Connecticut · Nonprofit
YOUNG MENS INSTITUTE LIBRARY
YOUNG MENS INSTITUTE LIBRARY (Connecticut) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,127,248 to it, the largest being GIRL SCOUTS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ($747,001). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $190k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $1.1M
What Young Mens Institute Library does
Mission
The mission of the Young Mens Institute Library is to fulfill its historical purpose of "mutual assistance in the attainment of useful knowledge" for its members and the new haven community at large through literature, civil discourse, and the arts. Founded in 1826, before the public library movement, the library has been a center for community engagement for 200 years.the young mens institute carries out its mission through diverse programming that includes the loaning of books, lectures, author talks, movie screenings, music listening sessions, live performance, poetry, storytelling, a fellowship program for new haven high school students, and a gallery that features the work of local artists.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Maintaining the library and providing library services including various programmed events that engage the community in opportunities for life-long learning, civic discourse, and cultural enjoyment. Additionally, the organization maintains "the gallery upstairs", a curated art gallery featuring themed shows with open calls to artists every three months.
$91,387 spent$2,840 earned by the program69% of program spendingThe social justice reader, a fellowship opportunity for high school juniors to select a study topic, research it with support of a mentor, then present findings to the public at the end of the academic year.
$41,544 spent31% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $132,931.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
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 $1.4M to $1.1M (−22%).
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: 2024 17%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 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
Andrew Drabkin
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $46k → $104k.
3 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% 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 YOUNG MENS INSTITUTE LIBRARY’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
YOUNG MENS INSTITUTE LIBRARY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 66% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
98% 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 YOUNG MENS INSTITUTE LIBRARY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 55% · 2018 75% · 2019 50% · 2020 79% · 2021 95% · 2022 71% · 2023 58% — 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
29% of YOUNG MENS INSTITUTE LIBRARY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 36% 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
YOUNG MENS INSTITUTE LIBRARY draws 94% of its grant income from funders outside Connecticut, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $330k 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.
Government funding YOUNG MENS INSTITUTE LIBRARY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $219k on record.
- Pass thru Grant Non-State$219k
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 YOUNG MENS INSTITUTE LIBRARY
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 Connecticut
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
63% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
68%
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 YOUNG MENS INSTITUTE LIBRARY?
- YOUNG MENS INSTITUTE LIBRARY (Connecticut) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,127,248 to it, the largest being GIRL SCOUTS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ($747,001). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does YOUNG MENS INSTITUTE LIBRARY have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $1,127,248 in grants to YOUNG MENS INSTITUTE LIBRARY, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of YOUNG MENS INSTITUTE LIBRARY?
- GIRL SCOUTS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA is the largest funder on record, with $747,001 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like YOUNG MENS INSTITUTE LIBRARY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 11 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