Montana · Nonprofit
Youth Connections Foundation
Youth Connections Foundation (Montana) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,405 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF THE LEWIS AND CLARK AREA INC ($3,795). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $6k
- Net assets
- $526k
What Youth Connections Foundation does
Mission
Collaborate with leaders to build sustainable prevention systems that foster healthier, more resilient communities. Deliver high quality training and dedicated technical assistance to drive positive change and empower communities to create intentional prevention infrastructure
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
YC Magazine: The organization produced 3 magazines & distributed 7,000 copies per issue to families in our area to help families with resources & information to raise substance-free kids. It also highlights kids & adults doing noteworthy things in the community.
$27,014 spent$41,787 earned by the program73% of program spendingCoalition work: Held monthly meetings with statewide coalition developing plans on educating policy makers about the dangers of marijuana. Developed educational flyers. Engaged statewide partners. Assisted with two events with national speakers who made presentations. Provided technical assistance to partners on advocacy efforts.
$10,055 spent27% of program spendingTraining & Technical Assistance: During the year 10 roundtable discussions, 22 regional trainings, 12 peer support hours, 2 SAPST trainings, 2 ethics trainings, new prevention specialists received approximately 200 hours of onboarding each. Twelve newsletters were developed and distributed. Training calendar emails were mailed out weekly.
$85 earned by the program
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $37,069.
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 $324k to $567k (+75%).
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: 2019 55% · 2020 80% · 2021 79% · 2022 85% · 2023 92% · 2024 92% · 2025 94%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of Youth Connections Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Coleen Smith
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $4k → $22.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 Connections Foundation’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 Connections Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% 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
61% 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 Connections Foundation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 59% · 2019 100% · 2020 99% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 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.
Where its funders are
100% of Youth Connections Foundation's grant income comes from Montana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $110 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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 Connections Foundation runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding Youth Connections Foundation receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $125 on record.
- Contr&3rd Pty-Educ & Training$125
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 Connections Foundation
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 Montana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
4% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 Connections Foundation: 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 Connections Foundation?
- Youth Connections Foundation (Montana) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,405 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF THE LEWIS AND CLARK AREA INC ($3,795). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Youth Connections Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $6,405 in grants to Youth Connections Foundation, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Youth Connections Foundation?
- UNITED WAY OF THE LEWIS AND CLARK AREA INC is the largest funder on record, with $3,795 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Youth Connections Foundation find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Montana. 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 3 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