California · Nonprofit
Teen Advocacy Going Strong
Teen Advocacy Going Strong (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $40,000 to it, the largest being THE JOSEPH AND VERA LONG FOUNDATION ($30,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $93k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $40k
- Net assets
- $34k
What Teen Advocacy Going Strong does
Mission
Teen Advocacy Going Strong empowers youth through creative expression. Our creative reuse hub serves underserved teens and young adults in the Bay Area. Through hands-on experience in business, entrepreneurship, and the arts, we foster self-confidence, well-being, and career readiness.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
In 2025, our Creative Reuse Youth Program celebrated the following accomplishments: We served approximately 200 teens and young adults through our in-store programs and community events, and engaged over 2,000 through our thrift store, social media platforms, and events. We've maintained our waste diversion of 2 tons, diverting textiles from going to landfill through our thrift store and reuse efforts.
$92,156 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $92,156.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 $13k to $28k (+120%).
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.
98% of Teen Advocacy Going Strong’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $10k → $15k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% 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 Teen Advocacy Going Strong’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
Teen Advocacy Going Strong leans on a few funders — its largest provides 75% 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
25% 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 Teen Advocacy Going Strong.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 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
100% of Teen Advocacy Going Strong's grant income comes from California funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
Teen Advocacy Going Strong has grown faster than half of the 695 civil rights nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 695 civil rights nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like Teen Advocacy Going Strong
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Teen Advocacy Going Strong: 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 Teen Advocacy Going Strong?
- Teen Advocacy Going Strong (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $40,000 to it, the largest being THE JOSEPH AND VERA LONG FOUNDATION ($30,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Teen Advocacy Going Strong have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $40,000 in grants to Teen Advocacy Going Strong, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Teen Advocacy Going Strong?
- THE JOSEPH AND VERA LONG FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $30,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Teen Advocacy Going Strong find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 2 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