California · Nonprofit
Trinity Youth Services
Trinity Youth Services (California) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,274,367 to it, the largest being JOHN APOSTLE & HELEN APOSTLE FOUNDATION ($650,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $20M
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $1.3M
- Net assets
- $11M
What Trinity Youth Services does
Mission
Trinity Youth Services is a 501(c)(3) non-profit agency providing out-of-home placement services to California's children ages 0-18, who are in need of foster care, residential treatment, specialty mental/behavioral health and/or adoptive placement programs and services. Since Trinity Youth Services opened its doors in 1966, the agency has fulfilled its mission of "helping children and families create a better future" by assisting more than 65,000 trauma-affected children to heal and providing them with the knowledge, skills and tools to achieve happy, healthy, permanent relationships in "forever family" settings. Trinity's fully-licensed, nationally accredited quality programs and services are delivered in safe, caring environments by highly-trained staff.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Trinity Youth Services provides long term foster care (LTFC) and shelter services for unaccompanied and refugee children, under a cooperative agreement with the office of refugee resettlement (ORR). Trinity's programs promote the health, wellbeing, and stability of these children through culturally responsive, trauma informed, and strengths based services.
$7,374,024 spent$9,672,608 earned by the program48% of program spendingThe residential treatment campuses provide comprehensive care for adolescent males placed through court and social service mandates. 24/7/365 behavior and mental health integrated programs are focused on providing youth with the knowledge, skills and tools for community reentry and permanency. The foster care program provides complete care for children placed with certified families. Trinity utilizes a highly qualified staff of masters level social workers and support staff to recruit, certify and monitor family homes and provide care management for children from placement to permanency. Adoption services are also provided.
$5,460,588 spent$6,198,312 earned by the program36% of program spendingMental health services provides intensive services not covered by contracts for essential client services, but deemed necessary for the client's progress and wellbeing individualized therapy, drug and alcohol programs, anger management and behavior modification services in a proprietary setting.
$2,521,718 spent$3,093,075 earned by the program16% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $15,356,330.
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 2022 to 2023, from $4.1M to $15M (+266%).
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 96% · 2018 97% · 2019 99% · 2020 98% · 2021 98% · 2022 99% · 2023 99% · 2024 98%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
1% of Trinity Youth Services’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
Cher Ofstedahl
COO/CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $3k → $229k.
2 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 Trinity Youth Services’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 7 of 9 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
Trinity Youth Services leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
45% 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 Trinity Youth Services.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 66% · 2019 66% · 2020 54% · 2021 50% · 2022 66% · 2023 65% — 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.
Where its funders are
99% of Trinity Youth Services's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
Trinity Youth Services's funding base is broadening — from 3 funders to 4 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,297 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding Trinity Youth Services receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $25.2M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$25.2M
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 Trinity Youth Services
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.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 32 related entities
- Abraxas Alliance Inc · exempt
- Advancing Opportunities Inc · exempt
- Anchors - from Carol · exempt
- APIS Services Inc · exempt
- Children and Family Services Inc · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Trinity Youth Services: 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 Trinity Youth Services?
- Trinity Youth Services (California) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,274,367 to it, the largest being JOHN APOSTLE & HELEN APOSTLE FOUNDATION ($650,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Trinity Youth Services have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $1,274,367 in grants to Trinity Youth Services, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Trinity Youth Services?
- JOHN APOSTLE & HELEN APOSTLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $650,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Trinity Youth Services 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 9 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