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YOU GOTTA BELIEVE THE OLDER CHILD ADOPTION & PERMANENCY MOVEMENT

EIN 11-3272603 NEW YORK, NY

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Revenue 2024
$2,155,833
Expenses 2024
$2,468,282

Program services were 80.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
P31
Classification
1000
Street
305 7TH AVE RM 13A

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

TO FIND YOUTH PERMANENT FAMILIES SO THAT THEY HAVE THE SUPPORT SYSTEM THEY NEED TO LIVE SAFELY AND TO THEIR HIGHEST POTENTIAL. WHETHER THAT MEANS HELPING YOUTH RECONNECT TO THEIR FAMILIES OF ORIGIN, TO OTHER PEOPLE WHO HAVE PLAYED A ROLE IN THEIR LIVES, OR TO NEW FAMILIES THAT WILL MAKE A NEW COMMITMENT TO BE THERE FOR LIFE.

Activities or mission (Part I)

YOU GOTTA BELIEVE! THE OLDER CHILD ADOPTION AND PERMANENCY MOVEMENT, INC. WAS FOUNDED IN 1995 AS A HOMELESSNESS PREVENTION PROGRAM. YOU GOTTA BELIEVE SEEKS TO PREVENT HOMELESSNESS AND OTHER DIRE OUTCOMES FOR PRE-TEENS, TEENS AND YOUNG ADULTS IN FOSTER CARE BY CONNECTING THEM WITH PERMANENT, LEGAL AND MORAL HOMES BEFORE THEY AGE OUT OF THE FOSTER CARE SYSTEM.

  • KEY PROGRAMS INCLUDE A 10-WEEK PARENT PREPARATION COURSE OFFERED TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC THROUGHOUT NEW YORK CITY AND IN LONG ISLAND; FOSTER AND ADOPTIVE PARENT HOME STUDIES AND LICENSING; INTENSIVE CHILD AND YOUTH-SPECIFIC PARENT RECRUITMENT; YOUTH FOSTER/ADOPTIVE PLACEMENT AND MONITORING; TRAINING AND TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE TO FOSTER CARE AGENCIES, "NOBODY AGES OUT" ADVOCACY ON BEHALF OF OLDER YOUTH IN FOSTER CARE, AND ADOPTION COMPETENT THERAPY FOR YGB YOUTH AND THEIR FAMILIES ARE OFFERED AT NO COST.

    Expenses $1,992,760 · Revenue $603,346

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Paul Carlesimo

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Robin Rosenbluth

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • John Weitzer

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Nicole Green

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Sabrina Glaser

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Brigitte McCray

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Romy Coquillette

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Mark Basile

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Brian Foster

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • James A Acey-Van Brunt

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Shrinkhala Basnet

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Amber Williams

    TRUSTEE (TERM AUG 2024)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Juan Battle

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Maria Llerena

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Daniel Taitz

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Matt Ansel

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Jennifer Pinder

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $181,113
    From this org
    $162,533
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $18,580
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $154,576
    Bonus
    $7,957
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $6,021
    Nontaxable benefits
    $12,559
    Filer's total
    $181,113
  • Jennifer Lucas

    DIRECTOR OF FINANCE

    Total calculated
    $52,743
    From this org
    $50,846
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $1,897
    Hours/week
    30

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $2,155,833
    Expenses
    $2,468,282
    Contributions
    $1,299,888
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,198,703
    Expenses
    $2,340,646
    Contributions
    $1,778,159
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,880,290
    Expenses
    $2,195,805
    Contributions
    $1,554,001
    Grants paid
    $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2024 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported
  • 2023 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported
  • 2022 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported
  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,561,601
    Expenses
    $1,781,885
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,836,593
  • 2021 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,398,416
    Expenses
    $1,527,372
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,170,853
  • 2020 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,518,873
    Expenses
    $1,290,355
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,225,468
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,468,797
    Expenses
    $1,228,619
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,864,381
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,446,986
    Expenses
    $1,244,785
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,607,138

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

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

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.