Illinois · Nonprofit
YOUTH CONNECTION CHARTER SCHOOL
YOUTH CONNECTION CHARTER SCHOOL (Illinois) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,365,230 to it, the largest being CHICAGO COOK WORKFORCE PARTNERSHIP ($2,353,712). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $51M
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $2.4M
- Net assets
- $13M
What Youth Connection Charter School does
Mission
The mission of yccs is to advocate for, develop, and provide world class education for high school drop outs and post-secondary placements in partnership with the alternative high school community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Provided core and remedial educational services to 2,629 at-risk youth at 17 separate attendance centers, including classroom learning, online assessment and remedial learning, after school tutoring services, extended day programming, counseling, and supportive student services such as uniforms, books, transportation, and homeless support services.
$43,586,008 spent$41,424,288 earned by the program95% of program spendingProvided assessment, educational services, counseling, case management, and least restrictive environments to approximately 682 at-risk students requiring specialized services.
$1,529,281 spent$6,908,620 earned by the program3% of program spendingProvided job readiness, shadowing, and paid and unpaid internships to on average 310 in-school students. Also provided post secondary and dual enrollment support services to all students who met requisite academic standards.
$739,621 spent$271,378 earned by the program2% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $45,854,910.
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 2019 to 2020, from $14M to $18M (+28%).
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: 2024 2% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
4% of YOUTH CONNECTION CHARTER SCHOOL’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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
Sheila Venson
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $260k → $329k.
2 of 5 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 CONNECTION CHARTER SCHOOL’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 4 of 5 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 CONNECTION CHARTER SCHOOL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% of grant income and the top three 100%; 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 CONNECTION CHARTER SCHOOL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 96% · 2020 99% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
100% of YOUTH CONNECTION CHARTER SCHOOL's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7k 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 CONNECTION CHARTER SCHOOL is better cushioned than half of the 3,758 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like YOUTH CONNECTION CHARTER SCHOOL
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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for YOUTH CONNECTION CHARTER SCHOOL: 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 CONNECTION CHARTER SCHOOL?
- YOUTH CONNECTION CHARTER SCHOOL (Illinois) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,365,230 to it, the largest being CHICAGO COOK WORKFORCE PARTNERSHIP ($2,353,712). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does YOUTH CONNECTION CHARTER SCHOOL have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $2,365,230 in grants to YOUTH CONNECTION CHARTER SCHOOL, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of YOUTH CONNECTION CHARTER SCHOOL?
- CHICAGO COOK WORKFORCE PARTNERSHIP is the largest funder on record, with $2,353,712 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like YOUTH CONNECTION CHARTER SCHOOL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 5 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