California · Nonprofit
SAFE PLACE FOR YOUTH INC
SAFE PLACE FOR YOUTH INC (California) receives grants from 128 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,921,864 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($2,933,500). 63 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $12M
- Funders on record
- 128
- Grants received
- $13M
- Net assets
- $4.5M
What Safe Place for Youth Inc does
Mission
Our mission is to prevent and end youth homelessness through supportive services, sustainable housing opportunities, community collaboration, and advocacy.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Each year, safe place for youth (spy) provides vital resources and housing to over 1,000 young people across los angeles county. Spy's mission is to prevent and end youth homelessness through supportive services, sustainable housing opportunities, community collaboration, and advocacy.with support from board members, donors, volunteers, and partner agencies, spy has grown from a 100%volunteer organization to one with 100+ employees and the following core program components:(see schedule o for continuation)1- emergency (30-90 days) and transitional (1-3 years) housing programs as well as permanent housing through time limited subsidy; 2- access center services: day-services where youth can receive meals, showers, clothing, and hygiene items 7 days a week 3- 1:1 case management to support with the housing search and/or prevention of homelessness; 4- education & employment support to aid with job placement, paid work experience opportunities, and post- secondary education or vocational program enrollment;5- health & wellness care, including access to counseling, substance recovery, psychiatry, sexual health, medical care, and dental care; 6- pregnant & parenting support, ensuring the…
$9,221,421 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $9,221,421.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 $4.5M to $5.9M (+33%).
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: 2021 52% · 2022 47% · 2023 49% · 2024 59% · 2025 54%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of SAFE PLACE FOR YOUTH INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 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
Erika Hartman
Chief executive officer
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 49 funders, grant income rose $341k → $2.2M.
21 of 128 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $1k from one payer (the payer's own filing calls it a related party, largest The Halperin Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money SAFE PLACE FOR YOUTH INC raised.
From the IRS filings of SAFE PLACE FOR YOUTH INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 128 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
SAFE PLACE FOR YOUTH INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
69% 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 SAFE PLACE FOR YOUTH INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 53% · 2018 35% · 2019 25% · 2020 21% · 2021 33% · 2022 27% · 2023 39% — 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
36% of SAFE PLACE FOR YOUTH INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 49% 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
88% of SAFE PLACE FOR YOUTH INC's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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
SAFE PLACE FOR YOUTH INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,396 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,396 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding SAFE PLACE FOR YOUTH INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.3M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$2.3M
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 SAFE PLACE 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
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 SAFE PLACE 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 SAFE PLACE FOR YOUTH INC?
- SAFE PLACE FOR YOUTH INC (California) receives grants from 128 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,921,864 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($2,933,500). 63 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SAFE PLACE FOR YOUTH INC have?
- IRS filings report 128 organizations giving $12,921,864 in grants to SAFE PLACE FOR YOUTH INC, 63 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SAFE PLACE FOR YOUTH INC?
- CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,933,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SAFE PLACE 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 FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 128 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