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GONZALES YOUTH CENTER

GONZALES YOUTH CENTER (Texas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $189,750 to it, the largest being RUTH PARR SPARKS FOUNDATION ($152,750). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2021
$101k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$190k
Net assets
$229k
2/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 60%
01What it does

What Gonzales Youth Center does

Mission

After school program for children

As stated on its FY2021 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. To provide a setting where children can congregate in a safe environment. The organization provides activities including field trips, tutoring, and mentoring.

    $80,482 spentof which $70,504 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2021 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $80,482.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($136k) Expenses 100 ($163k) Net assets 100 ($283k)2020 Revenue 44 ($61k) Expenses 36 ($58k) Net assets 74 ($208k)2021 Revenue 74 ($101k) Expenses 49 ($80k) Net assets 81 ($229k)
201720202021
Revenue (74)Expenses (49)Net assets (81)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $208k to $229k (+10%).

$283k
$208k
$229k
201720202021
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2020
2021
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 33%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

100% of GONZALES YOUTH CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (83% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 6,387 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.

−$26k
’17
$3k
’20
$20k
’21
20
months of
reserve
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2021: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $37k → $44k.

Funder
'17
'18
'19
'20
'21
total
funders
2
2
2
2
2

From the IRS filings of GONZALES 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

GONZALES YOUTH CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 81% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

81%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 78% · 2018 79% · 2019 79% · 2020 79% · 2021 85% — growing more concentrated.

“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.

Where its funders are

100% of GONZALES YOUTH CENTER's grant income comes from Texas funders.

TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
Texas out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

GONZALES YOUTH CENTER runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 4,397 youth development nonprofits its size.

Operating margin20% · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−7% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,397 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2021

Organizations like GONZALES YOUTH CENTER

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In Texas

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Public support

72%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GONZALES YOUTH CENTER: 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 GONZALES YOUTH CENTER?
GONZALES YOUTH CENTER (Texas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $189,750 to it, the largest being RUTH PARR SPARKS FOUNDATION ($152,750). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does GONZALES YOUTH CENTER have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $189,750 in grants to GONZALES YOUTH CENTER, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of GONZALES YOUTH CENTER?
RUTH PARR SPARKS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $152,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like GONZALES YOUTH CENTER find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 FY2021 (financials across 2017–2021), and the filings of 2 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