California · Nonprofit
CENTINELA YOUTH SERVICES INC
CENTINELA YOUTH SERVICES INC (California) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,938,073 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,057,440). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 87% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.8M
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $4.9M
- Net assets
- $3.9M
What Centinela Youth Services Inc does
Mission
Centinela youth services strengthens families and communities and helps build successful students and productive adults, leveraging the principles of restorative justice to empower peaceful conflict resolution.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Cys diverts youth out of the justice system and into community-based supportive services and restorative justice to make things right with the harmed party. Services include restorative justice mediation, family mediation, community/school mediation and restorative circles, service navigation, clinical case management and training for educators and justice professionals.cys outcomes: low recidivism rate - only 11% of cys's participating youth are re-arrested within 12-months, compared with 65% of youth served by the court system; 72% of youth who completed clinical case management services lowered their risk of recidivism within just 3-6 months of service; 99% of mediations resulted in an agreement for restitution; 98% of victims served report high satisfaction with the program; and 96% of referred youth report program satisfaction; student arrests in partner school districts are cut by over 90% within five (5) years; crime victims are better served by cys with 86% of restitution agreements completed in full and monetary restitutions received at much higher levels than through the courts.
$3,207,844 spent$36,403 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,207,844.
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 2023 to 2024, from $1.7M to $3.9M (+125%).
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 79% · 2018 73% · 2019 69% · 2020 60% · 2021 86% · 2022 73% · 2023 88% · 2024 61% · 2025 88%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 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
Jessica Ellis
Executive director
Board chair
Bernadette Suarez
President/chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income rose $17k → $80k.
4 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 87% 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 CENTINELA YOUTH SERVICES 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
CENTINELA YOUTH SERVICES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
90% 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 CENTINELA YOUTH SERVICES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 58% · 2018 91% · 2019 49% · 2020 58% · 2021 47% · 2022 38% · 2023 44% — 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
30% of CENTINELA YOUTH SERVICES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% 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
87% of CENTINELA YOUTH SERVICES INC'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 $624k that is directly attributable, 84% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.3M 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 CENTINELA YOUTH SERVICES INC
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In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
72% 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 CENTINELA YOUTH SERVICES INC: 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 CENTINELA YOUTH SERVICES INC?
- CENTINELA YOUTH SERVICES INC (California) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,938,073 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,057,440). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 87% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CENTINELA YOUTH SERVICES INC have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $4,938,073 in grants to CENTINELA YOUTH SERVICES INC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CENTINELA YOUTH SERVICES INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $2,057,440 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CENTINELA YOUTH SERVICES INC 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 17 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