Ohio · Nonprofit
Cincinnati Youth Collaborative
Cincinnati Youth Collaborative (Ohio) receives grants from 88 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,074,651 to it, the largest being THE GREATER CINCINNATI FOUNDATION ($2,355,415). 46 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.0M
- Funders on record
- 88
- Grants received
- $7.1M
- Net assets
- $3.5M
What Cincinnati Youth Collaborative does
Mission
Cincinnati Youth Collaborative ("CYC") empowers young people to overcome barriers and excel in education, career, and life.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
During the 20242025 academic year, Cincinnati Youth Collaborative (CYC) helped thousands of young people move closer to brighter futures:CYC served 5,000+ students across four Cincinnati school districts94% of CYC seniors graduated on time, outperforming the regional average by more than 10%100+ business and community partners invested time, expertise, and resourcesOver 1,200 volunteers served CYC and our students in numerous waysThrough CYCs R.E.A.C.H. outcomes measurement model, CYC students showed meaningful growth in confidence, clarity and connection:95.5% better understand who they are and how to make good choices91.6% feel more sure of themselves and their skills95.5% have set at least one personal goal87.4% gained a new caring adult in their life96.4% feel more hopeful for their futurePROGRAMS CYC FACILITATED IN 2024-25 TO ENSURE STUDENT SUCCESSCollege Readiness and SuccessCYC provides individualized guidance to help students explore post-secondary options and plan for future success. CYC programs supply support and mentoring to ensure graduation and a successful post-secondary transition.The GEAR UP program operated in partnership with Mount Healthy City School District…
$3,194,433 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,194,433.
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 2021 to 2022, from $4.3M to $3.6M (−15%).
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 47% · 2018 37% · 2020 38% · 2021 60% · 2022 38% · 2023 41% · 2024 37% · 2025 39%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
73% of Cincinnati Youth Collaborative’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
Amy Thompson
CEO President
Board chair
Tom Marth
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 26 funders to 32 funders, grant income fell $926k → $911k.
10 of 88 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 40% 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 Cincinnati Youth Collaborative’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 88 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
Cincinnati Youth Collaborative leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 57%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
62% 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 Cincinnati Youth Collaborative.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 34% · 2018 39% · 2019 39% · 2020 48% · 2021 34% · 2022 43% · 2023 35% — 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.
How long its funders stay
24% of Cincinnati Youth Collaborative'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
72% of Cincinnati Youth Collaborative's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
Cincinnati Youth Collaborative's revenue grew 35% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding Cincinnati Youth Collaborative receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.6M on record.
- Department of Education$1.6M
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 Cincinnati Youth Collaborative
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 Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Cincinnati Youth Collaborative: 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 Cincinnati Youth Collaborative?
- Cincinnati Youth Collaborative (Ohio) receives grants from 88 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,074,651 to it, the largest being THE GREATER CINCINNATI FOUNDATION ($2,355,415). 46 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Cincinnati Youth Collaborative have?
- IRS filings report 88 organizations giving $7,074,651 in grants to Cincinnati Youth Collaborative, 46 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Cincinnati Youth Collaborative?
- THE GREATER CINCINNATI FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,355,415 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Cincinnati Youth Collaborative find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 88 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