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SPECTRUM YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INC

SPECTRUM YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INC (Vermont) receives grants from 115 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,968,516 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($6,478,153). 79 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$8.7M
Revenue FY2024
115
Funders on record
$19M
Grants received
$11M
Net assets
79/115 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 53%

Against its field

SPECTRUM YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INC has grown faster than half of the 11,253 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−4% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve1.0mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)13% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,253 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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 ($3.8M) Expenses 100 ($3.5M) Net assets 100 ($5.8M)2018 Revenue 102 ($3.9M) Expenses 110 ($3.9M) Net assets 103 ($5.9M)2019 Revenue 147 ($5.6M) Expenses 146 ($5.1M) Net assets 111 ($6.4M)2020 Revenue 181 ($6.9M) Expenses 174 ($6.1M) Net assets 130 ($7.5M)2021 Revenue 199 ($7.6M) Expenses 208 ($7.3M) Net assets 141 ($8.1M)2022 Revenue 268 ($10M) Expenses 235 ($8.2M) Net assets 164 ($9.5M)2023 Revenue 229 ($8.7M) Expenses 243 ($8.5M) Net assets 179 ($10M)2024 Revenue 228 ($8.7M) Expenses 259 ($9.1M) Net assets 190 ($11M)
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Revenue (228)Expenses (259)Net assets (190)Peer revenue range

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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 13% · 2018 15% · 2019 31% · 2020 51% · 2021 43% · 2022 34% · 2023 35% · 2024 39%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

88% of SPECTRUM YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 11,740 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$326k
17
$39k
18
$526k
19
$825k
20
$351k
21
$2.0M
22
$253k
23
$335k
24
1.0
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 26 funders to 52 funders, grant income rose $1.4M → $2.6M.

14 of 115 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)50% 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 SPECTRUM YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 115 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

SPECTRUM YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 63%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

81% 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 SPECTRUM YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INC.

34%
largest funder
63%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2018 45% · 2019 35% · 2020 19% · 2021 33% · 2022 48% · 2023 36%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

58% of SPECTRUM YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% 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

77% of SPECTRUM YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INC's grant income comes from Vermont funders.

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

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Vermont out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $9.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 115 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Government funding SPECTRUM YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $6.0M on record.

Federal$6.0M
grants $6.0Mcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • Department of Health and Human Services$5.8M
  • Department of Housing and Urban Development$160k

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 SPECTRUM YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INC

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Vermont

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

80% of spending goes to programs.

Program 80%Management 11%Fundraising 8%

Governance

16
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

67%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Spectrum Works L3c · disregarded

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SPECTRUM YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES 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 SPECTRUM YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INC?
SPECTRUM YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INC (Vermont) receives grants from 115 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,968,516 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($6,478,153). 79 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SPECTRUM YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INC have?
IRS filings report 115 organizations giving $18,968,516 in grants to SPECTRUM YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INC, 79 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SPECTRUM YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INC?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $6,478,153 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SPECTRUM YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Vermont. 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 115funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing