New York · Nonprofit
UNDER 21
UNDER 21 (New York) receives grants from 62 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,299,186 to it, the largest being ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION ($995,000). 42 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $37M
- Funders on record
- 62
- Grants received
- $7.3M
- Net assets
- $10M
What Under 21 does
Mission
Since 1972, Under 21, d.b.a. Covenant house new york (chny) has been working with one of new york city's most vulnerable populations - youth experiencing homelessness, age 16-24, and their dependent children. Chny provides young people sustainable pathways out of homelessness, which we help facilitate through a rich continuum of care that includes: shelter, transitional and permanent housing; physical and behavioral healthcare; workforce development and education; anti-human trafficking services and advocacy; legal services; recreation and youth development; and lgbtq+-focused programs. In an effort to make our services wholly trauma-informed, chny has implemented evidence-based practices (ebps) across the agency. We serve over 1,500 unique individuals per year through our residential and support service programs.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Crisis shelter -covenant house new york (chny) provides services to youth experiencing homelessness who have nowhere else to turn. The chny crisis shelter is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year to any youth or young adult, age 16-21 who is experiencing homelessness. Chny also provides a 20-bed shelter for young female-identified adults, ages 21-24. Youth can stay in our crisis shelters for up to 60 days, or 120 days with an extension allowed by nys office of children and family services (ocfs). In fy2025, covenant house new york provided shelter and supportive services to 692 youth between these two sites. With capacity 140 beds per night, chny's crisis shelters specialize in ensuring that at-risk young people receive basic needs while moving toward stability in a supportive setting that emphasizes warmth and compassion. Many people who come to our crisis shelter have experienced significant trauma, including abuse, trafficking, rejection from family of origin, etc. The focus of chny's crisis shelter is to ensure the provision of basic needs in the form of food, shelter, and clothing, along with appropriate support and wraparound services such as counseling,…
$14,980,877 spentof which $3,263,673 as grants47% of program spendingRights of passage ("rop") transitional independent living -many people who benefit from chny's shelter program qualify for entry into our rights of passage (rop) program. Rop is a longer-term, 24-month program for youth and young adults, ages 16-21, and includes the same wraparound supports as our crisis shelter. Rop also provides permanent housing assistance and planning for youth while they reside in the program. Rop provided longer-term transitional independent living to 105 young people in fy2025. The primary goal of rop is to prepare and move young people toward independence and self-sufficiency. People residing in rop not only benefit from provision of basic needs in the form of housing, food, and clothing but also from vigorous, evidence-based supports designed to encourage development of essential life and employment skills. Rop helps each resident develop and implement a personal plan designed to ensure that he or she is achieving goals and moving toward higher levels of independence and self-sufficiency. In addition to rop, chny also operates a hud-funded transitional housing program. This program provides the same two-year housing and supports, but for young adults ages…
$7,748,641 spentof which $378,432 as grants$136,225 earned by the program24% of program spendingHealth clinic -chny operates a federally qualified health center (fqhc) through which it provides comprehensive health services. In fy2025, 746 homeless and/or runaway young people received care, and 4401 medical visits were provided. The health clinic is staffed with medical and administrative professionals who are trained in trauma informed care. This includes a doctor and nurse practitioners who specialize in such discrete areas as family health, women's health, and psychiatric care. The health clinic also provides mental health services in order to ensure we help to meet the significant needs of our young people, many of whom have extensive histories of trauma. Collectively, health clinic staff ensure the delivery of high-quality health services in a compassionate atmosphere. The health clinic also works closely with specialists and hospitals in the community to ensure a seamless referral system when needed.
$4,677,546 spentof which $37,992 as grants$201,792 earned by the program15% of program spendingRapid re-housing and permanent housing -chny has been operating family covenant, a permanent housing program for families, since 2018. This program provides 30 apartment placements for young adults and their children, as well as evidence-based interventions that promote positive parenting models for young parents. In fy2025, 34 young adults and 52 children were served in this program. Chny also operates a hud-funded rapid re-housing program, which began operation in late 2019. This program provides apartment placements for 50 youth (and their children, if applicable), with the same wraparound and support services provided to our other permanent housing residents. In fy2025, chny provided housing and support services to 57 youth through the rapid re-housing program. In fy2025, chny provided support services to 58 youth through the housing navigation program.
$4,352,672 spentof which $1,689,630 as grants14% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $31,759,736.
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 $14M to $28M (+98%).
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 48% · 2018 46% · 2019 54% · 2020 64% · 2021 61% · 2022 60% · 2023 59% · 2024 57% · 2025 63%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of UNDER 21’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations 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. 1 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.
Board chair
Louis Rauchenberger
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 14 funders to 27 funders, grant income rose $433k → $679k.
21 of 62 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 42% 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: $77M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Covenant House). These are real filings, and they are not money UNDER 21 raised.
From the IRS filings of UNDER 21’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 62 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
UNDER 21 has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
63% 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 UNDER 21.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 37% · 2018 26% · 2019 55% · 2020 38% · 2021 17% · 2022 43% · 2023 25% — 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
50% of UNDER 21's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 68% 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
67% of UNDER 21'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. $3.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 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
UNDER 21 is better cushioned than half of the 2,396 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,396 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding UNDER 21 receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $48.5M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$29.2M
- Department of Health and Human Services$16.6M
- Department of Justice$2.7M
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 UNDER 21
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
86% 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
Part of a family of 31 related entities
- Covenant House · exempt
- Covenant House Alaska · exempt
- Covenant House California · exempt
- Covenant House Florida · exempt
- Covenant House Georgia · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for UNDER 21: 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 UNDER 21?
- UNDER 21 (New York) receives grants from 62 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,299,186 to it, the largest being ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION ($995,000). 42 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UNDER 21 have?
- IRS filings report 62 organizations giving $7,299,186 in grants to UNDER 21, 42 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNDER 21?
- ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $995,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNDER 21 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.
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 62 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