Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
YOUTHPLACES
YOUTHPLACES (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,334,276 to it, the largest being RICHARD KING MELLON FOUNDATION ($325,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.8M
- Funders on record
- 22
- Grants received
- $2.3M
- Net assets
- $152k
What Youthplaces does
Mission
The mission of Youthplaces (yp) is to develop the skills of young people, and in doing so, increase their opportunity for success. Yp focuses on underserved youth and young adults in high-risk communities where few other agencies operate.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Yp's high-quality after school programs engage young people from within their community and are responsive to input and feedback from youth leaders and the communities in which they live. During the school year and summer Youthplaces provides several programs for in school youth between the ages of 12-18 (grades 6-12) which include yp stars academic enrichment and tutoring, yp fit health and wellness, yp access college and career planning, yp 1st jobs workforce development, and yp leadership mentoring. Throughout the year these programs serve approximately 1800 students across the city of pittsburgh and allegheny county.
$1,136,348 spent$8,355 earned by the program100% of program spendingKnowing that chronic unemployment and intergenerational poverty are significant barriers that lead young people/adults to engage in high risk negative behaviors within our communities, yp wanted to begin providing workforce development programs year round. The out of school youth programs engage youth and young adults between the ages of 16-24 who have obtained a ged or high school diploma in workforce development training programs in multiple skill trade areas of construction, building maintenance and management, customer service and culinary.
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,136,348.
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 2023 to 2024, from $936k to $411k (−56%).
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 78% · 2018 66% · 2019 65% · 2020 70% · 2021 78% · 2022 58% · 2023 62% · 2024 66% · 2025 52%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of YOUTHPLACES’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Chief executive
Cynthia James
President and CEO
Board chair
Mike Denove
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 8 funders, grant income rose $0 → $470k.
3 of 22 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: $618k from 3 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Pittsburgh Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money YOUTHPLACES raised.
From the IRS filings of YOUTHPLACES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 21 of 22 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
YOUTHPLACES has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 71% · 2019 41% · 2020 44% · 2021 41% · 2022 47% · 2023 32% — 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
42% of YOUTHPLACES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 73% 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
97% of YOUTHPLACES's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $187k 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.
Against its field
YOUTHPLACES 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
Organizations like YOUTHPLACES
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
66% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
89%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for YOUTHPLACES: 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 YOUTHPLACES?
- YOUTHPLACES (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,334,276 to it, the largest being RICHARD KING MELLON FOUNDATION ($325,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does YOUTHPLACES have?
- IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $2,334,276 in grants to YOUTHPLACES, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of YOUTHPLACES?
- RICHARD KING MELLON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $325,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like YOUTHPLACES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 22 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