Colorado · Nonprofit
La Plata Youth Services
La Plata Youth Services (Colorado) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,502,249 to it, the largest being THE COLORADO HEALTH FOUNDATION ($692,530). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.7M
- Funders on record
- 20
- Grants received
- $2.5M
- Net assets
- $1.2M
What La Plata Youth Services does
Mission
La Plata Youth Services, Inc. supports and advocates for youth facing challenges in school, home and court.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
La Plata County collaborative management program (LPC CMP): LPYS is the backbone agency for a collaboration among youth-serving agencies that supports youth with complex needs in our community. The La Plata County CMP connects students, families, schools and other stakeholders through an Integrated Services and Support Team (ISST). The ISST functions as an integrated service planning model to bring resources and youth agencies together to better serve youth and their families. The Radical Possibilities Mentoring program and Communities-In Schools Partnership Program are prevention programs of the CMP.
$470,077 spent$131,559 earned by the program45% of program spendingLPYS juvenile diversion program: the LPYS youth diversion program provides an alternative, voluntary option for youth at-risk of entering the juvenile justice system. Our process is youth-centered and restorative in nature, providing opportunities for the youth to repair harm and build connection. Diversion services focus on increasing protective factors, resiliency, and overall well-being.
$262,987 spent$187,956 earned by the program25% of program spendingCommunities-In-School Partnership (CISP) program: the Communities-In-Schools Partnership provides school-based mental and behavioral health services to students who face barriers to accessing care through individual and group sessions. Our goal is to improve overall youth wellbeing and resilience. This is done through collaboration with local agencies and community partners who provide therapeutic services to young people in a school setting.
$111,162 spent11% of program spendingThe HUB: The HUB therapeutic program is an innovative educational model founded on a therapeutic approach to learning and development for students, in grades 6-12, with significant emotional, behavioral, or psychological challenges. Piloted in 2020-2021, this strategic partnership between Durango School District 9R, La Plata Youth Services, and the Child Wellness Center, among other community-based agencies, brings together specialized expertise in a central location. The targeted population includes youth who are impacted by adverse childhood experiences or academic barriers connected to mental health.
$109,536 spent10% of program spendingRadical Possibilities (RP) Mentoring Program: The RP Mentoring Program serves youth in grades 6-12 who are facing adverse life conditions that affect their well-being and ability to engage positively in their lives. Through the support of skilled mentors, LPYS helps youth become more empowered and resilient in the face of life's challenges. Youth have the opportunity to engage one-on-one with their mentors as well as participate in group activities leading them to increased self-confidence and a sense of belonging in their community.
$102,067 spent10% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,055,829.
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 2023 to 2024, from $570k to $910k (+60%).
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 83% · 2018 75% · 2019 70% · 2020 35% · 2021 31% · 2022 23% · 2023 34% · 2024 27% · 2025 58%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
72% of La Plata Youth Services’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (93% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Vanessa Giddings
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $91k → $406k.
3 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% 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 La Plata Youth Services’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
La Plata Youth Services has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% 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
48% 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 La Plata Youth Services.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 46% · 2018 49% · 2019 50% · 2020 54% · 2021 56% · 2022 50% · 2023 57% — growing more concentrated.
“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
62% of La Plata Youth Services's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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 La Plata Youth Services's grant income comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $543k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
La Plata Youth Services runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 852 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 852 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like La Plata Youth Services
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 Colorado
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
97%
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 La Plata Youth Services: 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 La Plata Youth Services?
- La Plata Youth Services (Colorado) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,502,249 to it, the largest being THE COLORADO HEALTH FOUNDATION ($692,530). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does La Plata Youth Services have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $2,502,249 in grants to La Plata Youth Services, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of La Plata Youth Services?
- THE COLORADO HEALTH FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $692,530 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like La Plata Youth Services find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 20 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