Massachusetts · Nonprofit
BOSTON YOUTH SANCTUARY INC
BOSTON YOUTH SANCTUARY INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,788,008 to it, the largest being KARP FAMILY FOUNDATION STEPHEN R AND JILL E KARP TRUSTEES ($3,363,830). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $465k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $3.8M
- Net assets
- $81k
What Boston Youth Sanctuary Inc does
Program
Specializing in the implementation of sustainable community support networks and the teaching of lifelong coping skills for at-risk youth. Building self-esteem and pride in the community. Providing excellent clinical care in one multi-functional facility. Giving youth and families hope for the future.
$717,671 spent
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-PF.
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 2019 to 2020, from $560k to $229k (−59%).
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 4 funders, grant income rose $51k → $1.1M.
3 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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 BOSTON YOUTH SANCTUARY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
BOSTON YOUTH SANCTUARY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 89% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 55% · 2019 81% · 2020 89% · 2021 96% · 2022 91% · 2023 92% — growing more concentrated.
“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
33% of BOSTON YOUTH SANCTUARY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% 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
100% of BOSTON YOUTH SANCTUARY INC's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $336k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
BOSTON YOUTH SANCTUARY INC's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,688 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like BOSTON YOUTH SANCTUARY 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
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BOSTON YOUTH SANCTUARY INC?
- BOSTON YOUTH SANCTUARY INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,788,008 to it, the largest being KARP FAMILY FOUNDATION STEPHEN R AND JILL E KARP TRUSTEES ($3,363,830). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BOSTON YOUTH SANCTUARY INC have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $3,788,008 in grants to BOSTON YOUTH SANCTUARY INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BOSTON YOUTH SANCTUARY INC?
- KARP FAMILY FOUNDATION STEPHEN R AND JILL E KARP TRUSTEES is the largest funder on record, with $3,363,830 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BOSTON YOUTH SANCTUARY 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.
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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 9 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing