New York · Nonprofit
YOUNG NEW YORKERS INC
YOUNG NEW YORKERS INC (New York) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,736,705 to it, the largest being BROOKLYN DEFENDER SERVICES ($730,677). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $411k
- Funders on record
- 26
- Grants received
- $1.7M
- Net assets
- $114k
What Young New Yorkers Inc does
Mission
Founded in 2012, young new yorkers' restorative art diversion programs allow young people to exit the criminal legal system, have their cases dismissed and sealed, and avoid a life-long criminal record. In addition, our graduate programs offer long-term opportunities for young people to transform the criminal justice system through advocacy forums, public art exhibitions, and other events. These events often take place in courtrooms where participants can engage criminal justice professionals and leaders and advocate for a more humane criminal legal system.in ten years we have successfully diverted more than 1,800 young people away from jail and other sanctions. Today, we remain the only citywide provider of arts-based diversion programs.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Our restorative art-diversion program consists of one-, two-, or three-day structured art sessions. Rad sessions are taught by teaching artists including yny graduates and other credible messengers who have experience with the criminal legal system. Yny organizes rad workshops for approximately 300 participants each year.yny holds monthly graduate programs for young people to stay involved in our community following the completion of their session mandate. In 2021, yny launched its fellowship program. Yny fellows are invited to participate in weekly yny staff meetings to share insights into how yny can evolve as an organization. Fellows also co-facilitate rad sessions providing peer mentorship for new participants, helping new them to investigate their personal choices while advocating for legal systems change. Rad programs typically culminate in courtroom exhibitions, attended by police officers, judges, and lawyers, to "re-meet" participants in a new context and see young new yorkers beyond their rap sheets. Young new yorkers recently collaborated with moma ps1 to hold its first ever virtual exhibition. Curated by graduates of yny's programs, this public exhibit gave young…
$294,192 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $294,192.
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 $893k to $381k (−57%).
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: 2022 27% · 2023 22% · 2024 80% · 2025 55%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of YOUNG NEW YORKERS INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (94% 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.
Board chair
Camilla Velasquez
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $20k → $139k.
7 of 26 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 NEW YORKERS INC’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 NEW YORKERS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 65%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
71% 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 NEW YORKERS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 75% · 2018 100% · 2019 43% · 2020 96% · 2021 67% · 2022 61% · 2023 30% — 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
14% of YOUNG NEW YORKERS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 42% 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
94% of YOUNG NEW YORKERS INC's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $343k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
YOUNG NEW YORKERS INC's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 9 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,547 crime & legal nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
59% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
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 NEW YORKERS INC?
- YOUNG NEW YORKERS INC (New York) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,736,705 to it, the largest being BROOKLYN DEFENDER SERVICES ($730,677). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does YOUNG NEW YORKERS INC have?
- IRS filings report 26 organizations giving $1,736,705 in grants to YOUNG NEW YORKERS INC, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of YOUNG NEW YORKERS INC?
- BROOKLYN DEFENDER SERVICES is the largest funder on record, with $730,677 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like YOUNG NEW YORKERS 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.
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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 26 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