Indiana · Nonprofit
Simon Youth Foundation Inc
Simon Youth Foundation Inc (Indiana) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,437,392 to it, the largest being DAVID E SIMON & JACQUELINE S SIMON CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($851,000). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.6M
- Funders on record
- 37
- Grants received
- $2.4M
- Net assets
- $15M
What Simon Youth Foundation Inc does
Mission
Simon youth foundation(syf) is a national 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to helping students graduate and prepare for life after high school. We believe every young person, no matter their personal circumstances, deserves the opportunity to pursue their dreams through education.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Simon youth foundation(syf) is a national 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to helping students graduate and prepare for life after high school. We believe every young person, no matter their personal circumstances, deserves the opportunity to pursue their dreams through education. Syf partners with public school districts to strengthen and sustain alternative education programs that serve students at risk of dropping out. Since 1998 through the network, currently 32 simon youth academies in 12 states syf helps thousands of students reach graduation day each year. Often located in simon mall communities, these programs provide a lifeline for young people facing challenges such as homelessness, bullying, parenthood, or the need to work to support their families. Simon youth academies has maintained an average lifetime graduation rate of 91%, helping more than 33,000 students graduate, awarding more than $22.6 million in scholarships, and invested $1.7 million in capacity building.
$1,388,174 spent65% of program spendingThrough direct funding and resources such as in and out of state experiential trips, syf helps school districts keep students engaged, overcome barriers, and graduate. Syf scholarships are awarded to simon youth academy graduates, as well as non-academy students in communities throughout north america that is home to a simon property. The awards primarily serve students who will be the first in their families to attend post-secondary education institutions, including 2-year vocational and technical schools and 4-year colleges. A third-party administrator oversees the scholarship process. To support developlment and best practice sharing, syf hosts the national educator conference for network school district partners and representatives from national organizations that work to improve graduation rates focused alternative education.
$761,214 spentof which $649,705 as grants$3,315 earned by the program35% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,149,388.
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 $15M to $13M (−11%).
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.
82% of Simon Youth Foundation Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% 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
Andrea Neely END 8825
President and CEO
Board chair
Deborah J Simon
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $133k → $344k.
7 of 37 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 40% 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 Simon Youth Foundation Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 37 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
Simon Youth Foundation Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 35% 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
56% 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 Simon Youth Foundation Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 30% · 2018 27% · 2019 59% · 2020 57% · 2021 45% · 2022 39% · 2023 30% — broadly stable.
“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
35% of Simon Youth Foundation Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
74% of Simon Youth Foundation Inc's grant income comes from Indiana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $964k 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
Simon Youth Foundation Inc is better cushioned than half of the 9,615 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,615 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Simon Youth Foundation 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 Indiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
50% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
79%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 51 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Simon Youth Foundation 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 Simon Youth Foundation Inc?
- Simon Youth Foundation Inc (Indiana) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,437,392 to it, the largest being DAVID E SIMON & JACQUELINE S SIMON CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($851,000). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Simon Youth Foundation Inc have?
- IRS filings report 37 organizations giving $2,437,392 in grants to Simon Youth Foundation Inc, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Simon Youth Foundation Inc?
- DAVID E SIMON & JACQUELINE S SIMON CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $851,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Simon Youth Foundation Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 37 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