New Jersey · Nonprofit
YOUTH CONSULTATION SERVICE INC
YOUTH CONSULTATION SERVICE INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,905,526 to it, the largest being SOUTH WARD ALLIANCE ($789,331). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $77M
- Funders on record
- 27
- Grants received
- $2.9M
- Net assets
- $21M
What Youth Consultation Service Inc does
Mission
To partner with at- risk and special needs children, youth and young adults to build happier, healthier, more hopeful lives within families and communities.the soul of ycs lies in its ability to always see the possibilities in each child, to believe that all children are born good and hold within a recoverable, vibrant spirit. Whether a child has suffered at the hands of abuse of neglect or simply has special needs that are not being met, ycs offers hope for a promising future to over 3,000 of new jersey's most vulnerable children. The agency's mission is to partner with each child to build a healthy, happy, productive life within families and communities. Ycs seeks to fulfull this mission through nearly 100 programs located throughout the state - ranging from foster care and residential safe havens, to special education and autism schools, to family preservation and mentoring programs. Ycs is a recognized 501(c)(3) public charity.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Ycs residential programs provide a wide range of support for clients from toddler to adult. Clients under 21 years old reside in youth programs funded by dcf. Over 20 such residential facililities are located throughout the state. Services run the range from emergency crisis placement to intermediate and long term. The goal of all therapeutic treatments is to help the child overcome the physical and emotional obstacles to reach their full potential and lead happy productive lives. Each treatment plan is tailored to the individual and delivered in a loving, caring manner. The ycs residential programs treat clients with developmental disabilities. Clients are 21 years or older with the program funding coming from ddd and medicaid. The ddd clients have permanent placement in these programs.residences are located in stand alone homes throughout the state. Services are provided in a loving, family atmosphere.therapeutic services include behavioral and occupational therapy.recreational funds are maintained on behalf of each client and there are planned social activities. Like the youth programs, the desired outcome is to allow each individual to reach their full potential and lead happy…
$43,063,972 spent$57,546,365 earned by the program63% of program spendingYcs schools provide learning opportunities for children with mental, emotional, behavioral, and family-related obstacles. The sawtelle school program offers a nurturing learning environment for children with autism. Each student has an individualized learning program with a low student to teacher ratio to maximize the learning experience. The george washington school is for students that have other emotional and behavioral related issues. Many of these students do not live with their families and reside in the ycs residential programs. The educational curriculum takes this into account. There are individualized educational programs, low student to teach ratios, and the utilization of teachers aides where required to fill the role typically filled by a parent to help enforce the learning. Each student is treated like family because in most cases there is no other family. The goal of both schools is to provide each student with an appropriate education to reach his or her full potential.
$8,122,736 spent$10,558,841 earned by the program12% of program spendingYcs community based programs provide a wide range of outpatient clinical services for children, adolescents, and young adults and their families. Mental health outpatient clinics provide care for clients with mental health issues. Finally, support programs are provided under the guidance of nurses to help first time mothers without a traditional support system make the transition to motherhood.
$4,467,946 spent$2,145,498 earned by the program7% of program spendingOther community based and outpatient services.
$12,601,107 spent18% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $68,255,761.
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 2022 to 2023, from $32M to $41M (+29%).
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 19% · 2018 18% · 2019 7% · 2020 6% · 2021 6% · 2022 18% · 2023 6% · 2024 7% · 2025 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
9% of YOUTH CONSULTATION SERVICE INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Tara Augustine
President/CEO
Board chair
Catherine Tamburello
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $239k → $255k.
4 of 27 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $655k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Ycs Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money YOUTH CONSULTATION SERVICE INC raised.
From the IRS filings of YOUTH CONSULTATION SERVICE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 25 of 27 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 CONSULTATION SERVICE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% 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
42% 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 CONSULTATION SERVICE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 73% · 2018 56% · 2019 67% · 2020 48% · 2021 43% · 2022 31% · 2023 20% — 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
60% of YOUTH CONSULTATION SERVICE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
77% of YOUTH CONSULTATION SERVICE INC's grant income comes from New Jersey funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $224k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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 CONSULTATION SERVICE INC's funding base is broadening — from 4 funders to 16 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,297 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding YOUTH CONSULTATION SERVICE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $72.8M on record.
- GRANT IN AID$45.8M
- FEDERAL$17.9M
- DEDICATED$5.3M
- DIRECT STATE SERVICES - NON-SALARY$3.7M
- TRUST FUND$92k
- STATE AID$10k
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 CONSULTATION SERVICE 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 New Jersey
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Ycs Foundation · exempt
- Ycs System Inc · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for YOUTH CONSULTATION SERVICE 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 CONSULTATION SERVICE INC?
- YOUTH CONSULTATION SERVICE INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,905,526 to it, the largest being SOUTH WARD ALLIANCE ($789,331). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does YOUTH CONSULTATION SERVICE INC have?
- IRS filings report 27 organizations giving $2,905,526 in grants to YOUTH CONSULTATION SERVICE INC, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of YOUTH CONSULTATION SERVICE INC?
- SOUTH WARD ALLIANCE is the largest funder on record, with $789,331 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like YOUTH CONSULTATION SERVICE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. 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 27 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