New York · Nonprofit
FRESH YOUTH INITIATIVES INC
FRESH YOUTH INITIATIVES INC (New York) receives grants from 63 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,563,532 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,584,600). 46 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.5M
- Funders on record
- 63
- Grants received
- $6.6M
- Net assets
- $3.8M
What Fresh Youth Initiatives Inc does
Mission
The mission of fresh youth initiatives (fyi) is to empower youth who have the fewest resources to achieve their greatest potential. Fyi's long-term goal is to assist low-income, immigrant, and first-generation childeren to build secure futures, healthy lives, and strong academic achievement.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Elementary programs at ps128: fyi operated an afterschool program for 90 kindergarten through 5th grade students at p.s. 128 audubon school and a summer camp for 265 k-5th grade students held at ps8 the luis belliard school. Programs provided children with a variety of education, arts, recreation, and social-emotional activities with an emphasis on developing strong literacy skills. Overall academic goals are to help all children read and perform math at grade level or higher.
$1,402,785 spent48% of program spendingComprehensive full day high school services: fyi's team of mental health and social work professionals offered social services, counseling, and crisis intervention to the entire student body of 675 students at gregorio luperon high school, the majority of whom were new immigrants. The extended team additionally provided extensive youth development programs including advisory and guidance; academic instruction; high impact tutoring; regents prep; steam education; college access; fine and performing art; sports and recreation.
$1,006,845 spent34% of program spendingMiddle school program cohort: fyi operated afterschool and summer camp programs for 120 students in the sixth through eighth grades at fyi's headquarters and at m311 amistad dual language. Programs provided intensive developmental and academic supports, advisory and counseling, preparation for high school, stem learning, sports, the arts, and recreation.
$455,226 spent16% of program spendingSocial services program: fyi's team of family advocates supported 700 family members of youth engaged in our programs, helping them to access benefits and resources, and distributing 90,000 pounds of food through our bi-weekly food pantry.
$54,108 spent2% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,918,964.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 $5.2M to $4.4M (−14%).
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: 2018 66% · 2019 74% · 2020 61% · 2021 61% · 2022 56% · 2023 61% · 2024 67% · 2025 56%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of FRESH YOUTH INITIATIVES INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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
Catherine Shugrue Dos Santos
CEO
Board chair
Rebecca Sale
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 35 funders, grant income rose $115k → $1.2M.
11 of 63 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 39% 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 FRESH YOUTH INITIATIVES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 63 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
FRESH YOUTH INITIATIVES INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% 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
47% 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 FRESH YOUTH INITIATIVES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 45% · 2018 62% · 2019 32% · 2020 23% · 2021 27% · 2022 23% · 2023 22% — 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
57% of FRESH YOUTH INITIATIVES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 73% 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 FRESH YOUTH INITIATIVES INC'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. $2.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
FRESH YOUTH INITIATIVES INC's funding base is broadening — from 6 funders to 35 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like FRESH YOUTH INITIATIVES 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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
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 FRESH YOUTH INITIATIVES INC?
- FRESH YOUTH INITIATIVES INC (New York) receives grants from 63 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,563,532 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,584,600). 46 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FRESH YOUTH INITIATIVES INC have?
- IRS filings report 63 organizations giving $6,563,532 in grants to FRESH YOUTH INITIATIVES INC, 46 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRESH YOUTH INITIATIVES INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,584,600 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRESH YOUTH INITIATIVES INC 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 63 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