Arizona · Nonprofit
Homeless Youth Connection Inc
Homeless Youth Connection Inc (Arizona) receives grants from 77 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,936,151 to it, the largest being The Bob & Renee Parsons Foundation ($850,000). 48 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.4M
- Funders on record
- 77
- Grants received
- $5.9M
- Net assets
- $2.7M
What Homeless Youth Connection Inc does
Mission
Homeless Youth Connection's (HYC) mission is to eliminate barriers to graduation for homeless youth and create lasting solutions for a successful future through community support and increased awareness.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Homeless Youth Connection (HYC) is proud to report several accomplishments related to program goals, including 95% of youth experiencing homelessness who participated in the program, stayed in school, and completed their education. During the 2024-2025 school year, HYC served 705 youth experiencing homelessness. In May 2024, 406 youth were actively participating in the program. Of those youth, 159 were high school seniors. Of those 129 graduated, 27 will enroll in the fall school year, and four youth were undecided.Of the 129 graduating seniors, 92 will enroll in college, eight will enroll in vocational training, and nine will enlist in the military. Of all the graduates, 96 have applied or entered the workforce.This past year, 42 unaccompanied youth participated in HYC's housing program. Twenty-five youths participated in the Hatcher Transitional Living program, 15 youth were in the Host Family, and two resided in the Flagstaff transitional home. Of the 42, 28 were graduating seniors and seven were in their first year of college.
$2,604,387 spentof which $390,049 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,604,387.
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 and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $1.6M to $2.5M (+63%).
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 13% · 2020 14% · 2021 27% · 2022 17% · 2023 48% · 2024 22% · 2025 59%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of Homeless Youth Connection Inc’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. 1 of the last 9 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
Cindy Toraya
Board President
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 27 funders, grant income rose $81k → $1.2M.
11 of 77 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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 Connection Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 77 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 Connection Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
44% 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 Connection Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 32% · 2018 29% · 2019 20% · 2020 15% · 2021 24% · 2022 24% · 2023 17% — 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
51% of Homeless Youth Connection Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
83% of Homeless Youth Connection Inc's grant income comes from Arizona funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $666k arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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 Connection Inc has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,152 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,152 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding Homeless Youth Connection Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.7M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$1.7M
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 Homeless Youth Connection 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 Arizona
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
89%
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 Homeless Youth Connection 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 Homeless Youth Connection Inc?
- Homeless Youth Connection Inc (Arizona) receives grants from 77 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,936,151 to it, the largest being The Bob & Renee Parsons Foundation ($850,000). 48 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Homeless Youth Connection Inc have?
- IRS filings report 77 organizations giving $5,936,151 in grants to Homeless Youth Connection Inc, 48 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Homeless Youth Connection Inc?
- The Bob & Renee Parsons Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $850,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Homeless Youth Connection Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arizona. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 77 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