Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
FAMILY AND YOUTH INITIATIVE INC
FAMILY AND YOUTH INITIATIVE INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $750,785 to it, the largest being GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($214,881). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $471k
- Funders on record
- 24
- Grants received
- $751k
- Net assets
- $253k
What Family and Youth Initiative Inc does
Mission
Family & Youth Initiative creates a supportive community and lasting relationships for teens and young adults who are in or have aged out of foster care. We believe that every child deserves family and are committed to increasing the number of teens who find adoptive families or develop what become lifelong relationships with other supportive adults.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Family and Youth Initiative helps teens in foster care find adoptive families and develop lasting connections with other caring adults. Monthly program events bring together teens and adults to form relationships. We recruit and train volunteer mentors, host families, Committed Community Members, and event drivers; participating adoptive families complete their training and home study with a partner agency. We match teens and adults based on relationships that start at events. Adult volunteers make a specific commitment to length and intensity of time they will spend with teen once matched. Youth who age out of foster care continue to participate with DCFYI and keep their connections for as long as they want. Every participating teen or young adult develops at least one meaningful and lasting relationship with a caring adult.
$197,528 spent70% of program spendingFamily and Youth Initiative is supporting a dedicated group of Lived Experts (young people with the lived experience of being or having been in DC foster care) who are creating a new and innovative permanency option for older youth who are in foster care. The Lived Experts are designing the "SOUL" permanency option in conjunction with professional partners, primarily at DC Child and Family Services Agency, the office of the DC Attorney General, and Children's Law Center. They are proud of having been able to use their experience and voice to create a better path out of foster care for other youth now and into the future. We are proud to be supporting them (and the other agencies) in this work.
$31,348 spent11% of program spendingIn the Open Table program, we recruit, train, and match six to eight volunteers with one young adult who has aged out of foster care. Tables build relationships with the young person (or "Friend") and support them in achieving whatever goal/s they set for themselves. Tables meet weekly for a year. Some Friends and volunteers continue in their relationships after the formal Table year ends.
$43,290 spent15% of program spendingThe Fund for Critical Youth Needs is used to ensure DCFYI youth are able to cover critical needs like housing, transportation, medications, and/or job-related expenses (including clothing and transportation until they receive a first paycheck.
$9,035 spent3% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $281,201.
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 $194k to $253k (+31%).
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.
96% of FAMILY AND YOUTH INITIATIVE INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 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
Susan Punnett
Executive Director
Board chair
Michele Reed
Director and Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $28k → $110k.
8 of 24 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 64% 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 FAMILY AND YOUTH INITIATIVE 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
FAMILY AND YOUTH INITIATIVE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 29% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
64% 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 FAMILY AND YOUTH INITIATIVE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 71% · 2018 89% · 2019 36% · 2020 24% · 2021 26% · 2022 55% · 2023 19% — 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
67% of FAMILY AND YOUTH INITIATIVE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 75% 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
64% of FAMILY AND YOUTH INITIATIVE INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $272k that is directly attributable, 77% of it comes from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 10 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $478k 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
FAMILY AND YOUTH INITIATIVE INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 21,648 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,648 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like FAMILY AND YOUTH INITIATIVE 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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
68% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 18 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FAMILY AND YOUTH INITIATIVE 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 FAMILY AND YOUTH INITIATIVE INC?
- FAMILY AND YOUTH INITIATIVE INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $750,785 to it, the largest being GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($214,881). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FAMILY AND YOUTH INITIATIVE INC have?
- IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $750,785 in grants to FAMILY AND YOUTH INITIATIVE INC, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FAMILY AND YOUTH INITIATIVE INC?
- GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $214,881 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FAMILY AND YOUTH INITIATIVE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 24 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