Indiana · Nonprofit
YOUTH CONNECTIONS INC
YOUTH CONNECTIONS INC (Indiana) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $291,558 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL INDIANA INC ($140,849). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2021
- $247k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $292k
- Net assets
- $-107880
What Youth Connections Inc does
Mission
The mission of youth connections is to serve youth through crisis intervention, community education and mentoring to foster positive relations and self worth. Youth connections' community impact is felt throughout johnson and morgan counties, indiana. The work of the organization unfolds through the following 6 programs: project safe place, the children's visitation center, custody evaluations, families in transition, jump start, and the host homes program. Youth connections started serving youth in 1976 as a 501(c)(3) not for profit youth shelter. Since then, services have remained focused on all youth and have evolved to meet emerging gaps in the community. As a youth services bureau, the organization offers a variety of programs based on the following four core roles - delinquency prevention, advocacy, community education, and information and referral.
As stated on its FY2021 Form 990.
Program
The families in transition program provides practical information on dealing with the effects of divorce on children and how to work cooperatively to meet the needs of children. The fit program gives fathers and mothers tools to answer these questions and build stronger relationships with their children. Children and parents learn how to have more fun when they spend time together. Children learn that they can share their worries and concerns with their parents. Parents make rules clearer and misbehaviors decrease.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.
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 2020 to 2021, from $68k to $113k (+66%).
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 7% · 2018 7% · 2020 33% · 2021 35%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
79% of YOUTH CONNECTIONS INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 4 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $58k → $18.
3 of 8 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.
From the IRS filings of YOUTH CONNECTIONS 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 CONNECTIONS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
63% 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 INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 38% · 2018 59% · 2019 32% · 2020 43% · 2021 74% · 2022 89% · 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
57% of YOUTH CONNECTIONS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 75% 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
100% of YOUTH CONNECTIONS INC's grant income comes from Indiana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $43k 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 CONNECTIONS INC's revenue fell 26% between 2017 and 2021.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 18,396 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2021
Organizations like YOUTH CONNECTIONS 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 Indiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
67% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
87%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for YOUTH CONNECTIONS 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 CONNECTIONS INC?
- YOUTH CONNECTIONS INC (Indiana) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $291,558 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL INDIANA INC ($140,849). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does YOUTH CONNECTIONS INC have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $291,558 in grants to YOUTH CONNECTIONS INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of YOUTH CONNECTIONS INC?
- UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL INDIANA INC is the largest funder on record, with $140,849 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like YOUTH CONNECTIONS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. 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 FY2021 (financials across 2017–2021), 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing