Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
THE ATTIC YOUTH CENTER
THE ATTIC YOUTH CENTER (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 79 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,404,949 to it, the largest being The Pew Charitable Trusts ($430,000). 43 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.0M
- Funders on record
- 79
- Grants received
- $3.4M
- Net assets
- $2.3M
What The Attic Youth Center does
Mission
The Attic Youth Center creates opportunities for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning (lgbtq) youth to develop into healthy, independent, civic-minded adults within a safe and supportive community, and promotes the acceptance of lgbtq youth in society.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Introduction The Attic Youth Center is philadelphia's only agency exclusively serving lgbtq youth. Currently, the attic offers the following programs and services: 1) the life skills center provides individual and group opportunities for lgbtq youth to learn, practice, and master the skills they will need to successfully transition into adulthood. Youth participate in support groups, workshops, paid internships, individual life coaching, mentoring, case management, housing navigation, and hiv counseling. Programming is offered in five concentration areas: - career development - academic achievement - health and wellness - homelessness prevention and remediation - leadership development and civic engagement 2) mental health programming includes individual and family therapy as well as peer support groups. Counseling is provided by specialists in adolescent development. All attic counselors and therapists are members of the lgbtq community and provide sessions in person and virtually. 3) the bryson institute of The Attic Youth Center provides training, outreach, and consultation to schools, social service agencies, and faith communities across the tri-state area on the best…
$1,377,830 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,377,830.
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 2024 to 2025, from $2.6M to $5.3M (+101%).
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 28% · 2018 27% · 2019 25% · 2020 26% · 2021 29% · 2022 18% · 2023 34% · 2024 21% · 2025 26%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of THE ATTIC YOUTH CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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 19 funders to 33 funders, grant income rose $186k → $454k.
14 of 79 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 26% 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 THE ATTIC YOUTH CENTER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 79 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
THE ATTIC YOUTH CENTER has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 13% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
50% 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 THE ATTIC YOUTH CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 27% · 2018 29% · 2019 38% · 2020 39% · 2021 22% · 2022 21% · 2023 22% — 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
36% of THE ATTIC YOUTH CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
THE ATTIC YOUTH CENTER draws 59% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 18 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $889k arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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
THE ATTIC YOUTH CENTER is better cushioned than half of the 1,152 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,152 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like THE ATTIC YOUTH CENTER
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
60% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
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 THE ATTIC YOUTH CENTER: 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 THE ATTIC YOUTH CENTER?
- THE ATTIC YOUTH CENTER (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 79 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,404,949 to it, the largest being The Pew Charitable Trusts ($430,000). 43 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE ATTIC YOUTH CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 79 organizations giving $3,404,949 in grants to THE ATTIC YOUTH CENTER, 43 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE ATTIC YOUTH CENTER?
- The Pew Charitable Trusts is the largest funder on record, with $430,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE ATTIC YOUTH CENTER find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 79 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing