California · Nonprofit
INDIVIDUALS NOW INC DBA SOCIAL ADVOCATES FOR YOUTH
INDIVIDUALS NOW INC DBA SOCIAL ADVOCATES FOR YOUTH (California) receives grants from 43 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,092,042 to it, the largest being SONOMA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($1,046,750). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $-237022
- Funders on record
- 43
- Grants received
- $3.1M
- Net assets
- $6.5M
What Individuals Now Inc Dba Social Advocates for Youth does
Mission
Social advocates for youth were always there to serve the most vulnerable children, youth, and their families so they could realize their fullest potential to live their best lives. The organization filed a chapter 7 bankruptcy petition on february 27, 2024.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Housing continuum and crisis services:the say (I.e., social advocates for youth) housing continuum provided an innovative and viable solution to solving the critical issue of youth homelessness in sonoma county (ages 12-15). Say's housing continuum supported homeless youth with wraparound services designed to empower them on the pathway to becoming healthy, responsible, and independent adults. The say housing continuum included street outreach services shelter services, case managment, and housing services. Shelter services included a basic center for runaway and homeless youth (ages 12-17, or 18 if still in high school), a shelter for transitional age youth (ages 18-24), and a winter shelter during the coldest nights). Housing services included supported housing, out of area travel expense & expense reimbursement policy, direct client assistance policy including gift cards and a food purchasing policy.
$5,152,730 spent100% of program spendingCounseling:the counseling clinic served children, youth, families and young adults (ages 0-20) who have medi-cal insurance. Say provided counseling services to transitional age youth (aged 18-25) who requested services and lived at the say dream center and tamayo village housing services. Say provided counseling under contract with sonoma county probation, with family, youth & children's services, and others. Say's services were broadly available to english and spanish speaking persons experiencing severe emotional problems or having substantial difficulties at school, at home, or in the community. Say provided mental health services on 13 secondary school campuses. Say offered grief services at libraries in the county.
Career services:say's career services programs provided teens and young adults (ages 14-24) with opportunities for employment and education development. Say offered year-round case management, direct pathways to jobs, and support for career development and exploration. Job placement assistance, including resume building and mock interview workshops were provided. Also provided was wraparound case management to santa rosa youth who needed diversion.
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,152,730.
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 2024 to 2025, from $11M to $8.2M (−28%).
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: 2017 1% · 2020 17% · 2021 66% · 2022 54% · 2024 61%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
0% of INDIVIDUALS NOW INC DBA SOCIAL ADVOCATES FOR YOUTH’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 13 funders to 18 funders, grant income fell $576k → $324k.
14 of 43 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 53% 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 INDIVIDUALS NOW INC DBA SOCIAL ADVOCATES FOR YOUTH’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 43 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
INDIVIDUALS NOW INC DBA SOCIAL ADVOCATES FOR YOUTH has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 34% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
75% 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 INDIVIDUALS NOW INC DBA SOCIAL ADVOCATES FOR YOUTH.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 37% · 2018 35% · 2019 69% · 2020 50% · 2021 17% · 2022 20% · 2023 23% — 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
41% of INDIVIDUALS NOW INC DBA SOCIAL ADVOCATES FOR YOUTH's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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
53% of INDIVIDUALS NOW INC DBA SOCIAL ADVOCATES FOR YOUTH'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 $1.5M that is directly attributable, 77% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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
INDIVIDUALS NOW INC DBA SOCIAL ADVOCATES FOR YOUTH holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 9,787 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,787 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like INDIVIDUALS NOW INC DBA SOCIAL ADVOCATES FOR YOUTH
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
43% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds INDIVIDUALS NOW INC DBA SOCIAL ADVOCATES FOR YOUTH?
- INDIVIDUALS NOW INC DBA SOCIAL ADVOCATES FOR YOUTH (California) receives grants from 43 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,092,042 to it, the largest being SONOMA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($1,046,750). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does INDIVIDUALS NOW INC DBA SOCIAL ADVOCATES FOR YOUTH have?
- IRS filings report 43 organizations giving $3,092,042 in grants to INDIVIDUALS NOW INC DBA SOCIAL ADVOCATES FOR YOUTH, 23 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of INDIVIDUALS NOW INC DBA SOCIAL ADVOCATES FOR YOUTH?
- SONOMA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,046,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like INDIVIDUALS NOW INC DBA SOCIAL ADVOCATES FOR YOUTH 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 43 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