Washington · Nonprofit
YOUTHCARE
YOUTHCARE (Washington) receives grants from 191 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,458,653 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($2,569,783). 125 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $18M
- Funders on record
- 191
- Grants received
- $23M
- Net assets
- $25M
What Youthcare does
Mission
Youthcare works to end youth homelessness and to ensure that young people are valued for who they are and empowered to achieve their potential.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Housing is provided through short term emergency shelters - the adolescent shelter for under-18 youth, the casa de los amigos group home for unaccompanied, undocumented minors, a group living program for unaccompanied refugee minors called phoenix and the orion center shelter, formerly located at south seattle youth center. Additionally, Youthcare operates two transitional living programs for young people, ages 16-22: isis at ravenna house and catalyst at straley house. Isis has a particular focus on serving lbtqia+ youth due to their disproportionate representation among youth experiencing homelessness. The home of hope bridge housing program provides crisis housing and rapid re-housing for young adults, ages 18-24. Lastly, Youthcare operates a supportive/master leasing program, james place studios, for young adults, ages 18-24. In 2024 Youthcare served 252 individuals across housing providers. 50% of those who exited during the year exited to safe and stable housing.
$4,754,176 spentof which $107,929 as grants39% of program spendingYouthcare's centralized client services (ccs) programming includes early intervention and specialized services support for young people who are at risk of or experiencing homelessness, with a unique focus on populations disproportionately at risk. These services include specialized community advocacy via the bridge collaborative, a multi-agency partnership coordinated by Youthcare that provides case management, support, and resources to youth and young adults experiencing labor trafficking, sex trafficking, or sexual violence. Youthcare also provides transition case management to young people inside detention and upon their release so that no young person exits detention into homelessness. Youthcare's youth and family connection network, which runs in partnership with the ymca and the garage, a teen cafe, assists young people and their families who are experiencing homelessness or a crisis that could lead to homelessness. Lastly, Youthcare's housing navigators provide financial resources and community-based case management to youth and families at imminent risk of homelessness in king county while student/youth resource navigators work inside local schools, teen centers, and other…
$3,284,580 spent27% of program spendingYouthcare's engagement services include both street and community-based outreach as well as drop-in day services at the orion center, university district youth center, and south seattle youth center. Youthcare's outreach team engages young people on the streets or in the community to help them meet their basic needs and connect to services. All three engagement centers, located in downtown seattle, the university district, and rainier beach, respectively, provide a safe space for young people to visit during the day to enjoy a meal, meet with supportive staff, connect to services, and start to think about next steps.in 2024 Youthcare served 1234 individuals in engagement center services across 3 sites. 427 of these individuals, or 35%, enrolled in other Youthcare programs.
$2,515,829 spent21% of program spendingYouthcare's workforce development programming provides young people with the skills they need to attain employment and achieve stability and self-sufficiency. A key facet of this programming is education support to ensure that young people have their high school diploma or ged and can obtain a living wage job or pursue post-secondary education. Workforce development programming also includes job readiness training to help young people build "soft" skills like time management and self-advocacy, individualized workforce navigation, and sector-based training that focuses on building specific "hard" skills and expertise that translate directly into a job.
$1,500,445 spent12% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $12,055,030.
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 2017 to 2018, from $15M to $23M (+52%).
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 68% · 2018 47% · 2019 64% · 2020 72% · 2021 75% · 2022 63% · 2023 68% · 2024 66%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
91% of YOUTHCARE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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
Degale Cooper
CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020, and between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 58 funders to 80 funders, grant income rose $2.8M → $3.1M.
22 of 191 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 37% 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 YOUTHCARE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 191 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
YOUTHCARE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 11% of grant income, and it takes 8 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 8 funders to its left
60% 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 YOUTHCARE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 24% · 2018 19% · 2019 19% · 2020 16% · 2021 18% · 2022 29% · 2023 21% — 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
43% of YOUTHCARE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
82% of YOUTHCARE's grant income comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $8.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 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
YOUTHCARE's funding base is broadening — from 58 funders to 80 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,289 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding YOUTHCARE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $35.7M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$24.5M
- Department of Labor$4.5M
- Department of Justice$3.6M
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$3.1M
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 YOUTHCARE
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 Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
59% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
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
- Yc Broadway Pine LLC · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for YOUTHCARE: 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 YOUTHCARE?
- YOUTHCARE (Washington) receives grants from 191 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,458,653 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($2,569,783). 125 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does YOUTHCARE have?
- IRS filings report 191 organizations giving $23,458,653 in grants to YOUTHCARE, 125 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of YOUTHCARE?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,569,783 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like YOUTHCARE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 191 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