New York · Nonprofit
UNLOCKING FUTURES INC
UNLOCKING FUTURES INC (New York) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $978,689 to it, the largest being IMPACTASSETSINC ($168,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $293k
- Funders on record
- 31
- Grants received
- $979k
- Net assets
- $80k
What Unlocking Futures Inc does
Mission
The organization provides programs with effective means of combating juvenile delinquency, substance abuse and unemployment among at-risk teenage youth.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Warrior's way - a program for middle school aged boys who do not have a father figure in the home, the goals of the program include preventing incarceration and teaching the participants to beresponsible people in their communities.women to women- nine month program which seeks to empower young women with the ability to overcome obstacles and develop a mindset of success and independence.world leaders - a co-ed program which provides students who are potential leaders but are displaying disruptive behavior and declining acadmeic proficiency with unique transformational curriculum and mentorship.co-parenting - a program designed to help young fathers and mothers, ages 16-25, become materially responsible and emotionally engaged in their children's lives.quantum leap - program for male and female students focuses on development in three areas, education, community service, and life-skill development. This program empowers students to make a quantum leap towards the future.
$362,042 spent$8,029 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $362,042.
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 $280k to $104k (−63%).
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 7% · 2021 26% · 2022 13% · 2023 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of UNLOCKING FUTURES INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Claudette Faison
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 9 funders to 5 funders, grant income fell $148k → $65k.
12 of 31 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 49% 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 UNLOCKING FUTURES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 31 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
UNLOCKING FUTURES INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% 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
91% 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 UNLOCKING FUTURES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 34% · 2018 27% · 2019 33% · 2020 38% · 2021 65% · 2022 93% · 2023 53% — growing more concentrated.
“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
17% of UNLOCKING FUTURES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 45% 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
UNLOCKING FUTURES INC draws 69% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 11 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $475k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
UNLOCKING FUTURES INC's revenue fell 60% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,616 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like UNLOCKING FUTURES 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
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
89%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds UNLOCKING FUTURES INC?
- UNLOCKING FUTURES INC (New York) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $978,689 to it, the largest being IMPACTASSETSINC ($168,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UNLOCKING FUTURES INC have?
- IRS filings report 31 organizations giving $978,689 in grants to UNLOCKING FUTURES INC, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNLOCKING FUTURES INC?
- IMPACTASSETSINC is the largest funder on record, with $168,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNLOCKING FUTURES 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.
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 31 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