Vermont · Nonprofit
YOUTH CATALYTICS INC
YOUTH CATALYTICS INC (Vermont) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $198,726 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($100,600). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2026
- $2k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $199k
- Net assets
- $0
What Youth Catalytics Inc does
Mission
Youth catalytics's mission is to advance and inspire the youth services sector by originating, gathering, and disseminating new knowledge, innovative practices, and thought leadership. Youth catalytics strengthens public and private agencies, coalitions, schools, and communities across the country through organizational planning and sustainability, professional development, research and program evaluation.
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.
Program
On its FY2026 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
The organization ceased operations on april 30th 2026.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
Provided technical assistance and evaluation to national center on safe supportive learning environments (ncssle) for the us department of education. Provided technical training and assistance to umass donahue institute's applied research and program evaluation department for the mass department of education. Provided guidance and leadership support focused on research approach, instrument development, data collection plans and contextualization of research findings. Provided technical training and assistance to umass donahue institute's program management and fiscal operations (pmfo) department. Including writing and editing training modules. These programs ended in april 2026.
$79,239 spent$1,565 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2026 Form 990. Program spending in total: $79,239.
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 2025 to 2026, from $102k to $0 (−100%).
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 54% · 2021 30%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
0% of YOUTH CATALYTICS INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 10 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
Sheila Celata
Board chair
As listed on its FY2026 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $70k → $2k.
2 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 51% 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 CATALYTICS 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
YOUTH CATALYTICS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
77% 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 CATALYTICS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 57% · 2018 100% · 2019 56% · 2020 88% · 2021 88% · 2022 71% · 2023 100% — 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
33% of YOUTH CATALYTICS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 38% 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
51% of YOUTH CATALYTICS INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $98k that is directly attributable, 95% of it comes from funders outside Vermont, across 5 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $101k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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 CATALYTICS INC's revenue fell 100% between 2017 and 2026.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 413 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2026
Government funding YOUTH CATALYTICS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $116k on record.
- VT$109k
- MA$7k
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 CATALYTICS 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 Vermont
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for YOUTH CATALYTICS 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 CATALYTICS INC?
- YOUTH CATALYTICS INC (Vermont) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $198,726 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($100,600). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does YOUTH CATALYTICS INC have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $198,726 in grants to YOUTH CATALYTICS INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of YOUTH CATALYTICS INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $100,600 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like YOUTH CATALYTICS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Vermont. 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 FY2026 (financials across 2017–2026), and the filings of 8 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