Colorado · Nonprofit
FRIENDS OF LONGMONT YOUTH CENTER
FRIENDS OF LONGMONT YOUTH CENTER (Colorado) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $195,990 to it, the largest being MILE HIGH UNITED WAY INC ($100,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2020
- $143k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $196k
- Net assets
- $86k
What Friends of Longmont Youth Center does
Mission
The mission of the friends of longmont youth is to raise donations to be used to foster interest and support in the activities and programs of the longmont youth center. Funds provided by the friends of longmont youth to the longmont youth center directly enhances the financial, physical, social, and emotional conditions of the area youth, our future leaders.
As stated on its FY2020 Form 990-EZ.
Program
First accomplishment the longmont youth center, which is located at 1050 lashley street in longmont colorado. The center is operated by the city of longmont's children and youth resource services division, and provides bilingual (english/spanish) services, at no cost, to help the city of longmont's children, youth, and families reach their greatest potential. Services offered include; counseling services (individual, family, and group) and mental health support, community problem solving, early childhood education, family engagement, and youth development programs, and youth and family meals programs. Each year programs are evaluated and modified, for interest, need, and success. Friends of longmont youth supplements current shortfalls that exist in the longmont youth center programs. The city of longmont provides some budgeted funding to the longmont youth center, however it is not adequate to support all the longmont youth center programs. Friends of longmont youth helps bridge the gap especially since the city of longmont's charter prohibits the youth services division from receiving donations above a certain threshold directly from private citizens and businesses. Funding…
The first program described on its most recent Form 990-EZ.
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 at each year end, in dollars.
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.
100% of FRIENDS OF LONGMONT YOUTH CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $54k → $298.
3 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 FRIENDS OF LONGMONT YOUTH CENTER’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
FRIENDS OF LONGMONT YOUTH CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
98% 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 FRIENDS OF LONGMONT YOUTH CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 94% · 2020 54% · 2021 79% · 2022 98% · 2023 92% — 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
33% of FRIENDS OF LONGMONT YOUTH CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 38% 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
69% of FRIENDS OF LONGMONT YOUTH CENTER's grant income comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $20k 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
FRIENDS OF LONGMONT YOUTH CENTER runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 15,353 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 15,353 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2020
Organizations like FRIENDS OF LONGMONT YOUTH CENTER
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 Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FRIENDS OF LONGMONT YOUTH CENTER?
- FRIENDS OF LONGMONT YOUTH CENTER (Colorado) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $195,990 to it, the largest being MILE HIGH UNITED WAY INC ($100,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FRIENDS OF LONGMONT YOUTH CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $195,990 in grants to FRIENDS OF LONGMONT YOUTH CENTER, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF LONGMONT YOUTH CENTER?
- MILE HIGH UNITED WAY INC is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS OF LONGMONT YOUTH CENTER find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 FY2020 (financials across 2017–2020), and the filings of 8 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