New Mexico · Nonprofit
YOUTHWORKS
YOUTHWORKS (New Mexico) receives grants from 58 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,092,358 to it, the largest being SANTA FE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($398,985). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.7M
- Funders on record
- 58
- Grants received
- $2.1M
- Net assets
- $1.0M
What Youthworks does
Mission
Serves disadvantaged and at-risk youth in santa fe and northern nm. Specializes in a full spectrum of culturally appropriate programs to assist predominantly hispanic and native american high-risk youth to develop job skills and gain education and workforce crentatials through training and wrap-around support.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Santa fe youthbuild: delivers workforce preparation and career education and industry certification, ged preparation and completion, soft skills training, leadership training, case management services, resume-building, job search and placement. Apprenticeship placement and college placement for youth and young adults ages 16-24.
$476,986 spent32% of program spendingCulinary arts program: delivers hands-on paid training, teambuilding and social skills and professional culinary and hospitality career path skills, industry credentials and college credits to youth and young adults ages 16-24 through commercial-kitchen production of daily meals and vending of meals to after school programs, homeless shelters, preschools, and offers catering services for events, private business and private groups.
$453,832 spent$182,472 earned by the program31% of program spendingEnvironmental restoration corps program: delivers paid hands-on training, practical environment and habitat knowledge and skils, teamwork, leadership and social skills, and professional career path skills attainment to youth and young adults ages 16-24 through engagement in local and regional environmental restoration, river and watershed habitat restoration, wildland fire mitigation, and land management projects.
City of santa fe affordable housing trust fund: the city of santa fe's affordable housing trust fund works proactively with the public, nonprofit, and private sectors to increase affordable housing opportunities for santa fe's low- and moderate-income residents, addressing the needs of all residents from the homeless to the renter, provides rental voucher assistance, utility bill assistance and eviction prevnetion funds assistance. Youthworks is an ahtf recipient and distributes specific asset funds to citizens who can prove the need for assistance in order to avoid homelessness.
Flex fund program: the city of santa fe's community services department initiated a response to the economic instability caused by covid-19 pandemic with funds, "flex funds" to assist individuals and families with housing, transportation, food, utilities and other survival needs that arose due to pandemic workplace closures. Youthworks was a partner agency with the city of santa fe in this project, and distributed funds to those who's situations proved the need for specific funding assistance.
Juvenile community corrections prevention and intervention program: delivers positive youth development-focused community based services, education assistance, job training and placement, referral resources, life skills and social skills training for youth and their families who have been referred to such services by regional juvenile probation officers and the court system.
$148,230 spent10% of program spendingCase management and resource referral program: city of santa fe and santa fe county community service divisions contract for safety net and resource referral navigation services for youth, young adults and their families needing social support services, including but not limited to transportation, food, legal advocacy and referral, childcare, medical/dental care, household items, and government issued identification to gain greater life stability.
$320,700 spent22% of program spendingThriftworks- a customer service/retail management training and certification programfor youth trainees via the operation of a thrift store by the organization. The thrift storeis a satellite venue of the organization where the public can donate used goods andpurchase items to contribute to program income that supports youth training in customerservice/retail as a social enterprise operation.
$68,332 spent5% of program spending
The 8 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,468,080.
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 2021 to 2022, from $672k to $1.5M (+126%).
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 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 39% · 2023 67% · 2025 70%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
87% of YOUTHWORKS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than 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.
Chief executive
Melynn Schuyler
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 18 funders, grant income rose $177k → $271k.
12 of 58 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% 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 YOUTHWORKS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 58 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
YOUTHWORKS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% 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
72% 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 YOUTHWORKS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 34% · 2018 25% · 2019 31% · 2020 20% · 2021 22% · 2022 26% · 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
30% of YOUTHWORKS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 40% 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
67% of YOUTHWORKS's grant income comes from New Mexico funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $785k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
YOUTHWORKS runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,152 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,152 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding YOUTHWORKS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.8M on record.
- Department of Labor$3.8M
- National Endowment for the Arts$40k
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 YOUTHWORKS
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 Mexico
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
71% 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 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for YOUTHWORKS: 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 YOUTHWORKS?
- YOUTHWORKS (New Mexico) receives grants from 58 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,092,358 to it, the largest being SANTA FE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($398,985). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does YOUTHWORKS have?
- IRS filings report 58 organizations giving $2,092,358 in grants to YOUTHWORKS, 23 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of YOUTHWORKS?
- SANTA FE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $398,985 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like YOUTHWORKS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Mexico. 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 58 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