Vermont · Nonprofit
SPECTRUM YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INC
SPECTRUM YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INC (Vermont) receives grants from 121 organizations whose IRS filings report $19,188,656 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($6,478,153). 82 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $9.5M
- Funders on record
- 121
- Grants received
- $19M
- Net assets
- $11M
What Spectrum Youth and Family Services Inc does
Mission
To empower teenagers, young adults, and their families to make and sustain postive changes through prevention, intervention, and life skills services.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Residential programs include three residential facilities and two emergency shelters providing services to help youth transition to independent living. In fy25, spectrum provided transitional housing to 10 individuals, short- term housing to 20 individuals, and nightly shelter services to 58 individuals.
$1,740,216 spent$87,228 earned by the program22% of program spendingThe counseling program is nationally recognized and specializes in the assessment and treatment of mental health and substance use concerns for adolescents and young adults. In fy25, spectrum's counseling program provided services to 298 individuals.
$1,454,032 spent$578,382 earned by the program18% of program spendingThe outreach/drop in centers helps youth with basic needs (such as food and clothing) and offers job training classes, driver education and other services. In fy25, spectrum's drop-in centers provided services to 448 individuals.
$1,038,539 spent13% of program spendingDetail works gives youth progressive, on-the-job experience, with an emphasis on attention, communication, and accountability, and gives youth a chance to try out these skills in a safe environment. Detail works closed in september 2025. Other programs, including compass, the youth development program, the multicultural youth program, jobs, mentoring, and the direct cash transfer program, focus on individualized services for youth, offering independent living skills, job training and development and substance abuse education, and identifying additional programs to help youth become contributing members of the community.
$3,739,280 spent$258,754 earned by the program47% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $7,972,067.
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 $8.9M to $10M (+16%).
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 13% · 2018 15% · 2019 31% · 2020 51% · 2021 43% · 2022 34% · 2023 35% · 2024 39% · 2025 35%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
85% of SPECTRUM YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 26 funders to 52 funders, grant income rose $1.4M → $2.6M.
15 of 121 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 49% 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 121 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 62%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
80% 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.
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
57% of SPECTRUM YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 68% 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
76% of SPECTRUM YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INC's grant income comes from Vermont funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $9.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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
SPECTRUM YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INC has grown faster than half of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
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.
- 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
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 Vermont
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
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
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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 121 organizations whose IRS filings report $19,188,656 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($6,478,153). 82 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SPECTRUM YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INC have?
- IRS filings report 121 organizations giving $19,188,656 in grants to SPECTRUM YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INC, 82 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 121 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