Massachusetts · Nonprofit
YES WE CARE
YES WE CARE (Massachusetts) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $399,626 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC ($191,099). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $133k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $400k
- Net assets
- $75k
What Yes We Care does
Mission
To promote equity and support, we provide multi-generational comprehensive programs for under-served, overlooked, low to moderate-income families, youth, and Black, Indigenous and people of color (BIPOC), by offering unique and inclusive trainings, food assistance, and family-oriented programs in a workshop format. Additionally, a focus on mentoring/coaching and special events to address critical community issues involving our youth that gets to the root cause of the challenges youth face including school dropout, lack of youth mentoring, gang violence, unemployment, financial education, health and wellness, self-improvement, and positive youth development.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Food Distribution Program - Served as a food distribution hub for the community. We served over 105,000 individuals this past year.
$63,161 spentof which $63,161 as grants68% of program spendingLeaders in Committed Action (LICA) - This is an 8 week training program for teens and teens after the completion of the program served at some level in community agencies. We had over 50 teens participate in the program.
$20,000 spentof which $20,000 as grants21% of program spendingAshton Langford Basketball Program - This is a five week program for teens to help them not only learn how to play basketball, but to also learn leadership skills, teamwork, cooperation, and opportunity to develop their interpersonal skills. We had over 75 youth complete the program.
$10,000 spentof which $10,000 as grants11% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $93,161.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 $84k to $-19931 (−124%).
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: 2023 21% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of YES WE CARE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (83% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 4 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
Rev Clyde D Talley
President & CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $0 → $71k.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 30% 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 YES WE CARE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 6 of 7 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
YES WE CARE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
84% 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 YES WE CARE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 47% · 2022 64% · 2023 54% — 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
100% of YES WE CARE's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $121k 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
YES WE CARE's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 4 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,482 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding YES WE CARE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $140k on record.
- (MM) PURCHASED CLIENT/PROGRAM SVCS$100k
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$40k
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 YES WE CARE
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
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for YES WE CARE: 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 YES WE CARE?
- YES WE CARE (Massachusetts) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $399,626 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC ($191,099). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does YES WE CARE have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $399,626 in grants to YES WE CARE, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of YES WE CARE?
- UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC is the largest funder on record, with $191,099 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like YES WE CARE 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 7 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