California · Nonprofit
Larkin Street Youth Services
Larkin Street Youth Services (California) receives grants from 249 organizations whose IRS filings report $64,013,329 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($8,351,715). 160 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $33M
- Funders on record
- 249
- Grants received
- $64M
- Net assets
- $13M
What Larkin Street Youth Services does
Mission
The mission of Larkin Street Youth Services is to create a continuum of services that inspires youth to move beyond the street. We will nurture potential, promote dignity, and support bold steps by all.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Housing services: Last fiscal year, Larkin Street served more than 1,700 homeless and runaway youth, ages 12-24, in San Francisco and the East bay through our direct services. Larkin Street's housing services help youth move from crisis to stability. As the bay area's largest nonprofit housing provider exclusively serving youth experiencing homelessness, Larkin Street offers well over 445 beds of transitional, education and employment services: After we have helped youth resolve supportive, and subsidized housing for two years or more. More than just safe places to sleep, housing programs are integrated with education, employment, and wellness supports to help youth achieve independence. Consistently, three out of four youth who complete our long-term housing programs exit homelessness. Larkin street is also the lead managing partner and fiscal agent for Rising Up (www.risingupsf.org), a public and private citywide partnership with the San Francisco Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing (HSHh) and five other nonprofit organizations. A combination of public and private funds totaling $50M have been raised over the past four years to support this effort, approximately…
$18,547,456 spent64% of program spendingEducation and Employment Services: After we have helped youth resolve immediate crises, our goal is to help them achieve self-sufficiency. Through our Larkin Street Academy, we provide comprehensive education and employment services that prepare young people to pursue post-secondary education and obtain career-track, living-wage employment. Last fiscal year, Larkin Street served more than 450 youth through GED tutoring, college success services, and employment programs ranging from basic job-readiness classes to semester-long learning centers that provide training in specific career tracks.
$4,803,815 spentof which $19,382 as grants17% of program spendingEngagement and Health and Wellness Services: Our engagement services, which include street outreach, two drop-in centers, and two emergency shelters, are the first step in ensuring that youth are safe and that their basic needs are met. Larkin Street also supports youth in making long-term investments in their physical and emotional well-being through our health and wellness services, and RAPID testing for HIV and Hepatitis C. Larkin Street also provides comprehensive behavioral health services, including clinical mental health services, harm reduction, motivational interviewing, substance use supports, and restorative practices.
$4,536,591 spent16% of program spendingDepartment research and evaluation and public funding.
$1,170,579 spent4% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $29,058,441.
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 2020 to 2021, from $30M to $41M (+35%).
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 62% · 2018 52% · 2019 45% · 2020 57% · 2021 45% · 2022 60% · 2023 60% · 2024 69% · 2025 68%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of Larkin Street Youth Services’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Chief executive
Sherilyn Adams
CEO
Board chair
Marcie Elias
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 69 funders to 101 funders, grant income rose $2.5M → $7.5M.
39 of 249 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 41% 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 Larkin Street Youth Services’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 249 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
Larkin Street Youth Services has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 13% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
60% 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 Larkin Street Youth Services.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 16% · 2018 13% · 2019 46% · 2020 12% · 2021 26% · 2022 31% · 2023 14% — broadly stable.
“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
48% of Larkin Street Youth Services's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
81% of Larkin Street Youth Services's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $26M arriving through sponsors registered in 17 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
Larkin Street Youth Services has grown faster than half of the 2,396 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,396 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding Larkin Street Youth Services receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $15.0M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$8.3M
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$6.7M
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 Larkin Street 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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% 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
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Larkin Street 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 Larkin Street Youth Services?
- Larkin Street Youth Services (California) receives grants from 249 organizations whose IRS filings report $64,013,329 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($8,351,715). 160 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Larkin Street Youth Services have?
- IRS filings report 249 organizations giving $64,013,329 in grants to Larkin Street Youth Services, 160 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Larkin Street Youth Services?
- AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $8,351,715 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Larkin Street Youth Services 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 249 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