New York · Nonprofit
EXALT YOUTH
EXALT YOUTH (New York) receives grants from 76 organizations whose IRS filings report $19,753,248 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($5,085,000). 43 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.4M
- Funders on record
- 76
- Grants received
- $20M
- Net assets
- $3.6M
What Exalt Youth does
Mission
Exalt Youth serves youth involved in the criminal justice system, moving them away from incarceration towards re-engagement with education and meaningful job opportunities. Our students come from some of the most economically depressed neighborhoods in new york and are often facing potentially life altering circumstances. The exalt mission combines a rigorous curriculum with paid internships and career development to elevate expectations of personal success for court-involved youth ages 15-19. Exalt tracks participant outcomes in three specific areas: 1) criminal justice avoidance; 2) academic progression; and 3) employability. Our model is built upon our tested incubation period at the blue ridge foundation in 2006 and gold star evaluation by john jay research and evaluation center in 2013.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Exalt Youth is an organization designed specifically for youth involved in the criminal justice system. We serve youth ages 15-19 annually, 78% male, 21% female, and 1% unknown. Program participants come from new york city's poorest zip codes, and all face a host of barriers such as multi-generational poverty, foster care involvement, low educational skills, incarcerated parent(s), racial marginalization, and living in households with little support in which they are often caregivers for siblings or sick relatives. Exalt's signature 21-week core program is designed to address three primary factors: criminal justice avoidance, educational attainment, and employability. The program consists of the following four components: 1) foundational life skills (critical thinking, communication, creative problem-solving, and resource management through pre- and post-internship classes); 2) individualized planning and support (goal setting and effective education/court advocacy strategies to help students successfully navigate the educational and legal systems); 3) paid internships (exposure to diverse career opportunities through our partnerships with over 100 businesses across nyc); and 4)…
$5,807,592 spentof which $50,038 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $5,807,592.
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 $4.1M to $8.3M (+102%).
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 2% · 2018 1% · 2019 8% · 2020 3% · 2021 22% · 2022 12% · 2023 16% · 2024 28% · 2025 23%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
101% of EXALT YOUTH’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (82% 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
Gisele Castro
Chief executive officer
Board chair
Yumari L Martinez
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 34 funders, grant income rose $412k → $4.1M.
18 of 76 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% 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 EXALT YOUTH’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 76 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
EXALT YOUTH has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
48% 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 EXALT YOUTH.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 26% · 2018 21% · 2019 16% · 2020 27% · 2021 10% · 2022 44% · 2023 41% — 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.
How long its funders stay
42% of EXALT YOUTH's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
83% of EXALT YOUTH'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. $6.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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
EXALT YOUTH has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,152 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,152 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like EXALT 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 New York
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
85%
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 EXALT 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 EXALT YOUTH?
- EXALT YOUTH (New York) receives grants from 76 organizations whose IRS filings report $19,753,248 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($5,085,000). 43 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does EXALT YOUTH have?
- IRS filings report 76 organizations giving $19,753,248 in grants to EXALT YOUTH, 43 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EXALT YOUTH?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $5,085,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EXALT YOUTH 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.
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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 76 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