New York · Nonprofit
YOUTH REPRESENT INC
YOUTH REPRESENT INC (New York) receives grants from 65 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,549,767 to it, the largest being FIVE TOGETHER FOUNDATION ($1,065,000). 38 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.2M
- Funders on record
- 65
- Grants received
- $9.5M
- Net assets
- $2.6M
What Youth Represent Inc does
Mission
Youth represent uses legal services, policy advocacy, peer education, and other tools to build power and opportunity for black, latine, and other youth of color who the criminal legal system and other systems of oppression harm the most. We envision a world where the racist legal system has been dismantled and biack, latine, indigenous, and other youth of color have the freedom and power to live their full lives.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Community lawyering model: our flagship community-lawyering model combines direct legal representation in civil and criminal matters, know your rights workshops, and technical assistance for partner organization staff. Partnering with a wide variety of nyc community organizations, we offer on-site legal services for clients facing employment discrimination, eviction, school suspension, summonses, and other criminal and civil legal issues. We partner with more than 50 community based organizations, to deliver services to thousands of clients across new york.
$1,391,105 spent$348,635 earned by the program66% of program spendingPolicy reform: we work at the state and city level to push for policies that divest from systems that arrest, detain, and imprison black and latine youth, and invest in the kinds of programs and resources that make young people and communities truly safe. We were one of the lead organizations in the successful campaign to raise the age of criminal responsibility to 18 in new york, and we currently lead the campaign for the youth justice & opportunities act (yj&o), a comprehensive agenda to expand alternatives to incarceration and record sealing for youth not covered by raise the age. Through our city dreamers program, we provide advocacy training and support for young people and connect them with leadership and civic engagement opportunities so they can be agents for change in their communities.
$612,890 spent29% of program spendingStrategic litigation: in partnership with law firms and organizations we pursue individual and class action lawsuits against employers who illegally discriminate against applicants with criminal histories. These lawsuits aim to procure financial settlements and systemic change in hiring practices, among other forms of relief, for system-affected clients. Additionally, our strategic litigation practice uses laws that our policy team has championed as a mechanism for social changelaws that aim to counter discriminatory practices that have historically oppressed under-resourced communities of color. To date, youth represent's strategic litigation has secured over $8 million in settlement funds, providing support for over 24,000 individuals wrongly discriminated against for having system involvement and giving many the opportunity for employment.
$99,118 spent5% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,103,113.
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 2020 to 2021, from $1.6M to $2.6M (+64%).
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 22% · 2018 13% · 2019 12% · 2020 18% · 2021 20% · 2022 31% · 2023 20% · 2024 22% · 2025 18%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
87% of YOUTH REPRESENT INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (93% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Michael Pope
Executive director (thru 9/25)
Board chair
Jeanne Byrd-Adams
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 29 funders, grant income rose $327k → $1.6M.
15 of 65 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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 REPRESENT INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 65 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 REPRESENT INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 11% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
29% 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 REPRESENT INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 23% · 2018 28% · 2019 18% · 2020 13% · 2021 15% · 2022 14% · 2023 16% — 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
46% of YOUTH REPRESENT INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
62% of YOUTH REPRESENT INC's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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 REPRESENT INC's funding base is broadening — from 12 funders to 29 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 852 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like YOUTH REPRESENT 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 York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
66% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
88%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for YOUTH REPRESENT 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 REPRESENT INC?
- YOUTH REPRESENT INC (New York) receives grants from 65 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,549,767 to it, the largest being FIVE TOGETHER FOUNDATION ($1,065,000). 38 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does YOUTH REPRESENT INC have?
- IRS filings report 65 organizations giving $9,549,767 in grants to YOUTH REPRESENT INC, 38 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of YOUTH REPRESENT INC?
- FIVE TOGETHER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,065,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like YOUTH REPRESENT INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 65 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