North Carolina · Nonprofit
YOUTH FOCUS INC
YOUTH FOCUS INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,051,299 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREATER GREENSBORO INC ($381,530). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.1M
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $1.5M
What Youth Focus Inc does
Mission
"helping youth achieve safety, security and success." providing residential programs to focus on the needs of the most vulnerable youth in guilford county; those who are at-risk, in crisis, have runaway, and/or are experiencing homelessness. Youth focus provides needed supportive housing solutions and trauma-informed counseling so youth receive the help they need today so they can have hope for the future.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Act together is an emergency and crisis shelter for male, female, and gender-nonconforming youth ages 11 to 17 who have run away, are experiencing a family crisis, are the victims of abuse or neglect, or are experiencing homelessness for other reasons. The maximum stay is 21 days, and referrals can be made 24 hours a day, seven days a week. 109 youth served.
$847,241 spent$564,114 earned by the program37% of program spendingThe hearth transitional living program provides supervised housing for male, female and gender non-conforming youth ages 18-21 for up to 18 months. During their stay in the program, all of a youth's living expenses are taken care of so they can focus on accomplishing goals that will ensure success in their future. Each youth sets goals specific to their situation to transition from the program to stable housing, obtain their high school diploma and/or college degree, receive needed vocational training to gain and maintain employment, develop permanent connections with caring adults, and improve their social-emotional well-being. During their stay in the program, they gain life skills such as conflict resolution, money management, meal planning and preparation, goal setting, and more. 18 youth served.
$456,538 spent20% of program spendingSafe haven provides trauma-informed mental health assessment and treatment, case management, peer support services and connection to mainstream benefits for youth experiencing homelessness or at imminent risk of homelessness. The program provides on site and telehealth clinical support from licensed therapists. The program also provides a safe place coordinator to run the outreach program connecting youth in the community to youth focus' services.
$423,500 spent18% of program spendingMy sister susan's house, hearth beyond
$590,784 spent$66,082 earned by the program25% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,318,063.
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 2019 to 2020, from $4.6M to $2.2M (−53%).
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 42% · 2018 38% · 2019 37% · 2020 63% · 2021 68% · 2022 63% · 2023 62% · 2024 62% · 2025 56%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
78% of YOUTH FOCUS INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 5 funders, grant income fell $226k → $38k.
6 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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: $403k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Alexander Children's Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money YOUTH FOCUS INC raised.
From the IRS filings of YOUTH FOCUS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 16 of 17 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 FOCUS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
83% 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 FOCUS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 48% · 2018 44% · 2019 40% · 2020 100% · 2021 98% · 2022 46% · 2023 53% — 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
40% of YOUTH FOCUS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 41% 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 FOCUS INC's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $76k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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 FOCUS INC 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 FOCUS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $8.7M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$7.5M
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$1.2M
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 FOCUS 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 North Carolina
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
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 3 related entities
- Alexander Youth Network · exempt
- The Relatives Inc · exempt
- Alexander Children's Foundation Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for YOUTH FOCUS 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 FOCUS INC?
- YOUTH FOCUS INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,051,299 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREATER GREENSBORO INC ($381,530). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does YOUTH FOCUS INC have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $1,051,299 in grants to YOUTH FOCUS INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of YOUTH FOCUS INC?
- UNITED WAY OF GREATER GREENSBORO INC is the largest funder on record, with $381,530 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like YOUTH FOCUS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 17 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