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MESA YOUTH SERVICES FOUNDATION INC

MESA YOUTH SERVICES FOUNDATION INC (Colorado) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LIONS 3602 ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$54k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$10k
Net assets
$770k
0/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 13%
01What it does

What Mesa Youth Services Foundation Inc does

Mission

To raise funds to support mesa youth services, inc's youth programs and allow them to establish additional programs or keep current programs going in which to help the troubled youth of mesa county,

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. To allow mesa youth services, inc to enhance youth programs.

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($60k) Expenses 100 ($69k) Net assets 100 ($732k)2018 Revenue 114 ($68k) Expenses 79 ($54k) Net assets 85 ($624k)2019 Revenue 118 ($71k) Expenses 73 ($50k) Net assets 99 ($727k)2020 Revenue 40 ($24k) Expenses 69 ($47k) Net assets 101 ($740k)2021 Revenue 127 ($76k) Expenses 91 ($63k) Net assets 104 ($764k)2022 Revenue -14 ($-8123) Expenses 105 ($72k) Net assets 84 ($612k)2023 Revenue 55 ($33k) Expenses 7 ($5k) Net assets 92 ($670k)2024 Revenue 90 ($54k) Expenses 8 ($5k) Net assets 105 ($770k)
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Revenue (90)Expenses (8)Net assets (105)Peer revenue range

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 $764k to $612k (−20%).

$732k
$624k
$727k
$740k
$764k
$612k
$670k
$770k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

7% of MESA YOUTH SERVICES FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (99% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 6,261 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$9k
’17
$14k
’18
$21k
’19
−$24k
’20
$13k
’21
−$80k
’22
$28k
’23
$49k
’24
48
months of
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.

'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24
Listed65141615171517
Joined·+1+13+2+3+5+0+3
No longer listed·2404321
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'21
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of MESA YOUTH SERVICES FOUNDATION INC’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.

Where its funders are

100% of MESA YOUTH SERVICES FOUNDATION INC's grant income comes from Colorado funders.

CO

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

MESA YOUTH SERVICES FOUNDATION INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 4,682 youth development nonprofits its size.

Operating margin90% · outside the comparable range
Months of reserve47.5mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−1% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,682 youth development nonprofits under $100k, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

0% of spending goes to programs.

Program 0%Management 100%Fundraising 0%

Governance

14
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MESA YOUTH SERVICES FOUNDATION 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 MESA YOUTH SERVICES FOUNDATION INC?
MESA YOUTH SERVICES FOUNDATION INC (Colorado) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LIONS 3602 ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does MESA YOUTH SERVICES FOUNDATION INC have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $10,000 in grants to MESA YOUTH SERVICES FOUNDATION INC.
Who is the largest funder of MESA YOUTH SERVICES FOUNDATION INC?
INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LIONS 3602 is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MESA YOUTH SERVICES FOUNDATION INC 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 1 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