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WORCESTER YOUTH CENTER INC

WORCESTER YOUTH CENTER INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 52 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,346,855 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC ($409,796). 38 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$1.9M
Funders on record
52
Grants received
$2.3M
Net assets
$3.1M
38/52 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 30%
01What it does

What Worcester Youth Center Inc does

Mission

To provide services for disadvantaged youth

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Job development - resume preparation, interviewing skills and assistance with job placement.educational support - ged program and academic lab for home work assistance.

    $427,178 spent
    36% of program spending

  2. Outreach services - 40 youth trained as health outreach workers and peer leaders for all youth who visit the youth center.

    $610,065 spent
    52% of program spending

  3. Service referral - mediation and support services for 100 youth from at risk environments. (in-kind benefits support from memorial health care - $2,640)

    $145,297 spent
    12% of program spending

  4. Youth center - provide a facility for youth recreation and services.

The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,182,540.

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 ($792k) Expenses 100 ($914k) Net assets 100 ($1.4M)2018 Revenue 103 ($813k) Expenses 96 ($875k) Net assets 113 ($1.6M)2019 Revenue 150 ($1.2M) Expenses 106 ($965k) Net assets 122 ($1.7M)2020 Revenue 159 ($1.3M) Expenses 131 ($1.2M) Net assets 132 ($1.9M)2021 Revenue 198 ($1.6M) Expenses 144 ($1.3M) Net assets 164 ($2.3M)2022 Revenue 179 ($1.4M) Expenses 139 ($1.3M) Net assets 163 ($2.3M)2023 Revenue 180 ($1.4M) Expenses 158 ($1.4M) Net assets 169 ($2.4M)2024 Revenue 229 ($1.8M) Expenses 181 ($1.7M) Net assets 186 ($2.6M)2025 Revenue 243 ($1.9M) Expenses 165 ($1.5M) Net assets 223 ($3.1M)
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Revenue (243)Expenses (165)Net assets (223)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 2024 to 2025, from $3.2M to $3.9M (+22%).

$1.4M
$1.6M
$1.8M
$2.4M
$2.4M
$2.4M
$2.9M
$3.2M
$3.9M
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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

Government-grant reliance: 2017 2% · 2018 3% · 2019 2% · 2020 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

96% of WORCESTER YOUTH CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,038 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$122k
’17
−$62k
’18
$222k
’19
$63k
’20
$259k
’21
$141k
’22
−$16k
’23
$158k
’24
$417k
’25
24
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

Sam Martin

Executive director

Board chair

Ross Dik

Board president

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed141412777778
Joined·+2+0+0+2+0+0+1+1
No longer listed·22520010
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 26 funders, grant income rose $25k → $366k.

Funder
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'21
'22
'23
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'25*
total
DCU for Kidsunclassified
$68k
Reliant Foundation Incunclassified
$45k
The Lenny Zakim Fundunclassified
$10k
funders
8
16
22
23
32
26
26
23
17

5 of 52 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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 WORCESTER YOUTH CENTER INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 52 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

WORCESTER YOUTH CENTER INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left

39% 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 WORCESTER YOUTH CENTER INC.

17%
largest funder
41%
top three
~13
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 60% · 2018 46% · 2019 20% · 2020 34% · 2021 14% · 2022 21% · 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

57% of WORCESTER YOUTH CENTER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 73% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

85% of WORCESTER YOUTH CENTER INC's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.

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NH
WA
MN
IL
NY
MA
CT
DE
TX
FL

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

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Massachusetts out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $357k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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

WORCESTER YOUTH CENTER INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,152 youth development nonprofits its size.

Operating margin22% · top quartile
Months of reserve23.9mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)12% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,152 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Government funding WORCESTER YOUTH CENTER INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $5.1M on record.

State$5.1M
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Top programs
  • (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$4.4M
  • (MM) PURCHASED CLIENT/PROGRAM SVCS$724k
  • (EE) ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES$1k

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 WORCESTER YOUTH CENTER 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 Massachusetts

Worcester Jewish Community Center Inc81%United Way of Central Massachusetts Inc80%Boys and Girls Club of Worcester Inc79%YWCA Central Massachusetts Inc79%Young Women's Christian Association of Malden79%Wayside Youth and Family Support Network Inc78%Waltham Partnership for Youth Inc77%Foundation for Boston Centers for Youth & Families Inc77%

Nationally

Worcester Youth and Family Counseling Services Inc83%Worcester Jewish Community Center Inc81%United Way of Central Massachusetts Inc80%Youth Development Company and Police Athletic Activities League80%Boys and Girls Club of Worcester Inc79%YWCA Central Massachusetts Inc79%Youth Health Services Inc79%Youth Job Center Inc79%
05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

78% of spending goes to programs.

Program 78%Management 14%Fundraising 7%

Governance

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

Public support

98%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MA

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Questions and answers

Who funds WORCESTER YOUTH CENTER INC?
WORCESTER YOUTH CENTER INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 52 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,346,855 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC ($409,796). 38 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does WORCESTER YOUTH CENTER INC have?
IRS filings report 52 organizations giving $2,346,855 in grants to WORCESTER YOUTH CENTER INC, 38 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of WORCESTER YOUTH CENTER INC?
UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC is the largest funder on record, with $409,796 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like WORCESTER YOUTH CENTER INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 52 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