New York · Nonprofit
The Center for Youth Services Inc
The Center for Youth Services Inc (New York) receives grants from 85 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,578,008 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREATER ROCHESTER AND THE FINGER LAKES INC ($3,692,109). 62 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2026
- $18M
- Funders on record
- 85
- Grants received
- $17M
- Net assets
- $9.5M
What The Center for Youth Services Inc does
Mission
We partner with youth to realize their full potential, by creating opportunities, removing barriers, and promoting racial justice.
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.
Programs
School Based Programs:The Center's school-based programs work with youth and families to enhance school stability, connectedness, and improved attendance, which leads to academic success and graduation. These programs include: Alternatives to Suspension, Crisis Intervention/Help Zone, Expanded Learning Opportunities, and Prevention Education Services. The programs are offered at both elementary and secondary schools in the City of Rochester, New York, in school sites throughout Monroe County, most notably in Greece and Penfield, in charter schools and in contiguous counties throughout New York State.(Continued on Schedule O) Alternatives to Suspension programs are designed to reduce short-term out-of-school suspensions, minimize disruptive behavior, and keep students on track with their academics. Crisis Intervention/Help Zone programs support the academic and interpersonal success of students by providing immediate crisis response, offering an individualized intervention for social and emotional behaviors, and providing parental engagement opportunities in crisis situations as well as prevention and intervention opportunities. Expanded Learning Opportunity programs provide…
$8,867,606 spent$8,083,416 earned by the program56% of program spendingRunaway and Homeless:1. Emergency Shelter ProgramThrough our homeless youth shelter, The Center House, or in their volunteer Host Homes, the program provides a short-term voluntary safe haven to homeless and runaway youth ages 12-21 (12-17 for Shelter, 12-21 for Host Homes). During their stay, youth receive chemical dependency prevention counseling, individual and family counseling, and case management services to assist in reuniting them with their families, as well as supportive aftercare services.(Continued on Schedule O.)Through Life Skills workshops and one on one counseling, The Center works with each youth to increase their coping skills and avoid environments that lead to high risk activities such as alcohol and substance abuse. When reunification is not possible, youth are assisted with securing alternative stable housing.2. Transitional Living Program (Devonshire, Chrysalis House, and Arnett House)The Transitional Living Program is designed to support older homeless youth ages 16-21, who do not have family support as they transition into adulthood. The Center provides subsidized apartments or assistance in securing stable housing, case management and independent living…
$3,741,571 spent$64,943 earned by the program24% of program spendingWorkforce Initiative: Learn 2 Earn (L2E): This asset-based year-round workforce program includes both the L2E out of school program for youth 16-21 years and in school participation for youth ages 14-18 years still in school. RochesterWorks! is the funder for the L2E out of school program and the in school program in funded through the support of the ESL Foundation. These programs provide both summer employment and permanent employment through job coaching, career exploration, credential attainment, and volunteering in the community, mentoring and academic enrichment, and social/emotional support as well as personal exploration. L2E is also particularly focused on the needs and challenges of older youth who may also face homelessness and are in need of employment and educational opportunities to sustain and thrive. This program includes funding by contributions and government grants in the amount of $306,787.
$581,814 spent$233,949 earned by the program4% of program spendingCounseling Intervention:Counselors provide essential chemical dependency prevention, individual and family counseling, and crisis intervention services including youth intake and assessment, case management, advocacy, and follow-up. Utilizing evidence-based practices and programs, counselors work with youth to increase decision-making skills and protective factors in order to reduce alcohol and substance abuse and other high-risk behaviors. Counseling staff are stationed in The Center's downtown office, schools, and community organizations.Information and referral services are available 24 hours a day through the staffed help line to ensure maximum accessibility and responsiveness to youth needs.This program includes funding by contributions and government grants in the amount of $626,086.Teen Court: Rochester Teen Court is a voluntary, peer-to-peer alternative intended to turn a young person's first encounter with the adult criminal justice system into their last. A judge presides over the court with youth volunteers serving as jurors and attorneys. Cases are selected when defendants realize their responsibility and are willing to accept the sentence selected by their peers.…
$2,534,930 spent$232,868 earned by the program16% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $15,725,921.
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 2023 to 2024, from $5.9M to $9.3M (+57%).
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 29% · 2018 32% · 2019 32% · 2020 29% · 2021 44% · 2022 31% · 2023 30% · 2024 36% · 2025 29% · 2026 30%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
51% of The Center for Youth Services Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 10 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.
Chief executive
Elaine Spaull
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2026 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 20 funders to 40 funders, grant income rose $521k → $3.4M.
12 of 85 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 28% 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 Center for Youth Services Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 85 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 Center for Youth Services Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
47% 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 Center for Youth Services Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 39% · 2018 28% · 2019 37% · 2020 40% · 2021 15% · 2022 28% · 2023 27% — 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 The Center for Youth Services Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 73% 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
92% of The Center for Youth Services Inc's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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 Center for Youth Services Inc has grown faster than three-quarters of the 3,381 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,381 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2026
Government funding The Center for Youth Services Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $11.6M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$7.4M
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$4.2M
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 The Center for Youth 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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
85%
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 1 related entity
- CYS Properties Inc · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for The Center for Youth 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 The Center for Youth Services Inc?
- The Center for Youth Services Inc (New York) receives grants from 85 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,578,008 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREATER ROCHESTER AND THE FINGER LAKES INC ($3,692,109). 62 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The Center for Youth Services Inc have?
- IRS filings report 85 organizations giving $16,578,008 in grants to The Center for Youth Services Inc, 62 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Center for Youth Services Inc?
- UNITED WAY OF GREATER ROCHESTER AND THE FINGER LAKES INC is the largest funder on record, with $3,692,109 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Center for Youth Services Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 FY2026 (financials across 2017–2026), and the filings of 85 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