Indiana · Nonprofit
SPECIALIZED ALTERNATIVES FOR FAMILIES & YOUTH OF INDIANA INC
SPECIALIZED ALTERNATIVES FOR FAMILIES & YOUTH OF INDIANA INC (Indiana) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,249,900 to it, the largest being DAVE THOMAS FOUNDATION FOR ADOPTION ($2,239,400). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $6.3M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $2.2M
- Net assets
- $724k
What Specialized Alternatives for Families & Youth of Indiana Inc does
Mission
At safy, our vision is to create thriving families and communities where every individual, regardless of background or circumstance, can reach their full potential.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Foster care - safy of indiana provides therapuetic/treatment foster care to children who experience trauma and are removed from family via court action. Safy recruits and trains foster families to provide safe and stable environments while addressing the emotional and behavioral needs of the child and make positive changes in their lives. Our overall goal is to assist children achieve permanancy.
$4,045,782 spent$4,589,184 earned by the program79% of program spendingEmpowering families - safy of indiana's family preservation and reunification services walk alongside families to help build the skills parents need to ensure a nurturing environment where youth can be safely cared for within the home. Our goal is to keep families together when safely possible because healthy families build strong communities.
$1,075,720 spent$1,426,335 earned by the program21% of program spendingMental health services - safy of indiana provides mental health counseling to the foster youth and outpatient clients in the vicinity of the offices. Services include family focused prevention services which serve to keep families together.
$1,080 spent$278,318 earned by the program0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,122,582.
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 $991k to $1.3M (+32%).
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: 2024 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
5% of SPECIALIZED ALTERNATIVES FOR FAMILIES & YOUTH OF INDIANA INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue 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.
Board chair
James Pozy
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $350k → $419k.
Left out of every figure on this page: $500k from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Specialized Alternatives for Families & Youth of America Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money SPECIALIZED ALTERNATIVES FOR FAMILIES & YOUTH OF INDIANA INC raised.
From the IRS filings of SPECIALIZED ALTERNATIVES FOR FAMILIES & YOUTH OF INDIANA 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
SPECIALIZED ALTERNATIVES FOR FAMILIES & YOUTH OF INDIANA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 SPECIALIZED ALTERNATIVES FOR FAMILIES & YOUTH OF INDIANA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 96% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
SPECIALIZED ALTERNATIVES FOR FAMILIES & YOUTH OF INDIANA INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Indiana, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
SPECIALIZED ALTERNATIVES FOR FAMILIES & YOUTH OF INDIANA INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 11,263 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,263 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding SPECIALIZED ALTERNATIVES FOR FAMILIES & YOUTH OF INDIANA INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $739k on record.
- Department of Justice$739k
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 SPECIALIZED ALTERNATIVES FOR FAMILIES & YOUTH OF INDIANA 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
85% 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
Part of a family of 9 related entities
- Safy of America Inc · exempt
- Safy Holding Company · exempt
- Safy of Ohio Inc · exempt
- Safy of South Carolina Inc · exempt
- Safy of Nevada Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SPECIALIZED ALTERNATIVES FOR FAMILIES & YOUTH OF INDIANA INC?
- SPECIALIZED ALTERNATIVES FOR FAMILIES & YOUTH OF INDIANA INC (Indiana) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,249,900 to it, the largest being DAVE THOMAS FOUNDATION FOR ADOPTION ($2,239,400). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SPECIALIZED ALTERNATIVES FOR FAMILIES & YOUTH OF INDIANA INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $2,249,900 in grants to SPECIALIZED ALTERNATIVES FOR FAMILIES & YOUTH OF INDIANA INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SPECIALIZED ALTERNATIVES FOR FAMILIES & YOUTH OF INDIANA INC?
- DAVE THOMAS FOUNDATION FOR ADOPTION is the largest funder on record, with $2,239,400 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SPECIALIZED ALTERNATIVES FOR FAMILIES & YOUTH OF INDIANA 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.
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 3 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