Arizona · Nonprofit
YOUTH ON THEIR OWN
YOUTH ON THEIR OWN (Arizona) receives grants from 175 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,485,904 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHERN ARIZONA ($972,083). 99 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $8.0M
- Funders on record
- 175
- Grants received
- $9.5M
- Net assets
- $23M
What Youth on Their Own does
Mission
Youth on Their Own supports the high school graduation and continued success of youth experiencing homelessness in pima county. Our vision is that young people on their own are empowered and engaged community members. Yoto primarily serves youth in grades 6-12 who attend school in pima county, are unaccompanied students who are not living with their biological or adoptive parents or legal guardians, and are on their own through no choice of their own (forced to leave home). Yoto youth are experiencing homelessness (e.g., couch hopping, living in car, rv, or any place not meant for long-term habitation, etc.) or are self-supporting students who pay for their own housing and must provide all their own basic needs. Yoto's chief focus is education, specifically a high school diploma, as a tool to disrupt the cycle of poverty. Graduation rates for youth experiencing homelessness are extremely low due to the stress of managing their daily circumstances. Over 5,600 homeless k-12 students have
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The mission of yoto is to support the high school graduation and continued success of youth experiencing homelessness in pima county. Services are designed to help meet youth's basic needs so they can focus less on their housing instability or food insecurity and more on in-school success. Guidance counselors and social workers within 100+ area schools volunteer their time to serve as "yoto liaisons" to identify potential homeless students, help them enroll in yoto, and provide additional support to them throughout the year. Services available to yoto program participants at no cost, include: o academic stipends (up to 350/month) based on level of need and school attendance; flexible stipends (e.g., basic needs funding); graduation awards; scholarships. O basic needs material support (e.g., hygiene supplies, shelf-stable food, school supplies, etc.) via the yoto mini-mall and other personal needs (e.g., dental cleanings, haircut vouchers, etc.). O transportation assistance (e.g., uber health rides and taxi fares). O ongoing academic support, including college and career guidance. O referrals to community partners for housing, healthcare, and other unmet needs. By providing access…
$3,909,173 spentof which $1,688,131 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,909,173.
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 $6.2M to $12M (+90%).
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 6% · 2018 6% · 2019 4% · 2020 2% · 2021 14% · 2022 11% · 2023 6% · 2024 5% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
91% of YOUTH ON THEIR OWN’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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
Elizabeth Slater
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 40 funders to 69 funders, grant income rose $573k → $2.1M.
20 of 175 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% 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 ON THEIR OWN’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 175 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 ON THEIR OWN has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 10% of grant income, and it takes 10 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 10 funders to its left
55% 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 ON THEIR OWN.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 27% · 2018 17% · 2019 16% · 2020 8% · 2021 20% · 2022 9% · 2023 37% — 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
42% of YOUTH ON THEIR OWN's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
75% of YOUTH ON THEIR OWN's grant income comes from Arizona funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 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 ON THEIR OWN runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 7,349 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like YOUTH ON THEIR OWN
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 Arizona
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for YOUTH ON THEIR OWN: 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 ON THEIR OWN?
- YOUTH ON THEIR OWN (Arizona) receives grants from 175 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,485,904 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHERN ARIZONA ($972,083). 99 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does YOUTH ON THEIR OWN have?
- IRS filings report 175 organizations giving $9,485,904 in grants to YOUTH ON THEIR OWN, 99 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of YOUTH ON THEIR OWN?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHERN ARIZONA is the largest funder on record, with $972,083 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like YOUTH ON THEIR OWN find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arizona. 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 175 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