Massachusetts · Nonprofit
YOUTHBUILD BOSTON INC
YOUTHBUILD BOSTON INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 51 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,597,741 to it, the largest being JPMORGAN CHASE FOUNDATION ($600,000). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.7M
- Funders on record
- 51
- Grants received
- $5.6M
- Net assets
- $1.2M
What Youthbuild Boston Inc does
Mission
Youthbuild boston's mission is to provide educational and skill training for low income youth; develop opportunities for employment; stabilize neighborhoods by enfranchising youth through employment and training activities; divert high risk youth in meaningful training opportunities, provide counseling and close supervision; and foster strong self esteem and self reliance.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Facilities maintenance - the only registered facilities maintenance technician apprenticeship in the state of massachusetts, our 18 month program for young people aged 18-25 consists of classroom instruction and on-the-job training that leads to a sustainable career as a facilities maintenance technician. Apprentices learn basic plumbing, electrical, and mechanical skills, cleaning and preventative maintenance, pest management, landscaping, and occupational health and safety while they are employed full time with an employer sponsor. Participants also earn 8 college credits that can be applied towards a bachelor's degree in facilities management, if they choose to continue their education beyond the program.
$1,647,704 spent$64,573 earned by the program88% of program spendingBuilding trade exploration program is a 6 to 9 month stipended program that serves 16-24 year old boston residents who lack a high school diploma and are interested in hands-on vocational experience. Students are engaged each week in math, science, english and language arts instruction, community service activities and field work in building trades like landscaping, painting, carpentry and property maintenance.
$105,669 spent6% of program spendingThe designery is an 8-10 week stipended out-of-school time enrichment program for high school juniors and seniors who are college bound and interested in studying some facet of engineering or design. Students learn technical terms, concepts and basic skills in the field and are then asked to solve a design problem for local businesses or non-profits using that knowledge and culminating in a product that is showcased at the end of the session.
$66,445 spent4% of program spendingThe pre-apprentice program is a 12 week stipended program that serves 18-24 year old boston residents with a high school diploma or g.e.d. And clean drug screen who want careers in the building trades. Students are trained to received stackable credentials and industry recognized certifications, hands-on construction experience and life skills and job readiness coaching in order to get accepted into various local unions and earn living wages.
$58,250 spent3% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,878,068.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $913k to $2.2M (+136%).
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 45% · 2018 34% · 2019 50% · 2020 45% · 2021 42% · 2022 29% · 2023 20% · 2024 22% · 2025 38%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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 9 funders to 21 funders, grant income rose $435k → $701k.
9 of 51 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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: $2.1M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Dudley Economic Empowerment Partners Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money YOUTHBUILD BOSTON INC raised.
From the IRS filings of YOUTHBUILD BOSTON INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 51 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
YOUTHBUILD BOSTON 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
40% 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 YOUTHBUILD BOSTON INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 30% · 2018 23% · 2019 26% · 2020 20% · 2021 16% · 2022 20% · 2023 20% — 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 YOUTHBUILD BOSTON INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
73% of YOUTHBUILD BOSTON INC's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $553k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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.
Government funding YOUTHBUILD BOSTON INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $5.1M on record — $1.8M federal, $3.3M state.
- Department of Labor$1.8M
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$2.6M
- (JJ) OPERATIONAL SERVICES$635k
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 YOUTHBUILD BOSTON 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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
63% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
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 1 related entity
- Dudley Economic Empowerment Partners Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for YOUTHBUILD BOSTON 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 YOUTHBUILD BOSTON INC?
- YOUTHBUILD BOSTON INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 51 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,597,741 to it, the largest being JPMORGAN CHASE FOUNDATION ($600,000). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does YOUTHBUILD BOSTON INC have?
- IRS filings report 51 organizations giving $5,597,741 in grants to YOUTHBUILD BOSTON INC, 28 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of YOUTHBUILD BOSTON INC?
- JPMORGAN CHASE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $600,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like YOUTHBUILD BOSTON INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 51 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