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Western Youth Services

Western Youth Services (California) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,182,708 to it, the largest being ORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($326,721). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$35M
Funders on record
15
Grants received
$1.2M
Net assets
$4.4M
8/15 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 2%
01What it does

What Western Youth Services does

Mission

Western Youth Services (WYS) is a community-based nonprofit organization providing prevention and mental health treatment services for youth experiencing emotional and behavioral challenges, as well as their families. Services are delivered at multiple mental health clinics and various School and community-based locations throughout Orange County, California.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Orange County Services Programs: Psychological assessments, counseling, case & medication management, training, individual/group & family services to residents of Orange County.

    $26,791,361 spent$28,981,689 earned by the program
    89% of program spending
  2. City & Other Organizations Programs: WYS provides psychological assessments, counseling, case management, individual/group & family services.

    $3,383,197 spent$3,735,969 earned by the program
    11% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $30,174,558.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($17M) Expenses 100 ($17M) Net assets 100 ($1.8M)2018 Revenue 102 ($17M) Expenses 103 ($17M) Net assets 102 ($1.9M)2019 Revenue 95 ($16M) Expenses 98 ($16M) Net assets 86 ($1.6M)2020 Revenue 109 ($18M) Expenses 111 ($19M) Net assets 76 ($1.4M)2021 Revenue 144 ($24M) Expenses 139 ($23M) Net assets 140 ($2.6M)2022 Revenue 126 ($21M) Expenses 126 ($21M) Net assets 156 ($2.9M)2023 Revenue 142 ($24M) Expenses 143 ($24M) Net assets 167 ($3.1M)2024 Revenue 185 ($31M) Expenses 185 ($31M) Net assets 191 ($3.5M)2025 Revenue 206 ($35M) Expenses 203 ($34M) Net assets 238 ($4.4M)
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Revenue (206)Expenses (203)Net assets (238)Peer revenue range

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 $6.7M to $12M (+79%).

$3.5M
$3.3M
$3.4M
$5.6M
$4.4M
$4.8M
$6.7M
$12M
$14M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

4% of Western Youth Services’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (21% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,400 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$222k
’17
$30k
’18
−$282k
’19
−$193k
’20
$1.2M
’21
$292k
’22
$207k
’23
$434k
’24
$864k
’25
1.0
months of
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

Lorrayne Leigh Belhumeur PhD

CEO

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed131417161614151414
Joined·+2+6+4+3+1+4+1+5
No longer listed·13533325
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $75k → $52k.

5 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 39% 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 Western Youth Services’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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

Western Youth Services has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

85% 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 Western Youth Services.

28%
largest funder
57%
top three
~7
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 80% · 2018 64% · 2019 80% · 2020 60% · 2021 43% · 2022 72% · 2023 48% — 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

38% of Western Youth Services's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

77% of Western Youth Services's grant income comes from California funders.

WA
IL
CA
MO

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’22
’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $457k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Western Youth Services has grown faster than half of the 2,297 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin2% · below the median
Months of reserve1.0mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)9% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,297 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025

Organizations like Western 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.

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

89% of spending goes to programs.

Program 89%Management 11%Fundraising 0%

Governance

7
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

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

CA

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Western 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 Western Youth Services?
Western Youth Services (California) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,182,708 to it, the largest being ORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($326,721). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Western Youth Services have?
IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $1,182,708 in grants to Western Youth Services, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Western Youth Services?
ORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $326,721 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Western 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 15 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