Michigan · Nonprofit
The Youth Connection Inc
The Youth Connection Inc (Michigan) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,600,553 to it, the largest being DETROIT EMPLOYMENT SOLUTIONS CORPORATION ($2,207,096). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.9M
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $2.6M
- Net assets
- $392k
What The Youth Connection Inc does
Mission
The Youth Connection is committed to connecting all youth and their families in metro Detroit to a brighter future by providing quality programs and supportive services.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Other Programs:(1) The Drug-Free Communities (DFC) program raised awareness of substance abuse in targeted zip codes of Detroit.(2) The CCAPS project expanded our NARCAN and substance abuse preventive and education activities.(3) CDBG-NOF program provided opportunities to Detroits youth aged 14-24 to learn a variety of careers through our partnership with a multitude of summer employment worksite partners and through trainings & workshops year-round.(4) Grow Detroit Young Talent (GDYT) Program. The program supported existing efforts to provide life & vocational skills training & summer work experience to Detroits youth aged 16-24.
$712,931 spent48% of program spendingThe Workforce Innovation & Opportunity Act (WIOA) Youth program provided employment & training activities to economically disadvantaged youth ages 14-24. The program emphasize on serving youth within the City of Detroit & integrates summer & year-round services for youth. Youth learned job expectations. We provided youth with life-skills training and opportunities to understand the duties & tasks necessary for success in various careers through career pathways and internship programs.
$325,448 spent22% of program spendingSubstance Abuse Program is a dynamic, participant-centered programs. It addresses the prevention & misuse of ATOD (Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs) in metropolitan Detroit through the delivery of the following services targeting youth & their immediate families: Botvin Lifeskills Training - we provided substance abuse prevention training to students & young adults. We helped slash alcohol consumption rates, cigarette use, and marijuana use amomg program participants. We also worked with DWIHN in Detroit to conduct tobacco vendor education visits to tobacco retailers.
$278,027 spent19% of program spendingCommunity Education: This program funded by United Catalyst in partnership with Detroit Housing Commission (DHC) supports substance abuse prevention & workforce development education throughout the City of Detroit with special consideration given families residing in DHC housing commumities.
$167,226 spent11% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,483,632.
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 $551k to $752k (+37%).
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 87% · 2018 87% · 2019 71% · 2020 83% · 2021 82% · 2022 93% · 2023 83% · 2024 94%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of The Youth Connection Inc’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. 2 of the last 8 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
Grenae Dudley
President & CEO
Board chair
Nadine Cook
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $27k → $418k.
1 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 Youth Connection Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 12 of 13 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 Youth Connection Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 85% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
97% 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 Youth Connection Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 93% · 2018 83% · 2019 55% · 2020 85% · 2021 97% · 2022 95% · 2023 76% — 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
60% of The Youth Connection Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
96% of The Youth Connection Inc's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $630 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
The Youth Connection Inc has grown faster than half of the 1,928 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,928 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding The Youth Connection Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.6M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$2.6M
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 Youth Connection 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 Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 Youth Connection 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 Youth Connection Inc?
- The Youth Connection Inc (Michigan) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,600,553 to it, the largest being DETROIT EMPLOYMENT SOLUTIONS CORPORATION ($2,207,096). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The Youth Connection Inc have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $2,600,553 in grants to The Youth Connection Inc, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Youth Connection Inc?
- DETROIT EMPLOYMENT SOLUTIONS CORPORATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,207,096 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Youth Connection Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 13 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