor$6.2M
- Department of Agriculture$5.1M
- Department of the Interior$3.5M
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 AMERICAN YOUTHWORKS
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Acsre Inc · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AMERICAN YOUTHWORKS: 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 AMERICAN YOUTHWORKS?
- AMERICAN YOUTHWORKS (Texas) receives grants from 56 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,435,816 to it, the largest being The Corps Network ($3,697,009). 33 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AMERICAN YOUTHWORKS have?
- IRS filings report 56 organizations giving $16,435,816 in grants to AMERICAN YOUTHWORKS, 33 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AMERICAN YOUTHWORKS?
- The Corps Network is the largest funder on record, with $3,697,009 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AMERICAN YOUTHWORKS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 56 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