Florida · Nonprofit
YOUTH AND FAMILY ALTERNATIVES INC
YOUTH AND FAMILY ALTERNATIVES INC (Florida) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $42,402,964 to it, the largest being FLORIDA NETWORK OF YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INC ($37,164,673). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $28M
- Funders on record
- 20
- Grants received
- $42M
- Net assets
- $19M
What Youth and Family Alternatives Inc does
Mission
Youth and family alternatives, inc. Is committed to working in a collaborative partnership with families & communities to establish, maintain & enhance a nurturing & safe environment for children. Yfa is a provider of community counseling programs, substance abuse & mental health services, development, ownership & operation of low-income housing & broad array of community-based foster & adoption programs.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Youth crisis shelters programs include:the runaway, homeless and youth crisis shelters serve youth and their families promoting positive family interactions, resource referrals, and temporary residential care. Our goal is to help families ensure a healthy and safe environment in which to flourish; a nurturing, supportive environment free of drugs and alcohol abuse, of physical, emotional and sexual abuse. These programs assist youth ages 10 through 17 who are runaways or homeless; are "locked out or "kicked out" of their homes by parents or guardians; need short-term respite or crisis placement due to abuse and/or neglect; need emergency placement due to foster home placement disruption.
$5,902,901 spent24% of program spendingPrevention programs include:community counseling is a juvenile justice prevention program designed to assist families who have a child that is a runaway, truant, and/or ungovernable or at-risk of these behaviors. Services are aimed at preventing youth from entering the child welfare and/or the juvenile justice system by providing an array of services to strengthen the family. Services are available to families residing in pasco, hernando, citrus, sumter, polk, highlands, and hardee counties. Caring schools community creates a caring school environment characterized by kind and supportive relationships and collabortaion among students, staff, and parents. The model is consistent with research-based practices for increasing student achievement. By creating a caring school community, the program seeks to promote pro-social values, increase academic motivation and achievement, and prevent drug use, violence, and delinquency. Community partnership schools program aims to increase academic achievement, bridge the gap between school and home, increase student attendence, increase family engagement, and provide a safe, positive environment for students and families.
$1,343,458 spent5% of program spendingFoster care and adoption services programs include:foster care case management professional case management staff work with families and caregivers to access and coordinate services that are available and appropriate to the child's situation. Service needs for a child in the home with a parent may vary greatly from the needs of a child that has been removed from a parent or caregiver. Case managers coordinate the delivery of community services to families and caregivers of the children in care. Case management services are provided to "preserve intact families by strengthening and educating parents and caregivers; reunify children who have been removed from their family;" maintain a stable, safe placement for children who are in out-of-home care; and locate appropriate, safe, and permanent placements for children who cannot be returned to their parents or caregivers. Case managers assist parents with accessing a variety of community services that are available and appropriate to their situation. The goal is to ensure parents have the tools, services, and support they need to independently provide a safe, nurturing environment for their children. Adoption case management: the…
$15,894,478 spent64% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$1,618,295 spent$212,665 earned by the program7% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $24,759,132.
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 2022 to 2023, from $18M to $20M (+12%).
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: 2017 99% · 2018 98% · 2019 98% · 2020 98% · 2021 98% · 2022 97% · 2023 98% · 2024 97% · 2025 97%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of YOUTH AND FAMILY ALTERNATIVES INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Chief executive
Mark Wickham
Chief executive officer
Board chair
Nicholas Ottaviano
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 10 funders, grant income rose $4.1M → $4.7M.
4 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 YOUTH AND FAMILY ALTERNATIVES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 19 of 20 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
YOUTH AND FAMILY ALTERNATIVES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 88% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 YOUTH AND FAMILY ALTERNATIVES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 83% · 2018 85% · 2019 89% · 2020 86% · 2021 88% · 2022 87% · 2023 86% — 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
50% of YOUTH AND FAMILY ALTERNATIVES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% 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
100% of YOUTH AND FAMILY ALTERNATIVES INC's grant income comes from Florida funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $122k 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.
Against its field
YOUTH AND FAMILY ALTERNATIVES INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,297 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,297 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding YOUTH AND FAMILY ALTERNATIVES INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.4M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$3.4M
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 YOUTH AND FAMILY ALTERNATIVES 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 Florida
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
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Youth and Family Alternatives Foundation Inc · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds YOUTH AND FAMILY ALTERNATIVES INC?
- YOUTH AND FAMILY ALTERNATIVES INC (Florida) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $42,402,964 to it, the largest being FLORIDA NETWORK OF YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INC ($37,164,673). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does YOUTH AND FAMILY ALTERNATIVES INC have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $42,402,964 in grants to YOUTH AND FAMILY ALTERNATIVES INC, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of YOUTH AND FAMILY ALTERNATIVES INC?
- FLORIDA NETWORK OF YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INC is the largest funder on record, with $37,164,673 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like YOUTH AND FAMILY ALTERNATIVES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 20 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