Missouri · Nonprofit
FERGUSON YOUTH INITIATIVE
FERGUSON YOUTH INITIATIVE (Missouri) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $56,094 to it, the largest being ST LOUIS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($16,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $94k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $56k
- Net assets
- $-5296
What Ferguson Youth Initiative does
Mission
Our mission is to serve the youth of the ferguson community by encouraging them and engaging them as active members of the community, developing programs as needed, and further communicating and partnering with existing community youth programs.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Slam: slam offers young people inviting and positive opportunities to connect with others through healthy, creative epression and recreation on a monthly basis. Young people gather to witness professional artists in action. Guests are also able to learn techniques & try their hand in it. Basically, slam is an open mic night just for young people once every month, we give young people the mic, the stage and/or whatever platform needed. We welcome art in all forms: painting, singing karaoke, singing / rapping original music, poetry, cooking demos and more
$12,579 spent20% of program spendingFerguson youth advisory board: ferguson youth advisory board members provide insight and feedback on issues relating to youth in the community. They are the official youth voice of fyi and help determine how we use our energies and resources to benefit the public. Fyab members receive perks, including free admission to all fyi events, discounts on fyi apparel, and special access to adventure activities and job opportunities. They are also eligible for the gail babcock scholarship in their senior year.
$15,664 spent25% of program spendingDrop in: the drop-in provides an after-school open house at the fyi backbay for free-standing and structured workshops. Youth have access to art materials and a space in which to work; access to a bank of computers; xbox, wii and playstation games; foosball, air-hockey and other free-standing game tables; a lending library; and access to tutors as needed. Drop-in occurs at st. Peter's church on thursdays and the fyi backbay on fridays for teens in grades 8-12. St. Peter's offers youth an open gym on thursdays. At the fyi backbay, youth have access to computers, tutors and art materials in free?standing and structured creative activities. There are few venues in ferguson where teens might gather to engage in the arts, build self-efficacy and develop positive support systems. According to research, youth that do not have positive events or activities to participate in often drift toward negative options available for them. The drop-in provides a safe space with adult support where the youth are heard, respect.
$15,446 spent24% of program spendingOther programs: next steps: next steps mentors teens (ages 15 to 19) and provides them with skills in career readiness, job discovery, financing their future, and entry into a post-secondary institution. Teens learn how to build a resume, budget their savings, receive a credential and possibly become employed. Workshop topics include stress & time management study skills goal setting resume building interviewing skills financial literacy currently, next steps partners with area employers to provide youth access to permanent jobs. Current partners include ssm health, shoe carnival, and hy-c. The ferguson community service program (fcsp) is a partnership of the Ferguson Youth Initiative (fyi), adolescent resource center (arc), a program of queen of peace center, provident counseling, and the city of ferguson. Fcsp works cooperatively with the ferguson municipal court to provide young people opportunities to perform mentor-guided service work in lieu of incarceration or fines for misdemeanors; to receive, through its partners, any psychological, substance use, including prevention related, and/or family counseling, accompanied by referral supports as deemed appropriate; and to…
$19,883 spent31% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $63,572.
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 $29k to $8k (−73%).
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.
92% of FERGUSON YOUTH INITIATIVE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Winnie Thompson
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $600 → $4k.
3 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 48% 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 FERGUSON YOUTH INITIATIVE’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
FERGUSON YOUTH INITIATIVE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 29% 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
74% 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 FERGUSON YOUTH INITIATIVE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 81% · 2021 48% · 2022 63% · 2023 42% — 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
50% of FERGUSON YOUTH INITIATIVE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 40% 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
81% of FERGUSON YOUTH INITIATIVE's grant income comes from Missouri funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $27k 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
FERGUSON YOUTH INITIATIVE has grown faster than half of the 14,851 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,851 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like FERGUSON YOUTH INITIATIVE
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 Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FERGUSON YOUTH INITIATIVE?
- FERGUSON YOUTH INITIATIVE (Missouri) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $56,094 to it, the largest being ST LOUIS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($16,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FERGUSON YOUTH INITIATIVE have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $56,094 in grants to FERGUSON YOUTH INITIATIVE, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FERGUSON YOUTH INITIATIVE?
- ST LOUIS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $16,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FERGUSON YOUTH INITIATIVE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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 10 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