California · Nonprofit
Catalyst Youth Network
Catalyst Youth Network (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $88,110 to it, the largest being The Louderback Family Foundation ($85,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $156k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $88k
- Net assets
- $69k
What Catalyst Youth Network does
Mission
help bring equity of opportunity and resources to the historically underserved youth of Oakland California. By establishing a shared network of community partners training volunteers and mentoring youth CYN is closing the gaps between existing services and bridging resources with teenagers in need.From career coaching to internship placement to mental health services Catalyst provides each child with holistic and tailored solutions to help them achieve their dreams.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Career Bridge Summer Internships provides paid internships for underserved Oakland-area youth giving them their first professional work experience along with mentorship and career coaching. In 2025 45 youth completed paid internships earning 31,488 in stipends.
$34,812 spent64% of program spendingThe Catalyst Youth Center provided a secure nurturing space for youth staffed by mentors and offering mental health resources and leadership development opportunities. The Youth Center paused operations mid-year and was replaced by the Leadership Academy a structured program for youth to build leadership skills peer relationships and a sense of agency in their community. In 2025 26 youth participated in the youth center and 6 participated in the Leadership Academy two cohorts of 3
$13,985 spent26% of program spendingCareer Bridge Workshops provide economic opportunity to underserved youth through job training resume writing mock interviews and one-on-one career coaching. In 2025 70 youth participated in our workshop programming.
$5,219 spent10% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $54,016.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2023 to 2024, from $41k to $61k (+47%).
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.
83% of Catalyst Youth Network’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Robert Rickett
Executive Director
Board chair
Matthew Wadleigh
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $54 → $36k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 Catalyst Youth Network’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
Catalyst Youth Network leans on a few funders — its largest provides 96% of grant income and the top three 100%; 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: 2022 100% · 2023 98% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
Catalyst Youth Network draws 97% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 2 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $110 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
Catalyst Youth Network has grown faster than three-quarters of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Catalyst 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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
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 Catalyst 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 Catalyst Youth Network?
- Catalyst Youth Network (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $88,110 to it, the largest being The Louderback Family Foundation ($85,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Catalyst Youth Network have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $88,110 in grants to Catalyst Youth Network, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Catalyst Youth Network?
- The Louderback Family Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $85,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Catalyst Youth Network find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2022–2025), and the filings of 4 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