New Jersey · Nonprofit
SECOND STREET YOUTH CENTER INC
SECOND STREET YOUTH CENTER INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $547,839 to it, the largest being PLAINFIELD FOUNDATION ($117,200). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $4.6M
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $548k
- Net assets
- $881k
What Second Street Youth Center Inc does
Mission
The mission of second street youth center, inc. (ssyc) is to provide education, recreation, athletic and social activities for children, parents, caretakers, guardians and community residents at large. We provide individual social and advisory services for low-income children, families, and community residents. We develop children's competency, self-esteem, and self-reliance through opportunities to make choices, experiment, create, imagine, and inquire. Ssyc nutures the whole student and their family, providing the tools not only fo children to succeed in the classroom, but for the entire family to succeed emotionally and socially to meet the demands of today's society. Through our four programs, preschool, afterschool (including steam enrichment) full steam ahead summer camp, and community outreach services, ssyc utilizes a holistic approach to provide a continuum of programming that positively impacts access to preschool, nutrition, physical and emotional health, environmental facto
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Launched in 2022, the community and family navigator program provides a higher level of care for families in the community, including case management as well as social-emotional learning support to students. The community and family navigator program was designed to conduct education and technical assistance for families of ssyc and community members in plainfield. Through the original outreach department and in the aftermath of covid-19 lockdowns, ssyc recognized that our families and others in the community required additional support to access the services and resources that help to combat the endemic poverty that plagues the community. Our focus is to eliminate barriers of access to much-needed resources and services in our community. This includes eliminating barriers to healthcare, health insurance, and other community resources. Our team of family navigators resolves issues of language, literacy, and social economic stressors that plague members of our community.
Pre-school - ssyc operates a comprehensive early childhood education program for 210 children daily through our collaborative partnership with the plainfield public schools. We are using the state-approved curriculum, connect 4 learning, which is a stem-based curriculum founded by the national science foundation. As we respond to the developmental needs needs of children, we understand the need to address the social-emotional needs of our children entering the educational system for the first time. Therefore, this curriculum and our academic approach embed social-emotional learning throughout the day. We are also data-driven, therefore, children are assessed to ensure that they are making satisfactory progress towards mastery of the state of nj preschool standards and are being properly prepared for kindergarten. After-school program: ssyc operates an academic after-school enrichment program. Daily we transport 60 children from elementary schools in plainfield. They are provided a healthy snack, homework assistance, and stem-related education, 5 days per week. Our program includes two licensed teachers, who also provide individual tutoring for children who are identified as…
Full steam ahead summer enrichment: ssyc provides an 8-week summer enrichment program for 100 children annually. Through our partnership with professional artists, the children get to select from a series of performance-based arts, such as drumming, tap dance, african dance, ocal and videography. They receive the arts twice per week. They also participate in technology programming, inclusive of robotics, computer skills and coding. Finally, they have five full days of stem-related classes, inclusive of conducting and understanding experiments and the scientific model. They have summer trips that align with their stem subjects. Their summer culminated with a showcase, where they get to display all they learned to their families and various community stakeholders.
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,920,140.
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 $1.0M to $7.3M (+630%).
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 95% · 2018 93% · 2019 2% · 2020 18% · 2022 10% · 2023 6% · 2024 19%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
23% of SECOND STREET YOUTH CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (81% 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
Leah Dade
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $6k → $120k.
3 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 27% 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 SECOND STREET YOUTH CENTER 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
SECOND STREET YOUTH CENTER INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% 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
43% 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 SECOND STREET YOUTH CENTER INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 87% · 2018 43% · 2019 40% · 2020 72% · 2021 43% · 2022 24% · 2023 57% — 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
25% of SECOND STREET YOUTH CENTER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% 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
SECOND STREET YOUTH CENTER INC draws 51% of its grant income from funders outside New Jersey, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $145k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
SECOND STREET YOUTH CENTER INC's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 7 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,274 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
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In New Jersey
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SECOND STREET YOUTH CENTER INC?
- SECOND STREET YOUTH CENTER INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $547,839 to it, the largest being PLAINFIELD FOUNDATION ($117,200). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SECOND STREET YOUTH CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $547,839 in grants to SECOND STREET YOUTH CENTER INC, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SECOND STREET YOUTH CENTER INC?
- PLAINFIELD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $117,200 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SECOND STREET YOUTH CENTER INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. 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 17 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