Colorado · Nonprofit
YOUNG PEOPLE IN RECOVERY
YOUNG PEOPLE IN RECOVERY (Colorado) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,098,522 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($3,025,250). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.1M
- Funders on record
- 40
- Grants received
- $8.1M
- Net assets
- $4.3M
What Young People in Recovery does
Mission
To provide the life skills and peer supports to help young people recover from substance use disorder and reach their full potential.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
National operations: Young People in Recovery (ypr) envisions a world where all young people have the resources they need to thrive in recovery from addiction to drugs and alcohol. Ypr's mission is to provide the life skills and peer support to help young people recover from substance use disorder and reach their full potential. To do this, ypr organizes community-based chapters to support youth & young adults by creating a national network of Young People in Recovery and empowering individuals to get involved in their communities by providing them with the tools a peer supports. Ypr also offers life-skills programming. The epic program serves people of all ages in treatment for drug and alcohol addiction. The phoenix program is designed for people of all ages with substance use disorder who are involved with the criminal justice system (drug courts, diversion courts) or other agencies that serve this population. We are proud of our outcomes proving that our participants are improving their dedication to their individualized recovery programs; are more engaged with a peer group that supports their recovery; and become better able to access resources that assist their recovery like…
$2,911,823 spent100% of program spendingIn 2025, Young People in Recovery (ypr) operated 52 chapters across 15 states and 16 program sites in 5 states, delivering a total of 3,539 chapter events and 348 program events, reaching 62,037 chapter participants and 2,893 program participants. Chapter programming included 1,909 all recovery meetings, 633 pro-social events, 251 workshops, and 690 advocacy events, alongside 48 national all recovery meetings. Program delivery maintained an average attendance of 8 participants per session, with leadership and empowerment identified as the most frequently facilitated and highest-attended module (43 sessions; 367 participants). Harm reduction efforts remained a critical component of service delivery, with 20,637 naloxone doses and 19,320 fentanyl test strips distributed. Programmatic activity continues to demonstrate sustained reach following significant expansion in prior years, supported by increased partnerships, expanded curriculum delivery, and improved data tracking systems.
$12,443 spent0% of program spendingAll other program service accomplishments
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,924,266.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $2.1M to $4.9M (+129%).
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: 2018 1% · 2021 60% · 2022 34% · 2023 66% · 2024 54% · 2025 46%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
91% of YOUNG PEOPLE IN RECOVERY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 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
Andrew Kiezulas
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020, and between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $127k → $541k.
12 of 40 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 46% 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 PEOPLE IN RECOVERY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 40 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
YOUNG PEOPLE IN RECOVERY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 37% 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
63% 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 PEOPLE IN RECOVERY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 79% · 2018 56% · 2019 27% · 2020 32% · 2021 37% · 2022 88% · 2023 38% — 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
30% of YOUNG PEOPLE IN RECOVERY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% 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 PEOPLE IN RECOVERY draws 69% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, across 11 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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 PEOPLE IN RECOVERY's funding base is broadening — from 5 funders to 10 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding YOUNG PEOPLE IN RECOVERY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $821k on record — $406k federal, $416k state.
- Department of Health and Human Services$406k
- (MM) PURCHASED CLIENT/PROGRAM SVCS$401k
- (HH) CONSULTANT SVCS (TO DEPTS)$15k
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 PEOPLE IN RECOVERY
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 Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 16 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for YOUNG PEOPLE IN RECOVERY: 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 YOUNG PEOPLE IN RECOVERY?
- YOUNG PEOPLE IN RECOVERY (Colorado) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,098,522 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($3,025,250). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does YOUNG PEOPLE IN RECOVERY have?
- IRS filings report 40 organizations giving $8,098,522 in grants to YOUNG PEOPLE IN RECOVERY, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of YOUNG PEOPLE IN RECOVERY?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $3,025,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like YOUNG PEOPLE IN RECOVERY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 40 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