Iowa · Nonprofit
HELPING SERVICES FOR YOUTH AND FAMILIES INC
HELPING SERVICES FOR YOUTH AND FAMILIES INC (Iowa) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $126,088 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF DUBUQUE AREA TRI-STATES ($47,206). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.8M
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $126k
- Net assets
- $501k
What Helping Services for Youth and Families Inc does
Mission
Helping services for youth & families supports healthier and safer families and communities. The organization has provided programming aimed at supporting this mission throughout northeast iowa since 1973.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Substance abuse prevention services: 1. Prevent substance abuse by providing timely information about substances, their effects on the individual, family, and community.2. Consult with and support community wide efforts to address substance abuse, and youth bullying, and harassment.3. Coordinate and support adult to youth mentoring relationships.4. Reduce high-risk behavior among youth and increase individual, family, and community assets that support and promote positive youth development.5. Support and encourage positive learning environments in schools through positive life skill development among youth in school.
$691,579 spent50% of program spendingDomestic abuse advocacy services: 1. Provide emergency support for victims of domestic violence including safe housing, advocacy with law enforcement, medical, legal and social service personnel.2. Provide transitional housing for families relocating following an emergency intervention resulting from domestic abuse.3. Provide financial and material support including first month rent and utility payments, gas cards, food, and clothing to victims of domestic violence.4. Educate the public and professional service personnel on the impact of violence and appropriate helpful responses.5. Educate youth on teen dating violence and healthy relationships.
$415,018 spent30% of program spendingFamily education and support services:1. Reduce founded child abuse through community wide education and promotion of healthy family relationships.2. Support young parents in parenting for health, safety, and appropriate developmental expectations of children, appropriate discipline, and guidance of children.3. Support young parents through providing opportunities to socialize and support one another.
$284,158 spent20% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,390,755.
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 2024 to 2025, from $679k to $546k (−20%).
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 85% · 2019 79% · 2020 84% · 2021 80% · 2022 81% · 2023 82% · 2024 82% · 2025 79%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of HELPING SERVICES FOR YOUTH AND FAMILIES 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. 4 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
Eggland Carson
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $500 → $27k.
4 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 26% 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 HELPING SERVICES FOR YOUTH AND FAMILIES INC’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
HELPING SERVICES FOR YOUTH AND FAMILIES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
93% 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 HELPING SERVICES FOR YOUTH AND FAMILIES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 86% · 2020 80% · 2021 89% · 2022 41% · 2023 40% — 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 HELPING SERVICES FOR YOUTH AND FAMILIES 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
98% of HELPING SERVICES FOR YOUTH AND FAMILIES INC's grant income comes from Iowa funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $33k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
HELPING SERVICES FOR YOUTH AND FAMILIES INC's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 5 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding HELPING SERVICES FOR YOUTH AND FAMILIES INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.8M on record.
- Department of Justice$2.8M
- Department of Health and Human Services$1.0M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like HELPING SERVICES FOR YOUTH AND 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 Iowa
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
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 HELPING SERVICES FOR YOUTH AND FAMILIES INC?
- HELPING SERVICES FOR YOUTH AND FAMILIES INC (Iowa) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $126,088 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF DUBUQUE AREA TRI-STATES ($47,206). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HELPING SERVICES FOR YOUTH AND FAMILIES INC have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $126,088 in grants to HELPING SERVICES FOR YOUTH AND FAMILIES INC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HELPING SERVICES FOR YOUTH AND FAMILIES INC?
- UNITED WAY OF DUBUQUE AREA TRI-STATES is the largest funder on record, with $47,206 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HELPING SERVICES FOR YOUTH AND FAMILIES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Iowa. 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 11 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