Illinois · Nonprofit
YOUTH CROSSROADS INC
YOUTH CROSSROADS INC (Illinois) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,569,590 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC ($2,359,673). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.7M
- Funders on record
- 32
- Grants received
- $5.6M
- Net assets
- $2.7M
What Youth Crossroads Inc does
Mission
To act in the best interest of youth, guiding them through life's challenges and inspiring them to discover new opportunities for personal development, healthy relationships, and positive community involvement.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Youth Development - Provides middle school and high school students with opportunities to learn, grow, and have fun in a safe and supportive environment based in positive youth development concepts which place an emphasis on empowering youth through opportunities to develop new skills, create positive relationships with peers and caring adults, develop a sense of independence and self-esteem, give back to their community and explore their interests.
$1,173,585 spent35% of program spendingCounseling & Violence Prevention - Provides individual and family counseling, crisis intervention, and temporary shelter to runaway and locked-out youth, and an intensive 90-day program for 16-24-year-olds in Berwyn, Cicero, and surrounding communities with a history of violence, risk factors associated with violence, or association with the criminal justice system.
$1,138,360 spent34% of program spendingWorkforce - Designed to give high school students and young adults (ages 15-24) in Cicero, Berwyn, Stickney, Lyons, Summit, and Forest View the introductory training they need to get good paying jobs and develop meaningful careers. The program is designed to encourage youth to explore different career paths that reflect their passions and interests. Our workforce development program supports high school students and young adults regardless of their prior academic achievement or life experiences.
$429,803 spent13% of program spendingChildren and Family Services - Community-based collaborations that promote healthy pregnancies and the positive growth and development of all children and their parents/caregivers by assuring a well-coordinated, easily accessible, equitable, and just system of services and supports that engages parents as partners in making the system work for them.
$403,789 spent12% of program spendingCommunity Outreach - Building relationships with members of our communities and ensuring that everyone in the area has access to the resources and support they need to live healthy, happy lives. This includes a parent mentor program, food distributions, events and educational workshops.
$205,676 spent6% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,351,213.
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.
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 $2.2M to $3.2M (+48%).
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 41% · 2018 44% · 2019 48% · 2020 45% · 2021 47% · 2022 35% · 2023 53% · 2024 65% · 2025 66%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 17 funders, grant income rose $245k → $700k.
5 of 32 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 CROSSROADS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 29 of 32 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 CROSSROADS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
74% 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 CROSSROADS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 41% · 2020 47% · 2021 36% · 2022 38% · 2023 34% — 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
63% of YOUTH CROSSROADS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
99% of YOUTH CROSSROADS INC's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $163k 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.
Organizations like YOUTH CROSSROADS 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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 CROSSROADS 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 CROSSROADS INC?
- YOUTH CROSSROADS INC (Illinois) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,569,590 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC ($2,359,673). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does YOUTH CROSSROADS INC have?
- IRS filings report 32 organizations giving $5,569,590 in grants to YOUTH CROSSROADS INC, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of YOUTH CROSSROADS INC?
- UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,359,673 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like YOUTH CROSSROADS INC 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.
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 32 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