California · Nonprofit
Homeless Youth Alliance
Homeless Youth Alliance (California) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,194,701 to it, the largest being THE SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ($953,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.9M
- Funders on record
- 35
- Grants received
- $3.2M
- Net assets
- $2.5M
What Homeless Youth Alliance does
Mission
The Organization's mission is to meet youth experiencing homelessness where they are, see them all as individuals with unique experiences and life stories and help them to build healthier lives. The Organization believes reducing harm is possible through the provision of accessible, respectful non-judgmental relationships, services and accurate up-to-date referrals and information. The Organization strives to empower youth experiencing homelessness to protect themselves, educate each other, reduce harm within the community, and when they are ready and have the opportunity to transition off the street.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Homeless Youth Alliance HYA was created by and for the community it works with. HYA believes that the best way to foster success is by adopting a proactive approach, while remaining mindful that those HYA serves have a right to determine the course of their own lives and their own care. Accordingly, HYA strives to hire people who either have come directly from the population it works with or who have shared similar life experiences. For a youth experiencing homelessness to know that the person sitting across from them has experienced and survived similar things to what they are going through, allows HYA to engage from a place of true knowing, lessening the deeply rooted stigma and shame that are so intertwined with homelessness. Homeless Youth Alliance gets to demonstrate that long-term change is possible. After losing the drop-in center, HYA pivoted towards taking our core services - outreach, case management, food access, harm reduction services, medical and mental health care, drug treatment, and groups - to youth experiencing homelessness where they are. It is through consistently providing these services that trusting relationships are formed and change happens.
$1,309,653 spent$5,125 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,309,653.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2019 to 2020, from $947k to $2.3M (+139%).
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: 2019 47% · 2020 54% · 2021 69% · 2022 52% · 2023 71% · 2024 70% · 2025 59%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of Homeless Youth Alliance’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 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
Mary Howe
Executive Director
Board chair
Lisa Moore
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 11 funders, grant income rose $15k → $457k.
13 of 35 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 71% 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 Homeless Youth Alliance’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 35 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
Homeless Youth Alliance has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 30% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
90% 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 Homeless Youth Alliance.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 51% · 2019 87% · 2020 46% · 2021 26% · 2022 38% · 2023 41% — 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
40% of Homeless Youth Alliance's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 46% 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
71% of Homeless Youth Alliance's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $927k that is directly attributable, 56% of it comes from funders outside California, across 7 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.3M 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
Homeless Youth Alliance runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,064 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,064 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Homeless Youth Alliance
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
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
87%
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 Homeless Youth Alliance: 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 Homeless Youth Alliance?
- Homeless Youth Alliance (California) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,194,701 to it, the largest being THE SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ($953,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Homeless Youth Alliance have?
- IRS filings report 35 organizations giving $3,194,701 in grants to Homeless Youth Alliance, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Homeless Youth Alliance?
- THE SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $953,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Homeless Youth Alliance 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 35 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