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SMYAL Inc

SMYAL Inc (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 74 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,843,866 to it, the largest being JusticeAid ($500,000). 47 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$5.1M
Funders on record
74
Grants received
$3.8M
Net assets
$2.4M
47/74 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 21%
01What it does

What SMYAL Inc does

Mission

Overview: Based in Washington, D.C., SMYAL supports and empowers LGBTQ+ youth ages 6 through 24. Since 1984, SMYAL has worked to meet the needs of LGBTQ+ youth through affirming programs, housing support, accessible mental health services, leadership training, and community outreach.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Transitional Housing: The youth housing program provides safe and stable shelter, food, case management services, mental health counseling, crisis intervention, and community support for its residents as they transition from homelessness to sustainable independence.

    $2,608,918 spent
    56% of program spending
  2. Health and Wellness: The Clinical Services Department provides affirming and accessible mental health counseling to LGBTQ+ youth through individual therapy, group sessions, and family therapy. The Bilingual Street Outreach Program is designed to fill gaps in services for Spanish-LGBTQ+ youth in DC bybuilding relationships with and connectingthem to affirming resources in the language they speak.

    $1,123,066 spent
    24% of program spending
  3. Community Education: Social support programs are designed to provide youth with a safe space to express themselves and build community. Cultural Competency trainings are provided to individuals and organizations to encourage the acknowledgement and acceptance of differences in appearance, behavior and culture.

    $508,471 spent$4,950 earned by the program
    11% of program spending
  4. Youth Leadership Development: Leadership programs are designed to equip young people with the skills, resources, and support they need to enact change as the leaders of tomorrow and today. Included in this programming is the annual RiseUP! conference.

    $435,682 spentof which $30,000 as grants
    9% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,676,137.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.2M) Expenses 100 ($1.2M) Net assets 100 ($409k)2018 Revenue 132 ($1.5M) Expenses 114 ($1.3M) Net assets 148 ($605k)2019 Revenue 171 ($2.0M) Expenses 142 ($1.7M) Net assets 229 ($935k)2020 Revenue 212 ($2.5M) Expenses 197 ($2.3M) Net assets 266 ($1.1M)2021 Revenue 301 ($3.5M) Expenses 256 ($3.0M) Net assets 387 ($1.6M)2022 Revenue 394 ($4.6M) Expenses 352 ($4.1M) Net assets 498 ($2.0M)2023 Revenue 460 ($5.3M) Expenses 423 ($4.9M) Net assets 593 ($2.4M)2024 Revenue 441 ($5.1M) Expenses 439 ($5.1M) Net assets 587 ($2.4M)
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Revenue (441)Expenses (439)Net assets (587)Peer revenue range

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 $1.9M to $3.4M (+79%).

$633k
$826k
$1.5M
$1.6M
$1.9M
$3.4M
$3.1M
$3.0M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 44% · 2018 37% · 2019 39% · 2020 46% · 2021 59% · 2022 52% · 2023 52% · 2024 58%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

102% of SMYAL Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 11,793 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$9k
’17
$196k
’18
$330k
’19
$151k
’20
$494k
’21
$455k
’22
$387k
’23
−$24k
’24
3.7
months of
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

Erin Whelan

Executive Director

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.

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Listed1617161616172019
Joined·+2+3+6+3+5+7+1
No longer listed·1463442
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 32 funders, grant income rose $56k → $513k.

12 of 74 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% 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 SMYAL Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 74 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

SMYAL Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 13% 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

84% 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 SMYAL Inc.

13%
largest funder
36%
top three
~15
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 47% · 2018 37% · 2019 43% · 2020 41% · 2021 18% · 2022 51% · 2023 19% — 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

41% of SMYAL Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

69% of SMYAL Inc's grant income comes from Washington, D.C. funders.

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WA
MN
NY
MA
PA
NJ
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CA
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MO
VA
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DE
NC
DC
HI
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Washington, D.C. out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

SMYAL Inc has grown faster than three-quarters of the 11,263 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−0% · below the median
Months of reserve3.7mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)24% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,263 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Government funding SMYAL Inc receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $540k on record.

Federal$540k
grants $540kcontracts $0
Top agencies
  • Department of Homeland Security$540k

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.

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

91% of spending goes to programs.

Program 91%Management 6%Fundraising 3%

Governance

15
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

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

MD

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SMYAL 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 SMYAL Inc?
SMYAL Inc (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 74 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,843,866 to it, the largest being JusticeAid ($500,000). 47 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SMYAL Inc have?
IRS filings report 74 organizations giving $3,843,866 in grants to SMYAL Inc, 47 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SMYAL Inc?
JusticeAid is the largest funder on record, with $500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SMYAL Inc find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 74 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