Indiana · Nonprofit
YOUTH FIRST
YOUTH FIRST (Indiana) receives grants from 77 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,728,839 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($1,281,000). 55 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $9.5M
- Funders on record
- 77
- Grants received
- $11M
- Net assets
- $7.3M
What Youth First does
Mission
Youth First strengthens youth and families by delivering evidence-based, school-based prevention and early intervention programs that address youth mental health needs, promote healthy behaviors, prevent substance use, and support student success across southwestern indiana.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Youth First operates a comprehensive student assistance program that transforms school systems into mental health safety nets, bypassing community waitlists and removing barriers to care. We achieve this by embedding highly trained, master's-level mental health professionals directly within school buildings to deliver an evidence-based, multi-tiered system of support. During the 2024 to 2025 academic year, Youth First partnered with 119 public, private, and charter schools across 14 indiana counties (daviess, dubois, gibson, greene, knox, lawrence, martin, morgan, orange, perry, posey, spencer, vanderburgh, and warrick). This footprint ensured that 53,510 k-12 students had daily access to professional mental health support. At the universal prevention level, Youth First provides school-wide educational presentations designed to build foundational coping skills and resilience. For students requiring selective intervention, our mental health professionals lead evidence-based small groups that provide targeted support to youth with an elevated risk of substance misuse while building social and communication skills. Participants demonstrate measurable outcomes, including reduced binge…
$8,550,118 spent$3,635,791 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $8,550,118.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 $5.5M to $7.2M (+32%).
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 41% · 2020 35% · 2021 33% · 2022 27% · 2023 29% · 2024 26% · 2025 28%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
57% of YOUTH FIRST’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 7 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.
Board chair
Dan Hoefling
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 40 funders, grant income rose $294k → $2.7M.
20 of 77 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% 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 FIRST’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 77 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 FIRST has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 12% of grant income, and it takes 8 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 8 funders to its left
45% 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 FIRST.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 69% · 2018 35% · 2019 23% · 2020 24% · 2021 26% · 2022 11% · 2023 37% — 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 FIRST's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% 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
69% of YOUTH FIRST's grant income comes from Indiana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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 FIRST is better cushioned than half of the 5,002 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,002 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding YOUTH FIRST receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $757k on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$757k
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 FIRST
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
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 FIRST: 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 FIRST?
- YOUTH FIRST (Indiana) receives grants from 77 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,728,839 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($1,281,000). 55 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does YOUTH FIRST have?
- IRS filings report 77 organizations giving $10,728,839 in grants to YOUTH FIRST, 55 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of YOUTH FIRST?
- LILLY ENDOWMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,281,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like YOUTH FIRST 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 FY2025 (financials across 2019–2025), and the filings of 77 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing