Washington · Nonprofit
NORTHWEST YOUTH SERVICES
NORTHWEST YOUTH SERVICES (Washington) receives grants from 61 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,869,933 to it, the largest being BUILDING CHANGES ($1,034,580). 39 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $7.6M
- Funders on record
- 61
- Grants received
- $6.9M
- Net assets
- $3.6M
What Northwest Youth Services does
Mission
Northwest Youth Services collaborates with at-risk, runaway, and homeless youth to foster self-reliance. The organization's goal is to keep youth safe, heal family relationships, and reconnect youth to the community. The organization provides emergency shelter and other supportive services to youth and families to achieve these goals.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
See part iii 4c.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
Housing programs - these programs provide housing and supportive services to homeless youth (ages 18-25) including pregnant and parenting youth in whatcom and skagit counties. Service plans are developed with each participant depending on individual strengths and needs. Focus areas include development of independent living skills, employment, vocational and educational support, access to counseling, parenting support, financial literacy, and renter education. Program goals are aimed toward participant independence and self-reliance.
$1,441,963 spentof which $533,415 as grants27% of program spendingThe positive adolescent development (pad) program is an emergency housing program providing housing for minors (ages 13-17). In this program, clients work with a case manager to create a plan for obtaining stable housing. The pad program provides shelter, food, fun activities, and school enrollment services.
$931,760 spentof which $205,537 as grants18% of program spendingThe anchor community intiative outreach program provides targeted outreach and diversion services to youth 12-17 and young adults 18-24. These programs provide flexible financial assistance to divert youth from the homeless system and fund housing solutions. Outreach services reach out to rural areas and address gaps in community assistance systems to facilitate access to shelter and other services. Program services also support youth action board advisory committee work to partner with young people to develop sustainable long term solutions to youth homelessness.
$1,466,715 spentof which $42,334 as grants28% of program spendingThe vocational program supports participants in exploring and identifying strengths and interest, building self-confidence, and developing the skills and relationships necessary to achieve and maintain sustainable employment and become self-sufficient. Currently, the program consists of the following aspects: supporting employment readiness, individual case management, we grow, and summer jobs/youth jobs. Teen court is a collaborative program between the organization and the whatcom county superior courts and is designed to deal with second-time youth offenders. Teen court is based upon a philosophy of restorative justice in which (1) the offender is held accountable, (2) the victim is made whole, and (3) the offender is restored to the community. The ground floor program is a day center providing basic need services to youth ages 13 to 24. This low-barrier space acts as an entry point for the rest of Northwest Youth Services' programs and partner agencies, and provides an indoor community area, laundry units, food and kitchen space, private bathrooms and showers, quiet rooms, and a 'free store' containing clothing and other survival supplies.the queer youth project supports…
$1,403,722 spentof which $321,639 as grants$1,623,021 earned by the program27% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,244,160.
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 2022 to 2023, from $4.2M to $5.3M (+26%).
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 57% · 2018 61% · 2019 63% · 2020 68% · 2021 67% · 2022 67% · 2023 76% · 2024 83%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of NORTHWEST YOUTH SERVICES’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. 3 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 18 funders, grant income rose $523k → $1.1M.
10 of 61 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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 NORTHWEST YOUTH SERVICES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 61 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
NORTHWEST YOUTH SERVICES has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
77% 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 NORTHWEST YOUTH SERVICES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 20% · 2018 27% · 2019 55% · 2020 21% · 2021 14% · 2022 31% · 2023 44% — 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
53% of NORTHWEST YOUTH SERVICES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
83% of NORTHWEST YOUTH SERVICES's grant income comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
NORTHWEST YOUTH SERVICES runs a healthier operating margin than half 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
Government funding NORTHWEST YOUTH SERVICES receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $8.0M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$4.2M
- Department of Health and Human Services$3.7M
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 NORTHWEST YOUTH SERVICES
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 Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% 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 NORTHWEST YOUTH SERVICES: 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 NORTHWEST YOUTH SERVICES?
- NORTHWEST YOUTH SERVICES (Washington) receives grants from 61 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,869,933 to it, the largest being BUILDING CHANGES ($1,034,580). 39 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NORTHWEST YOUTH SERVICES have?
- IRS filings report 61 organizations giving $6,869,933 in grants to NORTHWEST YOUTH SERVICES, 39 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NORTHWEST YOUTH SERVICES?
- BUILDING CHANGES is the largest funder on record, with $1,034,580 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NORTHWEST YOUTH SERVICES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 61 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