Tennessee · Nonprofit
YOUTH VILLAGES INC
YOUTH VILLAGES INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 269 organizations whose IRS filings report $275,057,875 to it, the largest being BLUE MERIDIAN PARTNERS INC ($123,900,000). 162 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $483M
- Funders on record
- 269
- Grants received
- $275M
- Net assets
- $304M
What Youth Villages Inc does
Mission
Youth villages helps children and families live successfully.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Youth villages has attained a successful discharge rate of 87%, and an overall satisfaction rate of 92% from families served. The most restrictive level of care offered by the organization is the residential treament programs which provide treatment in a secured residential setting to the most seriously troubled youth. All residential treatment allows for educational, social, and recreational opportunities. Children are accepted into the residential programs when they are unable to be successful in their homes or in other placements such as foster care. Residential campuses are located in georgia, tennessee, oregon, and massachusetts and serve children from many other states, including alabama, arkansas, florida, indiana, mississippi, new hampshire, north carolina, and the district of columbia. Payments for residential services are provided through contracts and/or through private insurance carriers as services are rendered.
$123,686,223 spent$131,755,400 earned by the program37% of program spendingThe organization's intercept program provides intensive in-home services to youth and their families to prevent the child from being placed out of the home. Intercept also works with families to remove barriers so that children can return home from placements such as hospitals, residential treatment centers, and foster care. Multisystemic therapy (mst) program also provides intensive treatment in the home utilizing the nationally recognized mst model. This model serves youth presenting serious anti-social behaviors, often involving the juvenile justice systems, who are at high risk of placement out of the home.
$130,571,861 spent$144,369,154 earned by the program39% of program spendingThe lifeset program helps young people aging out of state custody or other care arrangements successfully transition to independence. Participation in the lifeset program is voluntary. Specially trained lifeset specialtists meet at least once a week and more often when needed in a community setting wherever is most convienient for the participant. Specialists are available 24/7 to help the young adult. Young people typically participate in the program for 6 to 12 months.
$31,599,406 spent$32,432,759 earned by the program9% of program spendingOther program services include mentoring, crisis services, and adoption. Mentoring: volunteer mentors are recruited and trained to act as role models to children who do not have enough positive adult influences in their lives. Mentors listen, talk things through, and participate in a variety of activities with the children and youth. Crisis services provides evaluation and assessment for children in tennessee under age 18 who experience psychiatric emergencies. Counselors refer children to the most appropriate, least restrictive treatment option.adoption: seeks permanent homes for children with special emotional and behavioral needs.
$47,383,543 spent$45,511,090 earned by the program14% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $333,241,033.
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 2022 to 2023, from $250M to $289M (+15%).
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 2% · 2018 2% · 2019 2% · 2020 2% · 2021 3% · 2022 5% · 2023 5% · 2024 7% · 2025 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
16% of YOUTH VILLAGES INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (17% 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 53 funders to 118 funders, grant income rose $18M → $58M.
41 of 269 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% 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: $287M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Youth Villages Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money YOUTH VILLAGES INC raised.
From the IRS filings of YOUTH VILLAGES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 269 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 VILLAGES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
77% 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 VILLAGES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 31% · 2018 42% · 2019 53% · 2020 51% · 2021 56% · 2022 49% · 2023 43% — 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
53% of YOUTH VILLAGES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
YOUTH VILLAGES INC draws 76% of its grant income from funders outside Tennessee, across 29 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $81M arriving through sponsors registered in 21 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 VILLAGES INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 180 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 180 human services nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding YOUTH VILLAGES INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $220.7M on record.
- MA$211.5M
- OR$8.0M
- OK$495k
- DE$408k
- NJ$230k
- VT$26k
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 VILLAGES 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 Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% 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 2 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Youth Villages Foundation Inc · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds YOUTH VILLAGES INC?
- YOUTH VILLAGES INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 269 organizations whose IRS filings report $275,057,875 to it, the largest being BLUE MERIDIAN PARTNERS INC ($123,900,000). 162 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does YOUTH VILLAGES INC have?
- IRS filings report 269 organizations giving $275,057,875 in grants to YOUTH VILLAGES INC, 162 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of YOUTH VILLAGES INC?
- BLUE MERIDIAN PARTNERS INC is the largest funder on record, with $123,900,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like YOUTH VILLAGES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 269 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