Michigan · Nonprofit
AYA YOUTH COLLECTIVE
AYA YOUTH COLLECTIVE (Michigan) receives grants from 64 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,519,010 to it, the largest being HEART OF WEST MICHIGAN UNITED WAY ($492,348). 33 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.1M
- Funders on record
- 64
- Grants received
- $4.5M
- Net assets
- $3.6M
What Aya Youth Collective does
Mission
We create communities, rooted in belonging, for youth experiencing instability to own their future.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Aya (as you are) youth collective is a 501c3 that supports youth ages 14-24 experiencing instability in achieving their full potential by creating community and belonging. More specifically, aya facilitates youth development opportunities through low-barrier access to mental health, workforce development, housing, crisis stability, case management support, community referrals, financial literacy training, access to medical and dental care, vital document recovery, and much more.
$3,531,868 spentof which $469,465 as grants$54,477 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,531,868.
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 2024 to 2025, from $4.3M to $5.1M (+17%).
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: 2021 13% · 2022 0% · 2023 12% · 2024 33% · 2025 33%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of AYA YOUTH COLLECTIVE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (39% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Lauren Vankeulen
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 27 funders, grant income rose $200 → $799k.
15 of 64 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% 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 AYA YOUTH COLLECTIVE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 64 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
AYA YOUTH COLLECTIVE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 11% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
54% 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 AYA YOUTH COLLECTIVE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 40% · 2020 24% · 2021 15% · 2022 27% · 2023 19% — 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
50% of AYA YOUTH COLLECTIVE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% 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
86% of AYA YOUTH COLLECTIVE's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.4M 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
AYA YOUTH COLLECTIVE has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,367 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,367 housing & shelter nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding AYA YOUTH COLLECTIVE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.1M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$1.8M
- Department of Health and Human Services$350k
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 AYA YOUTH COLLECTIVE
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 Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% 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
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AYA YOUTH COLLECTIVE: 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 AYA YOUTH COLLECTIVE?
- AYA YOUTH COLLECTIVE (Michigan) receives grants from 64 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,519,010 to it, the largest being HEART OF WEST MICHIGAN UNITED WAY ($492,348). 33 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AYA YOUTH COLLECTIVE have?
- IRS filings report 64 organizations giving $4,519,010 in grants to AYA YOUTH COLLECTIVE, 33 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AYA YOUTH COLLECTIVE?
- HEART OF WEST MICHIGAN UNITED WAY is the largest funder on record, with $492,348 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AYA YOUTH COLLECTIVE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 64 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