New York · Nonprofit
COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS FOR YOUTH INC
COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS FOR YOUTH INC (New York) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,311,208 to it, the largest being PINKERTON FOUNDATION ($1,800,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 26
- Grants received
- $6.3M
- Net assets
- $1.0M
What Community Connections for Youth Inc does
Mission
Through community-led alternatives to incarceration, we are on a mission to disrupt the youth prison pipeline by delivering direct support, advocacy, mentoring, training and building partnerships. Our dream is to see local communities take the lead in creating a future where no child is behind bars.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Youth and family programs - ccfy strongly believes that family engagement is a critical piece of supporting the diversion of young people away from the juvenile justice system. Ccfy's parent peer support program provides parents of system-involved youth with peer coaches to guide them through their child's involvement in the court system. Ccfy's family strengthening program engages parents and their young people in monthly support groups, ongoing parenting workshops, advocacy training, and family strengthening sessions.ccfy's youth development department collaborates with local schools, community, and faith-based organizations to provide strengths-based alternative-to-incarceration and alternative-to-suspension programming for at-risk youth. Ccfy's south bronx community connections initiative provides early diversion programming for court-involved youth through which they are connected to positive youth development activities and group mentoring activities. Ccfy's 4as program features an intensive leadership development curriculum for youth to develop their mentoring skills and prepare them to become "credible messengers" for other youth.
$651,053 spentof which $14,411 as grants64% of program spendingTraining and technical assistance - in cities across the united states, ccfy provides expert consultation to system and community stakeholders seeking to implement community capacity building projects for juvenile justice reform. Ccfy's training and technical assistance includes: (1) facilitating partnerships between system and community stakeholders to develop community-based alternatives to incarceration; (2) consulting with juvenile justice agencies to improve family engagement, cultural competence, and positive youth development through partnerships with community organizations; and (3) growing programmatic and organizational capacity of grassroots faith and neighborhood organizations that serve youth in the juvenile justice system.
$372,308 spentof which $1,095 as grants$267,905 earned by the program36% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,023,361.
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 2024 to 2025, from $2.0M to $1.5M (−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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 29% · 2018 55% · 2019 60% · 2020 41% · 2021 21% · 2022 23% · 2025 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
71% of COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS FOR YOUTH INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (93% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Belinda Ramos
Executive director
Board chair
Hernan Carvente Martinez
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $460k → $1.0M.
5 of 26 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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 COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS FOR YOUTH 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
COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS FOR YOUTH INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 29% of grant income and the top three 63%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 71% · 2018 28% · 2019 44% · 2020 43% · 2021 38% · 2022 64% · 2023 49% — 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
36% of COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS FOR YOUTH INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
61% of COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS FOR YOUTH INC's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $453k 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.
Against its field
COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS FOR YOUTH INC is better cushioned than half of the 852 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 852 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS FOR YOUTH INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $500k on record.
- Department of Justice$500k
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 COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS FOR YOUTH INC
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 York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
61% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
54%
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 COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS FOR YOUTH 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 COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS FOR YOUTH INC?
- COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS FOR YOUTH INC (New York) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,311,208 to it, the largest being PINKERTON FOUNDATION ($1,800,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS FOR YOUTH INC have?
- IRS filings report 26 organizations giving $6,311,208 in grants to COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS FOR YOUTH INC, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS FOR YOUTH INC?
- PINKERTON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,800,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS FOR YOUTH INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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 26 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing