New Jersey · Nonprofit
YouthBuild Newark Inc
YouthBuild Newark Inc (New Jersey) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,731,957 to it, the largest being THE PRUDENTIAL FOUNDATION ($8,200,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.0M
- Funders on record
- 24
- Grants received
- $16M
- Net assets
- $5.5M
What YouthBuild Newark Inc does
Mission
To harness the intelligence and positive energy of low-income young people to rebuild their community and their lives.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT - Services are available to youth aged 16-24. Programmatic objectives include: re-engaging students who have dropped out of school and/or who's level of disengagement make them highly at-risk for academic and social failure, providing workforce skills and vocational training, and prioritizing community service as a means to achieve community revitalization.
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$1,223,099 spent$1,930,212 earned by the program25% of program spendingYouthbuild Newark offers young people - ages 16-24 years old - an opportunity to earn a HSE (high school equivalency diploma) while gaining on the job training for in demand careers. Through the YouthBuild process young people can chart a new path to success surrounded by a supportive community committed to developing skilled leaders for the local workforce. YouthBuild core elements include leadership development, construction and other career pathways, support services, alumni success, and education.
$509,965 spent11% of program spendingCONSTRUCTION AND OTHER CAREER PATHWAY - YouthBuild construction program is designed to help young people complete their education, learn job skills, develop leadership abilities, and contribute to their communities.
$330,762 spent$1,231,914 earned by the program7% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,807,362.
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 2024 to 2025, from $10M to $19M (+82%).
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 47% · 2018 48% · 2019 44% · 2020 15% · 2021 13% · 2022 17% · 2023 6% · 2024 13% · 2025 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
45% of YouthBuild Newark Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
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.
Board chair
Leonard Murray
Board President
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $2.0M → $2.5M.
2 of 24 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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 YouthBuild Newark Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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 Newark Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 67%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
38% 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 Newark Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 76% · 2018 72% · 2019 34% · 2020 63% · 2021 57% · 2022 48% · 2023 40% — 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
47% of YouthBuild Newark Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
76% of YouthBuild Newark Inc's grant income comes from New Jersey funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
YouthBuild Newark Inc runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,064 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,064 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding YouthBuild Newark Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10.0M on record — $4.1M federal, $5.9M state.
- Department of Labor$4.1M
- DEDICATED$4.8M
- FEDERAL$707k
- TRUST FUND$421k
- GRANT IN AID$25k
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 Newark 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 Jersey
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
73%
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
- YB 571 Central Avenue LLC · partnership
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for YouthBuild Newark 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 Newark Inc?
- YouthBuild Newark Inc (New Jersey) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,731,957 to it, the largest being THE PRUDENTIAL FOUNDATION ($8,200,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does YouthBuild Newark Inc have?
- IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $15,731,957 in grants to YouthBuild Newark Inc, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of YouthBuild Newark Inc?
- THE PRUDENTIAL FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $8,200,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like YouthBuild Newark Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. 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 24 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