New York · Nonprofit
YOUTH COMMUNICATION NY CENTER INC
YOUTH COMMUNICATION NY CENTER INC (New York) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,212,688 to it, the largest being PINKERTON FOUNDATION ($730,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 26
- Grants received
- $2.2M
- Net assets
- $1.0M
What Youth Communication Ny Center Inc does
Mission
Youth communication elevates teen voices to create real change. Through the power of true stories, written by youth who have been systemically marginalized, we create more supportive and successful learning communities. Youth communication's vision is to create a more empathic world for and with our young people so they feel represented, heard, and supported to achieve their dreams. Youth communication promotes the social-emotional development and academic achievement of adolescents, especially youth of color from lower-income households who face educational and other inequities. Our professional development programs and story-based curricula help educators create settings which bolster teens' social-emotional learning (sel) and literacy skills. Extensive research links sel skills to increased academic performance, improved mental health, strengthened social skills, and responsible decision making. We base these activities on a youth development framework we have cultivated since 1980,
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Writing program: we base our professional development programs (see section 4b below) on autobiographical stories by teens in our writing and youth development program. Each year, our instructors work intensively with 50 teens (including 15 in foster care) as they write about personal experiences and social issues. Most writers are young people of color and/or are from lower income households. Last year writers produced stories on mental health racial justice, inequality, race, friendship, grief, gender, sexuality, foster care, families, and immigration. More than 22,000 teachers, foster care staff, advocates, parents, and other significant adults in teens' lives are reached through the stories. These stories offered educators insights into the lives, strengths, struggles, and aspirations of the youth they teach and counsel. These insights helped educators to build more supportive learning settings and to improve staff-youth relationships.
$501,205 spentof which $29,144 as grants35% of program spendingProfessional development: we train educators to use story-based curricula to strengthen youths' social-emotional learning skills (sel). These stories-developed by teens in our writing program- highlight sel skills defined by the collaborative for academic, social and emotional learning: self-awareness, social awareness, responsible decision-making, self- management, and relationship management. Our training enables them to create settings that foster engagement, nurture positive staff-youth relations, and make all students feel welcomed and valued. Staff also improve their facilitation skills: leading open-ended discussions, drawing out reluctant participants, active listening, etc. Last year, we trained over 1700 educators at schools, afterschool programs, foster care agencies, and other organizations. They worked with more than 25,000 youth. We launched our culturally responsive training program, mirrors and windows. It provides unique professional development, centered on youth voices, and concrete strategies to youth-facing adults to help them build supportive classrooms.
$915,178 spent65% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,416,383.
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 2024 to 2025, from $2.3M to $1.4M (−40%).
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.
78% of YOUTH COMMUNICATION NY CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Leah Modigliani
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $84k → $458k.
8 of 26 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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 COMMUNICATION NY CENTER 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 COMMUNICATION NY CENTER INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 33% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 59% · 2018 73% · 2019 48% · 2020 45% · 2021 44% · 2022 31% · 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
58% of YOUTH COMMUNICATION NY CENTER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
64% of YOUTH COMMUNICATION NY CENTER 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. $464k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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 COMMUNICATION NY CENTER INC is better cushioned than half of the 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like YOUTH COMMUNICATION NY CENTER INC
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In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
60%
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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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for YOUTH COMMUNICATION NY CENTER 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 COMMUNICATION NY CENTER INC?
- YOUTH COMMUNICATION NY CENTER INC (New York) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,212,688 to it, the largest being PINKERTON FOUNDATION ($730,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does YOUTH COMMUNICATION NY CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 26 organizations giving $2,212,688 in grants to YOUTH COMMUNICATION NY CENTER INC, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of YOUTH COMMUNICATION NY CENTER INC?
- PINKERTON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $730,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like YOUTH COMMUNICATION NY CENTER 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 2017–2025), 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing