California · Nonprofit
Helpline Youth Counseling Inc
Helpline Youth Counseling Inc (California) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,253,560 to it, the largest being PATH ($2,809,790). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $17M
- Funders on record
- 36
- Grants received
- $9.3M
- Net assets
- $2.8M
What Helpline Youth Counseling Inc does
Mission
The mission of Helpline Youth Counseling (HYC) is to help build individual, family, and community health, well-being, prosperity, and equity. HYC serves clients and community members with trauma-informed, strength-based, person-centered prevention, early intervention, education, and treatment services.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Behavioral Health Services Program:HYC provides evidence-based, trauma-informed behavioral health services for individuals including children adolescents and adults, families, and groups at our four agency offices, on school campuses, at community locations, and in client homes. HYC's "Starting Point" substance use disorder outpatient treatment program provides substance use counseling to youth ages 12-17 and adults. Additionally, HYC partners with managed care plans to provide enhanced care management and community support services to high frequency users of managed care health and behavioral health care systems. In FY 2024-25, HYC provided 2365 children, youth and adults with comprehensive behavioral health care early intervention and treatment services.
$5,572,801 spent36% of program spendingHomeless and Housing Support Services Program:HYCs Homeless and Housing Support Services programs deliver coordinated housing and service interventions for homeless individuals and families living on the street in Los Angeles County to achieve permanent housing stability. HYC offers unhoused individuals and families supportive services including case management, financial education, housing navigation, housing placement, time-limited move-in and rental assistance, transportation, and resource information. Additionally, HYC offers eviction prevention services on a limited basis. In FY 2024-25, HYC provided 653 program participants with Homeless and Housing Support services.
$4,012,946 spent26% of program spendingYouth Services Program: HYCs Youth Services programs provide substance use prevention and education, youth leadership and advocacy services, and diversion case management services. HYC's Community Collaboration Program brings together various community sectors that develop tools and resources to educate and empower youth and parents from our community. In its Youth Services programs, HYC offers at-promise youth and their family members individual and group counseling case management, prevention and early intervention services, parent education, life skills, restorative justice practices, leadership development, and family support.See Schedule O for more detail.
$3,073,704 spent20% of program spendingFamily Services Program: HYCS Family Services programs provide essential assessment, counseling, education, individualized case management, and linkage to comprehensive community resources that aim to improve family functioning, strengthen the family system, reduce child abuse and neglect, increase child safety, prevent domestic/intimate partner/family violence, and build protective factors within families. Services provided include individual and group counseling, intensive home-based interventions, parent education, and life skills classes. In FY 2024-25, HYCs Family Services programs provided 1,003 children, youth and adults with education, counseling, case management, and support.
$2,709,069 spent$276,000 earned by the program17% of program spendingEMS Corps Job Training Program:HYC provides EMS Corps, an Emergency Medical Technician training program, for young adults 18 to 26 from underrepresented backgrounds, including foster care, juvenile justice, behavioral health, and economic hardship, for careers in emergency medical services. In partnership with Public Works Alliance, which has led the program for over a decade, EMS Corps offers technical EMT instruction and training, professional development, life skills, career pathways, and wraparound support including case management, clinical support, and a monthly stipend. Our initial class launched in April 2025 with 20 students.
$194,706 spent1% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $15,563,226.
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 $3.4M to $5.2M (+55%).
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: 2021 3% · 2022 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
6% of Helpline Youth Counseling Inc’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (95% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Board chair
Deepak Nanda
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 18 funders, grant income rose $492k → $899k.
4 of 36 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 27% 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 Helpline Youth Counseling Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 36 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
Helpline Youth Counseling Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 30% of grant income and the top three 59%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
79% 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 Helpline Youth Counseling Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 73% · 2018 45% · 2019 47% · 2020 38% · 2021 45% · 2022 34% · 2023 24% — 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
60% of Helpline Youth Counseling Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
90% of Helpline Youth Counseling Inc's grant income comes from California 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 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
Helpline Youth Counseling Inc has grown faster than three-quarters of the 152 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 152 crime & legal nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like Helpline Youth Counseling 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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
94% 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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Helpline Youth Counseling Inc: 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 Helpline Youth Counseling Inc?
- Helpline Youth Counseling Inc (California) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,253,560 to it, the largest being PATH ($2,809,790). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Helpline Youth Counseling Inc have?
- IRS filings report 36 organizations giving $9,253,560 in grants to Helpline Youth Counseling Inc, 24 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Helpline Youth Counseling Inc?
- PATH is the largest funder on record, with $2,809,790 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Helpline Youth Counseling Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 36 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