Youth and Family Alliance

Analysis

Youth and Family Alliance is a registered charity in United States, based in Austin, TX. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in December 1980, 46 years ago. Its declared purposes cover human services, which this site groups under poverty relief. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending September 2023, Youth and Family Alliance reported income of $22.3m and spending of $22.7m, spending 102% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from September 2019 to September 2023, income grew from $13.4m to $22.3m (+67%), an average of +14% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to September 2020, when income rose by 26%. Over the whole period it spent 103% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Youth and Family Alliance sits at the 97th percentile: it is larger than about 97% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 97th percentile, and in the 98th percentile within TX. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Association for the Advancement of Mexican Americans ($22.3m), Community Food Bank ($22.3m) and Aging Services of North Central Massachusetts Inc ($22.3m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending September 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 93% and program service revenue 6.5% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $414k (1.8% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $12.1m. At year end it held assets of $17.4m against liabilities of $4.8m, net assets of $12.6m. It reported 277 employees.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.