California · Nonprofit
MOTIVATING INSPIRING SUPPORTING AND SERVING SEXUALLY EXPLOITED YOUTH
MOTIVATING INSPIRING SUPPORTING AND SERVING SEXUALLY EXPLOITED YOUTH (California) receives grants from 56 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,696,398 to it, the largest being IMPACTASSETSINC ($730,000). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.0M
- Funders on record
- 56
- Grants received
- $4.7M
- Net assets
- $2.4M
What Motivating Inspiring Supporting and Serving Sexually Exploited Youth does
Mission
The organization collaborates to bring about systemic and community change to prevent the sexual exploitation of children and youth through raising awareness, education and policy development.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Case management (transformation coaching):these are holistic, trauma-informed transformation coaching services (formerly clinical case management), including wraparound support, systems navigation, safety planning, and referrals that address youths' psychosocial, mental, emotional, physical, and financial health and well-being. The organization supports youths' healing journeys to overcome trauma and challenges associated with commercial sexual exploitation and related violence. The organization provides warm referrals to sexually exploited and vulnerable youth to ensure access to a continuum of care, including housing, healthcare, legal services, and other essential supports.
$910,936 spent$25,000 earned by the program34% of program spendingYouth program (engagement services):includes drop-in center services and youth-centered activities where the organization provides crisis support, basic necessities, and connection to safe, supportive adults. The organization also hosts community events that bring multiple partner agencies into one space for youth and caregivers who are survivors of or vulnerable to commercial sexual exploitation. Youth development activities include leadership and advocacy, the thrive initiative, economic empowerment programming, and other workshops that build life skills, career readiness, and pathways to employment. Mobile misssey conducts street and community-based outreach, and coordinated outings provide transportation and access to services for youth.
$355,497 spent13% of program spendingTraining and prevention:the organization's trainings and workshops provide a comprehensive overview of trafficking, including youth pathways into exploitation, risk and protective factors, prevention strategies, and best practices for supporting trafficked youth. Youth-facing trainings are informed by the lived experiences of the youth the organization serves. All facilitators utilize trauma-informed, healing-centered, and strengths-based approaches. The organization also facilitates school-site youth groups where participants receive support and strengthen skills related to resiliency, healthy relationships, and mutual support.
$127,122 spent5% of program spendingHousing:the organization provides low-barrier housing supports for youth who have experienced or are at high risk of commercial sexual exploitation. When a youth presents with housing needs, a housing or transitional coach works with them to identify the most appropriate option available, which may include emergency hotel vouchers, short-term shelter placements, emergency rental assistance, transitional housing, and housing stabilization services. Housing support is integrated with transformation coaching and focuses on safety, stability, and long-term housing retention.other program:the organization provides one-on-one and group career readiness and employment support to youth who have experienced commercial sexual exploitation. Staff utilize evidence-based and promising practices to strengthen job readiness, including workshops that cultivate self-awareness, self-regulation, and confidence, and that support shifts in consciousness about youths' capacity to change their circumstances, themselves, and their communities.
$1,322,620 spentof which $1,000,000 as grants49% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,716,175.
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 $3.4M to $2.7M (−23%).
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: 2018 62% · 2019 67% · 2020 63% · 2021 61% · 2022 51% · 2023 57% · 2024 76% · 2025 73%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of MOTIVATING INSPIRING SUPPORTING AND SERVING SEXUALLY EXPLOITED YOUTH’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (93% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Jennifer Lyle
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 19 funders, grant income rose $150k → $936k.
16 of 56 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 43% 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 MOTIVATING INSPIRING SUPPORTING AND SERVING SEXUALLY EXPLOITED YOUTH’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 56 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
MOTIVATING INSPIRING SUPPORTING AND SERVING SEXUALLY EXPLOITED YOUTH has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% 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
74% 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 MOTIVATING INSPIRING SUPPORTING AND SERVING SEXUALLY EXPLOITED YOUTH.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 56% · 2018 25% · 2019 41% · 2020 26% · 2021 37% · 2022 30% · 2023 36% — 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
29% of MOTIVATING INSPIRING SUPPORTING AND SERVING SEXUALLY EXPLOITED YOUTH's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 43% 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
MOTIVATING INSPIRING SUPPORTING AND SERVING SEXUALLY EXPLOITED YOUTH draws 78% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 9 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.0M 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
MOTIVATING INSPIRING SUPPORTING AND SERVING SEXUALLY EXPLOITED YOUTH is better cushioned than half of the 793 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 793 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding MOTIVATING INSPIRING SUPPORTING AND SERVING SEXUALLY EXPLOITED YOUTH receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.4M on record.
- Department of Justice$1.4M
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 MOTIVATING INSPIRING SUPPORTING AND SERVING SEXUALLY EXPLOITED 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
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Friends of Misssey · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MOTIVATING INSPIRING SUPPORTING AND SERVING SEXUALLY EXPLOITED YOUTH: 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 MOTIVATING INSPIRING SUPPORTING AND SERVING SEXUALLY EXPLOITED YOUTH?
- MOTIVATING INSPIRING SUPPORTING AND SERVING SEXUALLY EXPLOITED YOUTH (California) receives grants from 56 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,696,398 to it, the largest being IMPACTASSETSINC ($730,000). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MOTIVATING INSPIRING SUPPORTING AND SERVING SEXUALLY EXPLOITED YOUTH have?
- IRS filings report 56 organizations giving $4,696,398 in grants to MOTIVATING INSPIRING SUPPORTING AND SERVING SEXUALLY EXPLOITED YOUTH, 24 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MOTIVATING INSPIRING SUPPORTING AND SERVING SEXUALLY EXPLOITED YOUTH?
- IMPACTASSETSINC is the largest funder on record, with $730,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MOTIVATING INSPIRING SUPPORTING AND SERVING SEXUALLY EXPLOITED 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.
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 56 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