Texas · Nonprofit
Collective Action for Youth
Collective Action for Youth (Texas) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,162,342 to it, the largest being HOUSTON ENDOWMENT INC ($2,715,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.8M
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $5.2M
- Net assets
- $801k
What Collective Action for Youth does
Mission
The mission of Collective Action for Youth CA4Y or Organization is to leverage community power and center youth voices for equitable, systemic solutions based in shared leadership, responsibility and accountability. We do this by centering the experiences of impacted people to transform systems and create solutions.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Through collective trainings, intimate organizational trainings, webinars, and other forms of education CA4Y facilitated the development of a standard for engagement and outcomes for those working with youth currently in or engaging with adjacent systems.
$1,469,730 spentof which $1,076,647 as grants$130,429 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,469,730.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2022 to 2023, from $1.7M to $1.2M (−28%).
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.
95% of Collective Action for Youth’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base narrowed from 7 funders to 6 funders, grant income fell $2.0M → $1.5M.
2 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 Collective Action for Youth’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
Collective Action for Youth leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
30% 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 Collective Action for Youth.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 50% · 2023 65% — 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.
Where its funders are
84% of Collective Action for Youth's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $117k 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
Collective Action for Youth is better cushioned than half of the 1,928 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,928 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding Collective Action for Youth receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $523k on record.
- Department of Justice$523k
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 Collective Action for Youth
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
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 Collective Action for Youth: 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 Collective Action for Youth?
- Collective Action for Youth (Texas) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,162,342 to it, the largest being HOUSTON ENDOWMENT INC ($2,715,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Collective Action for Youth have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $5,162,342 in grants to Collective Action for Youth, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Collective Action for Youth?
- HOUSTON ENDOWMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,715,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Collective Action for Youth find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 2021–2024), and the filings of 11 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