Form 990 for tax year 2022

Totals

Total revenue

$23,935,846

Total expenses

$17,513,667

Contributions and grants received

$21,715,671

Grants paid

$1,356,701

Program service revenue

$2,212,825

Investment income

$7,249

Other revenue

$101

Total assets, end of year

$31,323,967

Total liabilities, end of year

$3,581,234

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$27,742,733

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$14,282,860

Management and general expenses

$2,267,974

Fundraising expenses

$962,833

Program service expenses (Part III)

$14,282,860

Program services were 81.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Mission and programs · 2022

• Compassionate Education Systems (CES Formerly known as FosterEd): This program of National Center for Youth Law ("NCYL") improves the social, emotional, relational, and educational outcomes for youth in foster care, the juvenile justice system, and youth experiencing homelessness. The CES team collaborates with state and local agencies through demonstration sites to ensure that the voices of young people are central to the decision-making process on issues that impact their lives, building healing-centered school and agency cultures, and ensuring effective coordination amongst schools, community and public agencies. This team currently operates as a statewide program in Arizona focused on foster youth and demonstration sites in four California counties. Sites in Los Angeles and Contra Costa counties focus on youth in foster care, Santa Clara county focuses on youth in the juvenile justice system, and in Monterey the focus is on youth who are experiencing homelessness.

  Expenses $3,542,789 · Grants $120,000

• Health & Information: NCYL leads the Los Angeles Reproductive Health Equity Project for Foster Youth, a collective impact initiative that partners with youth with lived experiences in the foster care system and multiple public and private agencies to dismantle system-level barriers that impede youth in LA County foster care from accessing sexual and reproductive health care and education. Our Collaborative Responses to Commercial Sexual Exploitation Initiative brings together public agencies and community partners to change perceptions, build trust, develop and implement policy, and transform systems and community responses to commercial sexual exploitation to ensure survivors are supported to heal and thrive. Finally, our Adolescent Health team works to ensure that youth across the country can access confidential healthcare, including mental healthcare, and that healthcare providers understand the laws that impact their work with adolescents.

  Expenses $3,489,060 · Grants $878,801

• Juvenile Justice: NCYL's juvenile justice campaigns are transforming California's youth justice system and ending the use of juvenile fines and fees in states across the country. The California Youth Justice Initiative is a statewide collective impact campaign that leverages coalition building, communication strategies, training and technical assistance, and the direct engagement of youth and families to create changes based in principles of healthy youth development to juvenile justice system policies and practices.

  Expenses $2,531,604 · Grants $40,000

• ECRA: The Education Civil Rights Alliance is a diverse and experienced group of organizers, educator organizations, community groups, professional associations, civil rights organizations, and government agencies that are committed to protecting the civil rights of marginalized students.

  Expenses $1,644,369 · Grants $317,000

• Immigration: NCYL represents the entire class of immigrant children in U.S. federal custody, including those separated from their families, in three class-action lawsuits: Flores v. Barr, Lucas R. v. Azar, and Duchitanga v. Lloyd. Our strategies to protect the rights of immigration children and ensure that they are reunited with their families as quickly as possible include: 1) Coalition building and network strengthening; 2) Advancing impact litigation to uphold the Flores Settlement Agreement; 3) Educating the media and policymakers; and 4) Developing and disseminating resources to ensure that public systems serving immigrant children and families understand their unique traumas and respond accordingly.

  Expenses $1,262,538 · Revenue $264,691

• Legal Strategies: NCYL defends the rights of marginalized childrenacross the country through a diverse docket of impact litigation at theschool district, county, state, and federal levels. Our class-actionlawsuits focus on bringing about systemic change in each of our coreissue areas, which include: immigration, education, youth justice,child welfare, and health.

  Expenses $1,166,220 · Revenue $1,948,134

• Child Welfare: NCYL's is leading a national initiative to protect the rights of children in foster care by ending the overuse of psychotropic medication and ensuring they are only prescribed psychotropic medications when in their best interest.

  Expenses $613,132

• Other small programs unrelated to the significant programs currentlylisted.

  Expenses $33,148 · Grants $900

As filed on the 2022 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Listed in Part VII

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us.

Schedule J

Part I's answers as filed. A line not listed was left unanswered; on lines 1a and 3 that means the box was not checked.

Grants on this return

• National Network of State Teachers of the Year

  $317,000

  Youth Justice Initiative sub-grant

• Planned Parenthood Pasadena and San Gabriel Valley Inc

  $256,318

  To support development of a resilient collective impact campaign and related activities that will increase access to reproductive and sexual health care and information, and in the long run, significantly reduce the number of unwanted pregnancies in foster youth in Los Angeles County.

• Children's Law Center of California

  $149,500

  Collaborative Responses to Commercial Sexual Exploitation sub-grant

• John Burton Foundation

  $142,500

  To support development of a resilient collective impact campaign and related activities that will increase access to reproductive and sexual health care and information, and in the long run, significantly reduce the number of unwanted pregnancies in foster youth in Los Angeles County.

• Health Connected

  $136,748

  To support development of a resilient collective impact campaign and related activities that will increase access to reproductive and sexual health care and information, and in the long run, significantly reduce the number of unwanted pregnancies in foster youth in Los Angeles County.

• Contra Costa County Office of Education

  $120,000

  Education Liaison Support

• Fostering Unity

  $63,668

  Youth Justice Initiative sub-grant

• Alliance for Children's Rights

  $45,000

  To support development of a resilient collective impact campaign and related activities that will increase access to reproductive and sexual health care and information, and in the long run, significantly reduce the number of unwanted pregnancies in foster youth in Los Angeles County.

• Colorado Circles for Change - Denver

  $40,000

  Support of a collective impact effort to reduce youth incarceration and system involvement

• Public Counsel

  $40,000

  To support development of a resilient collective impact campaign and related activities that will increase access to reproductive and sexual health care and information, and in the long run, significantly reduce the number of unwanted pregnancies in foster youth in Los Angeles County.

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Provenance

Return type

form_990

Tax year

2022

Filed

28 July 2023

IRS schema version

2022v5.0

Source object

202312099349301221

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