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YOUTH SERVICE BUREAU OF ST TAMMANY

YOUTH SERVICE BUREAU OF ST TAMMANY (Louisiana) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $611,524 to it, the largest being BAPTIST COMMUNITY MINISTRIES ($395,510). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$2.3M
Funders on record
13
Grants received
$612k
Net assets
$2.1M
7/13 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 8%
01What it does

What Youth Service Bureau of St Tammany does

Mission

To provide advocacy, counseling, education and intervention for at-risk youth and their families, helping them reach their full potential.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Court appointed special advocates (casa). Volunteers are trained volunteers who help judges find safe and permanent homes for abused and neglected children in state custody. Casa volunteers focus on one child or sibling group at a time and represent the best interest of the child. Volunteer advocates offer judges critical information to ensure that each child's rights and needs are being attended to while in foster care. During the fiscal year 2023-2024, 226 children were served by 113 casa volunteers through youth service bureau, and 15 new casa volunteers were trained and sworn-in.

    $498,814 spent
    28% of program spending
  2. Crossroads is a juvenile delinquency intervention program that offers non-violent offenders the opportunity to choose a new direction while holding them accountable for their actions. Case managers leverage a balanced and restorative justice model to encourage responsibility while maintaining a focus on victims and families. There were 737 clients assisted during the 2023-2024 fiscal year. Case managers oversee community service requirements and victim restitution where appropriate. Clients are supported through group classes that teach internet safety, law related education, anger management, and drivers' improvement. Clients are further supported through parental training and referrals for counseling when appropriate.

    $283,875 spent$38,951 earned by the program
    16% of program spending
  3. Families in need of services (fins) is a delinquency prevention program that focuses on helping youth and families to remedy self-destructive behavior through education and family counseling. There were 210 clients assisted through fins during the 2023-2024 fiscal year. Fins case managers encourage positive parental involvement and improves skills to counter ungovernable behavior.

    $278,489 spent
    16% of program spending
  4. Options is a clinical substance abuse treatment program that provides family focused licensed outpatient treatment for adolescents who are experiencing problems with alcohol and or drugs. Assessment and treatment was provided for 403 clients during the 2023-2024 fiscal year.

    $420,674 spent$48,363 earned by the program
    24% of program spending
  5. Truancy assessment and service center (tasc) is a truancy reduction program that provides resources and support to children and their families for children from the grades of kindergarten through 5th grade. Truancy intervention was provided for 604 students during fiscal year 2023-2024.

    $300,167 spent
    17% of program spending

The 5 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,782,019.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.7M) Expenses 100 ($1.7M) Net assets 100 ($1.9M)2018 Revenue 92 ($1.6M) Expenses 103 ($1.7M) Net assets 99 ($1.9M)2019 Revenue 97 ($1.6M) Expenses 100 ($1.6M) Net assets 99 ($1.9M)2020 Revenue 87 ($1.5M) Expenses 103 ($1.7M) Net assets 88 ($1.7M)2021 Revenue 118 ($2.0M) Expenses 104 ($1.7M) Net assets 103 ($2.0M)2022 Revenue 118 ($2.0M) Expenses 114 ($1.9M) Net assets 109 ($2.1M)2023 Revenue 94 ($1.6M) Expenses 113 ($1.9M) Net assets 95 ($1.9M)2024 Revenue 132 ($2.3M) Expenses 131 ($2.2M) Net assets 100 ($2.0M)2025 Revenue 134 ($2.3M) Expenses 131 ($2.2M) Net assets 107 ($2.1M)
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Revenue (134)Expenses (131)Net assets (107)

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 $2.0M to $2.3M (+15%).

$2.1M
$2.0M
$2.0M
$2.0M
$2.3M
$2.2M
$1.9M
$2.0M
$2.2M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2018 65% · 2019 65% · 2020 76% · 2021 50% · 2022 57% · 2023 73% · 2024 76% · 2025 77%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$55k
’17
−$125k
’18
$3k
’19
−$218k
’20
$296k
’21
$126k
’22
−$273k
’23
$100k
’24
$133k
’25
3.1
months of
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

Cleveland Wester

President/CEO

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.

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Listed151514131412121718
Joined·+4+5+2+4+5+0+6+6
No longer listed·46337015
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $3k → $110k.

3 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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: $1.0M from 4 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest United Way of Southeast Louisiana). These are real filings, and they are not money YOUTH SERVICE BUREAU OF ST TAMMANY raised.

From the IRS filings of YOUTH SERVICE BUREAU OF ST TAMMANY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 12 of 13 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 SERVICE BUREAU OF ST TAMMANY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 65% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

65%
largest funder
88%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 94% · 2018 82% · 2019 67% · 2020 41% · 2021 73% · 2022 70% · 2023 95% — broadly stable.

“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

67% of YOUTH SERVICE BUREAU OF ST TAMMANY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

98% of YOUTH SERVICE BUREAU OF ST TAMMANY's grant income comes from Louisiana funders.

WA
LA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’23
Louisiana out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $51k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like YOUTH SERVICE BUREAU OF ST TAMMANY

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 Louisiana

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

84% of spending goes to programs.

Program 84%Management 14%Fundraising 3%

Governance

17
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

94%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

LA

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Questions and answers

Who funds YOUTH SERVICE BUREAU OF ST TAMMANY?
YOUTH SERVICE BUREAU OF ST TAMMANY (Louisiana) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $611,524 to it, the largest being BAPTIST COMMUNITY MINISTRIES ($395,510). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does YOUTH SERVICE BUREAU OF ST TAMMANY have?
IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $611,524 in grants to YOUTH SERVICE BUREAU OF ST TAMMANY, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of YOUTH SERVICE BUREAU OF ST TAMMANY?
BAPTIST COMMUNITY MINISTRIES is the largest funder on record, with $395,510 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like YOUTH SERVICE BUREAU OF ST TAMMANY find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Louisiana. 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 13 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