California · Nonprofit
NATIONAL FOSTER YOUTH INSTITUTE
NATIONAL FOSTER YOUTH INSTITUTE (California) receives grants from 50 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,118,209 to it, the largest being THE BARRY AND WENDY MEYER FOUNDATION ($1,816,612). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.7M
- Funders on record
- 50
- Grants received
- $7.1M
- Net assets
- $1.7M
What National Foster Youth Institute does
Mission
Nfyi empowers current and former foster youth, their families, and communities to use their lived experiences to bring about important policy improvements in the child welfare system nationwide.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Nfyi's programs recruit and train current/former foster youth so that 1st-hand experience can be included in child welfare policy design. In fy25, 40 young adults from across the country participated in a 10-month training, culminating in a week spent in dc, where they shadowed members of congress and shared recommendations for federal child welfare policy. In los angeles, 30 young adults engaged 45 other foster youth as well as local officials around issues like mental health and housing. Both of our interns helped develop a 3-year policy agenda. Across programs, young adults experienced leadership development, mentorship, and community.
$1,156,248 spentof which $94,099 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,156,248.
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 $1.2M to $2.8M (+145%).
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 4% · 2018 4% · 2019 0% · 2020 3% · 2021 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of NATIONAL FOSTER YOUTH INSTITUTE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (82% 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
Rebecca Louve Yao
Executive director
Board chair
Wendy Smith Meyer
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 13 funders, grant income fell $1.1M → $948k.
11 of 50 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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 NATIONAL FOSTER YOUTH INSTITUTE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 50 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
NATIONAL FOSTER YOUTH INSTITUTE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 37% · 2018 50% · 2019 36% · 2020 28% · 2021 28% · 2022 27% · 2023 80% — 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
29% of NATIONAL FOSTER YOUTH INSTITUTE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% 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
68% of NATIONAL FOSTER YOUTH INSTITUTE's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $759k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
NATIONAL FOSTER YOUTH INSTITUTE is better cushioned than half of the 1,064 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,064 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like NATIONAL FOSTER YOUTH INSTITUTE
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
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
77%
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 NATIONAL FOSTER YOUTH INSTITUTE: 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 NATIONAL FOSTER YOUTH INSTITUTE?
- NATIONAL FOSTER YOUTH INSTITUTE (California) receives grants from 50 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,118,209 to it, the largest being THE BARRY AND WENDY MEYER FOUNDATION ($1,816,612). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NATIONAL FOSTER YOUTH INSTITUTE have?
- IRS filings report 50 organizations giving $7,118,209 in grants to NATIONAL FOSTER YOUTH INSTITUTE, 24 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NATIONAL FOSTER YOUTH INSTITUTE?
- THE BARRY AND WENDY MEYER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,816,612 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NATIONAL FOSTER YOUTH INSTITUTE 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 50 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