Iowa · Nonprofit
YOUTH AND SHELTER SERVICES INC
YOUTH AND SHELTER SERVICES INC (Iowa) receives grants from 75 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,065,374 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL IOWA ($1,979,541). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $38M
- Funders on record
- 75
- Grants received
- $15M
- Net assets
- $44M
What Youth and Shelter Services Inc does
Mission
The organization exists to provide prevention, education, treatment and residential services to youth and families; to advocate on their behalf; and to help them heal, grow and be self sufficient, responsible and contributing members of society.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The organizations residential treatment services in substance abuse treatment that is provided to youth of both genders between the ages of 12-18 that need more intensive treatment than outpatient services alone can provide.
$9,695,216 spent44% of program spendingTransitional services provides young adults ages 18-23 support to help them achieve self-sufficiency through housing, life skills, and financial assistance.
$9,254,526 spentof which $1,474,405 as grants$6,815,865 earned by the program42% of program spendingThe organization has offices in multiple locations that have licenseed individual, family, and group interventions in both the office, the home and in school settings. The organization can evaluate and treat young children, as well as young adults, through specialized and conventional interventions.
$3,084,842 spent14% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $22,034,584.
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 $21M to $33M (+59%).
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 51% · 2018 55% · 2019 52% · 2020 44% · 2021 50% · 2022 49% · 2023 35% · 2024 38% · 2025 32%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
81% of YOUTH AND SHELTER SERVICES INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Jolly Laura
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 20 funders to 25 funders, grant income rose $1.3M → $3.5M.
13 of 75 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $31M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Youth and Shelter Services Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money YOUTH AND SHELTER SERVICES INC raised.
From the IRS filings of YOUTH AND SHELTER SERVICES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 75 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 SHELTER SERVICES INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 13% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
65% 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 SHELTER SERVICES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 23% · 2018 21% · 2019 51% · 2020 29% · 2021 33% · 2022 29% · 2023 29% — 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
41% of YOUTH AND SHELTER SERVICES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% 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
96% of YOUTH AND SHELTER SERVICES INC's grant income comes from Iowa funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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 SHELTER SERVICES INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,396 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,396 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding YOUTH AND SHELTER SERVICES INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $14.0M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$7.0M
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$6.2M
- Department of Justice$495k
- Department of Agriculture$280k
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 SHELTER SERVICES 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 Iowa
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% 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
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Youth and Shelter Services Foundation · exempt
- H & O Mission Properties · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for YOUTH AND SHELTER SERVICES INC: 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 YOUTH AND SHELTER SERVICES INC?
- YOUTH AND SHELTER SERVICES INC (Iowa) receives grants from 75 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,065,374 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL IOWA ($1,979,541). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does YOUTH AND SHELTER SERVICES INC have?
- IRS filings report 75 organizations giving $15,065,374 in grants to YOUTH AND SHELTER SERVICES INC, 35 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of YOUTH AND SHELTER SERVICES INC?
- UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL IOWA is the largest funder on record, with $1,979,541 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like YOUTH AND SHELTER SERVICES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Iowa. 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 75 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing