California · Nonprofit
New Directions for Youth Inc
New Directions for Youth Inc (California) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,373,904 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($651,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.4M
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $744k
What New Directions for Youth Inc does
Mission
Social and employment services.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Gang Prevention & Intervention: New Directions for Youth, Inc. ("NDY") provides gang prevention and intervention programs that help to reduce violence within low-income communities. NDY provides prevention programs that include specialized services specifically designed for a targeted group of youth who have displayed several risk factors for gang membership and/or street violence. The youth who are most at risk will receive the support of a specialized team that is composed of a strategy team leader, family facilitator, and family advocate. Every month, the team meets with the family and youth. After six months, youth are reassessed to determine progress.NDY also partners with the Mayor's Office of Gang Reduction, Youth Development (GRYD) and the Los Angeles County Probation Department (LACPD), WorkSource Centers, and other education, community, and faith-based organizations to ensure that youth, who are recently released, have the necessary resources and support to successfully transition back to the community.
$832,781 spent$803,892 earned by the program26% of program spendingCommunity Beautification: NDY is committed to creating a welcoming community for youth and their families. The Community Beautification Program, the first such program in the San Fernando Valley, was founded in 1984 and is funded by Board of Public Works Office of Community Beautification. This is one of the largest and most productive graffiti eradication programs in the area. Utilizing our staff and court-referred workers to remove over 120,000 square feet of graffiti each month, it operates 7 days a week. In addition to graffiti removal, NDY partners with neighborhood councils, business improvement districts, and community partners to have clean streets throughout the San Fernando Valley.
$778,561 spent$795,000 earned by the program24% of program spendingThe Juvenile Re-Entry Program: Provides family case management services to gang-involved youth exiting Probation Camp and to their families.Human Trafficking Program: Provides minor victim of sex and labor trafficking services that will assist them to overcome trauma, attain transition to autonomy, attain economic self-sufficiency and experience growth in their personal health and well-being.Neighborhood Clean-Ups: Staff and volunteers remove dirt and debris from streets, sidewalks, walkways and squares.Summer Camp: Provides supervised youth developments activities, that strive for foster personal growth for children by providing them fun, safe educational and recreational programs, outdoor experience and group activities while out of school and during summer months.Youth Employment Programs: Provide work experience, employment placement and training activities.The (VII) Violence Interruption Initiative program is a partnership between NDY and the Board of State and Community Corrections and provides evidence-based intensive case management, cognitive behavioral therapy, employment and employment training, and mentoring to interrupt the cycle of violence for young people ages…
$1,603,465 spent$1,501,583 earned by the program50% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,214,807.
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 2017 to 2018, from $2.3M to $2.9M (+27%).
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: 2019 5% · 2022 8% · 2023 7% · 2024 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
8% of New Directions for Youth Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (16% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Chief executive
Monica Austin Jackson
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $20k → $80k.
5 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 57% 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 New Directions for Youth 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.
How concentrated its funding is
New Directions for Youth Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 67%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 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 New Directions for Youth Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 72% · 2019 34% · 2020 57% · 2021 52% · 2022 51% · 2023 31% — 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
50% of New Directions for Youth Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
57% of New Directions for Youth Inc's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $588k that is directly attributable, 93% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $786k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
New Directions for Youth Inc has grown faster than half of the 1,551 employment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,551 employment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding New Directions for Youth Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.6M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$1.0M
- Department of Justice$500k
- Department of Education$125k
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 New Directions for 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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% 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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for New Directions for 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 New Directions for Youth Inc?
- New Directions for Youth Inc (California) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,373,904 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($651,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does New Directions for Youth Inc have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $1,373,904 in grants to New Directions for Youth Inc, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of New Directions for Youth Inc?
- CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $651,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like New Directions for Youth Inc 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 18 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