Vermont · Nonprofit
ELEVATE YOUTH SERVICES INC
ELEVATE YOUTH SERVICES INC (Vermont) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $710,059 to it, the largest being BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF BURLINGTON INC ($194,730). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.7M
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $710k
- Net assets
- $540k
What Elevate Youth Services Inc does
Mission
Elevate's mission is to promote safety, competence, and confidence as youth create their path through adolescence and into adulthood.elevate provides a wide range of innovative and effective programs that empower and enrich the lives of youth and families in washington county, and to provide leadership and support to other youth programs throughout vermont. Elevate's philosophy is one that respects young people and encourages each one to find and build on their strengths and unique gifts. Using a positive youth development approach, our dedicated staff work in partnership with youth to identify the developmental supports and opportunities that promote success, rather than on eliminating the factors that promote failure.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Elevate youth services provides an integrated continuum of care for youth ages 12-24, grounded in relationship, stability, and real-world support. Young people are not expected to navigate systems on their own. Our programs are designed to meet them where they are and move with them as their needs change. Our homeless youth housing programs offer both immediate safety and longer-term stability. This includes emergency shelter for youth who cannot safely remain at home, as well as transitional housing for young people working toward independence. Youth receive individualized case management, life skills support, and consistent adult connection, with an emphasis on choice, dignity, and building a sense of home. Country roads provides counseling, family support, crisis response, and short-term shelter for youth in acute situations. The program works closely with young people and their caregivers to stabilize crises, strengthen relationships, and create safer, more sustainable paths forward. Return house is a 24-hour residential program for young people who are aging out of dcf custody and need a stable, supportive place to land. The program provides structure, relationship, and daily…
$4,843,582 spentof which $1,938,035 as grants$1,825,215 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $4,843,582.
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 2023 to 2024, from $182k to $1.6M (+791%).
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 52% · 2018 50% · 2019 61% · 2020 80% · 2021 77% · 2022 81% · 2023 76% · 2024 77% · 2025 63%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
68% of ELEVATE YOUTH SERVICES INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Kreig Pinkham
Exec. Dir.
Board chair
Paul Richardson
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 8 funders, grant income fell $137k → $125k.
3 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 ELEVATE 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
ELEVATE YOUTH SERVICES INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
80% 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 ELEVATE YOUTH SERVICES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 32% · 2018 32% · 2019 46% · 2020 61% · 2021 32% · 2022 52% · 2023 28% — 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
27% of ELEVATE YOUTH SERVICES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
68% of ELEVATE YOUTH SERVICES INC's grant income comes from Vermont funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $100k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
ELEVATE YOUTH SERVICES INC receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $710k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding ELEVATE YOUTH SERVICES INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $19.6M on record — $10.1M federal, $9.5M state.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$5.1M
- Department of Health and Human Services$4.8M
- Corporation for National and Community Service$232k
- IV-E Independent Living$3.3M
- Youth Development - GF$2.9M
- Other Grants$889k
- Homeless Assistance HOP$763k
- Sub Care-In St Intensive$493k
- Substance Abuse Treatment$402k
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 ELEVATE YOUTH SERVICES 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 Vermont
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 ELEVATE 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 ELEVATE YOUTH SERVICES INC?
- ELEVATE YOUTH SERVICES INC (Vermont) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $710,059 to it, the largest being BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF BURLINGTON INC ($194,730). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ELEVATE YOUTH SERVICES INC have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $710,059 in grants to ELEVATE YOUTH SERVICES INC, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ELEVATE YOUTH SERVICES INC?
- BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF BURLINGTON INC is the largest funder on record, with $194,730 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ELEVATE YOUTH SERVICES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Vermont. 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 19 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