New Jersey · Nonprofit
Catholic Youth Organization of Mercer County
Catholic Youth Organization of Mercer County (New Jersey) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $275,112 to it, the largest being Princeton Area Community Foundation Inc ($91,500). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.7M
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $275k
- Net assets
- $7.7M
What Catholic Youth Organization of Mercer County does
Mission
The Catholic Youth Organization of Mercer County enhances the lives of Greater Mercer County youth and their families by providing affordable educational and recreational services.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
South Broad Street Trenton preschool program: Full day care services for children ages 3 to 5 Monday through Friday from 7:30 am to 5:30 pm year round. This includes breakfast, lunch and snacks at no cost to Trenton residents. 90 children are being served.South Broad Street Trenton after school program: Supervised educational and recreational enrichment activities for children ages 5 - 12, 2:30 to 5:30 pm on sliding fee during the school year, including transportation and snacks for about 90 children.
$2,166,047 spent$2,314,924 earned by the program38% of program spendingYardville Summer camp: Supervised educational and recreational day camp for children ages 5-12, Monday through Friday from 9 am to 4 pm mid-June through August. Extended care is available. About 350 children are served in both full & part season programs Yardville preschool program: Full day care services for children ages 3 to 5 Monday through Friday from 7:30 am to 5:30 pm during school year. Includes lunch and snacks. Fees are not subsidized. Yardville afterschool program is for ages 5 to 12 and services about 50 children.Yardville is not in the food program, however 160 children in the 4 school sites get an afternoon snack and are in the food program.
$1,487,536 spent$1,791,030 earned by the program26% of program spendingEwing pre-school and summer camp. Full day care for 3 to 5 year olds. Monday through Friday from 7:30 am to 5:30 pm
$1,189,232 spent$385,011 earned by the program21% of program spendingEast State Street pre-school: Full day, week, and year program served 10 students. Hours from 7:30 am to 5:30 pm for 2.5 to 5 year olds. Free breakfast, lunch and snack are provided. East State Street after-school: 5-12 year olds, 70 students served. East State Street Summer camp: Monday through Friday for 9 weeks. 5-12 year olds, 7:30 am to 5:30 pm, 80 students participated.
$798,947 spent$954,619 earned by the program14% of program spendingBromley Center: Evening youth program, computer lab, drop in tutoring, and summer camp, with subsidized fees.
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,641,762.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2021 to 2022, from $5.6M to $6.6M (+18%).
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: 2018 34% · 2019 39% · 2021 57% · 2022 33% · 2023 17% · 2024 5% · 2025 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 7 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
Thomas Mladenetz
Exec. Director
Board chair
Arthur J Caola
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 11 funders, grant income rose $7k → $27k.
5 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 52% 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 Catholic Youth Organization of Mercer County’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 15 of 16 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
Catholic Youth Organization of Mercer County leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
58% 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 Catholic Youth Organization of Mercer County.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 60% · 2019 49% · 2020 51% · 2021 44% · 2022 60% · 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
67% of Catholic Youth Organization of Mercer County's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 75% 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
52% of Catholic Youth Organization of Mercer County's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $133k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from New Jersey funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $142k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.
Organizations like Catholic Youth Organization of Mercer County
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 New Jersey
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Roman Catholic Diocese of Trenton · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Catholic Youth Organization of Mercer County?
- Catholic Youth Organization of Mercer County (New Jersey) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $275,112 to it, the largest being Princeton Area Community Foundation Inc ($91,500). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Catholic Youth Organization of Mercer County have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $275,112 in grants to Catholic Youth Organization of Mercer County, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Catholic Youth Organization of Mercer County?
- Princeton Area Community Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $91,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Catholic Youth Organization of Mercer County find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 16 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