Georgia · Nonprofit
Lost-N-Found Youth Inc
Lost-N-Found Youth Inc (Georgia) receives grants from 74 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,677,821 to it, the largest being DELTA DENTAL COMMUNITY CARE FOUNDATION ($659,750). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.3M
- Funders on record
- 74
- Grants received
- $2.7M
- Net assets
- $1.7M
What Lost-N-Found Youth Inc does
Mission
Lost-n-found youth is an atlanta, georgia based nonprofit (501c3) that exists to end homelessness for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer (lgbtq) and all sexual minority youth.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Emergency services: the emergency services program is designed to be the first step in the continuum of assistance to prevent homelessness and enable homeless youth as they move towards independence and stable housing. Emergency services provided by lnfy include street outreach, day shelter, emergency beds and rapid rehousing. Emergency housing: lost-n-found youth provides the emergency housing program to meet the immediate housing needs of homeless youths, up to 90 days, or until our case managers locate a stable alternative living arrangement for the client. During the client's time at lost-n-found emergency house, youth have 3 square meals per day, clothing, and the range of services provided through the lnfy youth center. While in the 90-day emergency housing program; youth are required to secure and maintain full time employment, save 60% of their earnings, abstain from drugs and alcohol, meet twice per week with case managers, and comply with all curfews and rules of the house. Outside emergency housing: lgbtq+ youth represent thousands of the youth living on the streets in atlanta. Because of limited space in lnfy's housing program it is often necessary to house youth in…
$652,439 spent45% of program spendingNot described on the e-filed return.
$198,218 spent14% of program spendingThrift store: the corporate offices of lnfy are located at 2585 chantilly drive inside of the lost-n-found thrift (thrift store) store. In addition to corporate offices the thrift store is a donation center and serves as the first point of contact for many volunteers, donors and clients. The thrift store also house several of the services provided to homeless clients by lnfy clothing vouchers: lnfy provides free clothing and shoes to its homeless and at-risk clients. With a voucher from the youth center lnfy clients shop for the apparel of their choice. Apartment packs: when clients are ready to move into stable and independent housing on their own lnfy provides many of the start-up essentials necessary for a new household. Apartment packs include: -pots & pans - dishes -towels -sheets and linens -blankets & comforters -small kitchen appliances -furniture (beds, couches, dining tables and chairs etc.) -shampoos, conditioner, soap, and other essential toiletries -cleaning supplies
$591,583 spent$881,970 earned by the program41% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,442,240.
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 2021 to 2022, from $895k to $1.9M (+112%).
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.
100% of Lost-N-Found Youth Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Board chair
Kevin Ryan
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 29 funders, grant income rose $49k → $388k.
14 of 74 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% 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 Lost-N-Found Youth Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 74 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
Lost-N-Found Youth Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% 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
42% 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 Lost-N-Found Youth Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 36% · 2018 83% · 2019 29% · 2020 18% · 2021 74% · 2022 28% · 2023 26% — 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
32% of Lost-N-Found Youth Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% 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
Lost-N-Found Youth Inc draws 66% of its grant income from funders outside Georgia, across 19 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $844k 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
Lost-N-Found Youth Inc holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 11,274 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,274 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like Lost-N-Found Youth 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 Georgia
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
80%
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 Lost-N-Found Youth 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 Lost-N-Found Youth Inc?
- Lost-N-Found Youth Inc (Georgia) receives grants from 74 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,677,821 to it, the largest being DELTA DENTAL COMMUNITY CARE FOUNDATION ($659,750). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Lost-N-Found Youth Inc have?
- IRS filings report 74 organizations giving $2,677,821 in grants to Lost-N-Found Youth Inc, 35 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Lost-N-Found Youth Inc?
- DELTA DENTAL COMMUNITY CARE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $659,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Lost-N-Found Youth Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 74 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