Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
THE FORUM FOR YOUTH INVESTMENT
THE FORUM FOR YOUTH INVESTMENT (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,630,782 to it, the largest being The Wallace Foundation ($4,057,000). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.6M
- Funders on record
- 35
- Grants received
- $21M
- Net assets
- $1.7M
What The Forum for Youth Investment does
Mission
Our mission is to advance equitable youth opportunities and outcomes through quality capacity building and policy action across systems and sectors. All young people reach their fullest potential - in education, work, and life.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Youth program quality: the forum's weikart center for program quality provides public and private partners with tools, assessments, coaching, and training workshops to improve the quality of youth experiences in out-of-school time (ost) programming. Our signature youth program quality improvement (ypqi) approach is an evidence-based approach to continuous quality improvement (cqi) that harnesses the power of research and practitioner experience. Rooted in both data and field-tested implementation, ypqi materials and practices are customizable and scalable to a partner's program type, size, and setting.
$3,673,121 spentof which $17,745 as grants$2,260,113 earned by the program66% of program spendingCross-system consulting: the forum engages public agencies, multi-service organizations, and coordinating bodies in building more aligned and effective youth development ecosystems. We serve as strategic thought partners to system leaders, helping them use data to assess needs, identify gaps, and co-create actionable road maps that integrate solutions across sectors. Our team brings expertise in system-level change, centering youth and family experiences while fostering innovation, accountability, and shared impact.
$1,367,930 spent25% of program spendingPolicy: the forum's policy and advocacy efforts prioritize amplifying the voices and experiences of young people, adults, and communities to embed positive youth development and continuous quality improvement into federal legislation and local policy. We support policymakers, funders, and system leaders by translating research and field experience into actionable strategies. Through convenings, coalitions, initiatives, and partnerships, the forum works to ensure that decisions are grounded in lived expertise and that systems are better equipped to support young people.
$534,954 spent$13,287 earned by the program10% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,576,005.
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 2019 to 2020, from $7.5M to $11M (+47%).
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 8% · 2018 6% · 2019 4% · 2020 4% · 2021 16% · 2022 14% · 2023 7% · 2024 25% · 2025 26%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
36% of THE FORUM FOR YOUTH INVESTMENT’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue 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. 6 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.
Chief executive
Mishaela Duran
President and CEO
Board chair
Bryan Samuels
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $1.2M → $1.8M.
5 of 35 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $1.7M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Cady-Lee Properties Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money THE FORUM FOR YOUTH INVESTMENT raised.
From the IRS filings of THE FORUM FOR YOUTH INVESTMENT’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 35 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 FORUM FOR YOUTH INVESTMENT has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 46% · 2018 32% · 2019 24% · 2020 42% · 2021 40% · 2022 38% · 2023 24% — 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
41% of THE FORUM FOR YOUTH INVESTMENT's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 74% 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 FORUM FOR YOUTH INVESTMENT draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 13 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $435k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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 FORUM FOR YOUTH INVESTMENT's funding base is broadening — from 11 funders to 13 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,504 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding THE FORUM FOR YOUTH INVESTMENT receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $60k on record.
- Educational Services$60k
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 FORUM FOR YOUTH INVESTMENT
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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
54%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 3 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Cady-Lee Properties Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE FORUM FOR YOUTH INVESTMENT: 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 FORUM FOR YOUTH INVESTMENT?
- THE FORUM FOR YOUTH INVESTMENT (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,630,782 to it, the largest being The Wallace Foundation ($4,057,000). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE FORUM FOR YOUTH INVESTMENT have?
- IRS filings report 35 organizations giving $20,630,782 in grants to THE FORUM FOR YOUTH INVESTMENT, 26 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE FORUM FOR YOUTH INVESTMENT?
- The Wallace Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $4,057,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE FORUM FOR YOUTH INVESTMENT find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 35 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