Massachusetts · Nonprofit
FOUNDATION FOR BOSTON CENTERS FOR YOUTH & FAMILIES INC
FOUNDATION FOR BOSTON CENTERS FOR YOUTH & FAMILIES INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,184,394 to it, the largest being Boston Foundation Inc ($1,220,351). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2022
- $1.6M
- Funders on record
- 23
- Grants received
- $3.2M
- Net assets
- $1.5M
What Foundation for Boston Centers for Youth & Families Inc does
Mission
The mission of the foundation is to support boston center for youth and families in its work to enhance the quality of life for boston residents by partnering with community center councils, agencies, and businesses to support the children, youth, individuals and families through a wide range of comprehensive programs and services according to neighborhood needs.
As stated on its FY2022 Form 990.
Programs
Community and civic engagement - programs for various youth leadership development opportunities to community service projects for both youth and adults.
$272,220 spent33% of program spendingYouth employment - bcyf employs over 400 teens during the summer months. These opportunities vary slightly from summer to summer, but range from apprenticeships in bcyf computer labs, positions with bcyf recreation division, lifeguarding at bcyf pools, junior councilors at bcyf summer camps and many other meaningful opportunities. Each bcyf employment opportunity is designed to help teens develop their own unique skills and compentencies, while teaching important career readiness skills in a supportive environment.
$239,023 spentof which $4,955 as grants29% of program spendingSports, recreation and health programs - bcyf's recreation division offers a variety of innovative recreational activities, sports, and trainings year-round to address the physical fitness, health, and social enrichment needs of all boston residents. The recreation division provides programming for all ages with a primary focus on providing a broad range of activities for all youth ages 6-18 in safe and secure settings. Bcyf recreational activities are available city-wide, ensuring easy access for all. The foundation fosters strong partnerships with local colleges and universities, professional sports teams, the business community, and other agencies and departments to bring in support and expertise. A plethora of elder services, health screenings, and other programs defined by neighborhood needs are also available.
$152,527 spent$2,755 earned by the program18% of program spendingArts programs - bcyf's art programs are designed to develop participants' feelings of self-worth, and hopefulness as measured by creative self-expression, accomplishment and peer connections. Bcyf offers art related programs for all ages at various bcyf community centers in four areas including visual and performing arts, literary arts, digital and media arts, and design. The majority of bcyf arts programming culminates in a performance or exhibit by program participants.education - bcyf's educational programs empower residents to become proficient in basic educational disciplines, apply learning to everyday situations, and to embrace technology to improve employability. Bcyf offers a neighborhood-based network of adult education services that are offered at multiple bcyf community centers around the city in two class types: english for speakers of other languages (esol) and ged preparation. Other programs offered including various computer classes for all ages, school-aged tutoring, adult and child cooking courses, career exploration programs, and many more.
$163,023 spent$55,260 earned by the program20% of program spendingCivic & community engagement - bcyf's civic and commumity programs empower participants to support and influence their community center and neighborhood, sustain meaningful relationships with others, develop a positive self-image, participate in the democratic process and respect their own and other's cultural identities. Programs offered range from various youth leadership development opportunities to community service projects for both youth and adults.
The 5 programs described on its FY2021 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $826,793.
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.
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 $1.1M to $1.6M (+52%).
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 11% · 2018 15% · 2019 17% · 2020 25% · 2021 3% · 2022 61%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 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.
Board chair
Christian Onuoha
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2022 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 7 funders to 6 funders, grant income fell $1.3M → $190k.
2 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% 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 FOUNDATION FOR BOSTON CENTERS FOR YOUTH & FAMILIES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 20 of 23 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
FOUNDATION FOR BOSTON CENTERS FOR YOUTH & FAMILIES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
94% 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 FOUNDATION FOR BOSTON CENTERS FOR YOUTH & FAMILIES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 80% · 2018 43% · 2019 49% · 2020 42% · 2021 49% · 2022 43% · 2023 79% — broadly stable.
“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
59% of FOUNDATION FOR BOSTON CENTERS FOR YOUTH & FAMILIES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% 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
97% of FOUNDATION FOR BOSTON CENTERS FOR YOUTH & FAMILIES INC's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Organizations like FOUNDATION FOR BOSTON CENTERS FOR YOUTH & FAMILIES 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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% 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 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR BOSTON CENTERS FOR YOUTH & FAMILIES INC?
- FOUNDATION FOR BOSTON CENTERS FOR YOUTH & FAMILIES INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,184,394 to it, the largest being Boston Foundation Inc ($1,220,351). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FOUNDATION FOR BOSTON CENTERS FOR YOUTH & FAMILIES INC have?
- IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $3,184,394 in grants to FOUNDATION FOR BOSTON CENTERS FOR YOUTH & FAMILIES INC, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FOUNDATION FOR BOSTON CENTERS FOR YOUTH & FAMILIES INC?
- Boston Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $1,220,351 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FOUNDATION FOR BOSTON CENTERS FOR YOUTH & FAMILIES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 FY2022 (financials across 2017–2022), and the filings of 23 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