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FAMILY AND YOUTH INITIATIVE INC

EIN 38-3828204 WASHINGTON, DC

Largest nonprofits in District of Columbia

Revenue 2024
$470,539
Expenses 2024
$410,548

Program services were 68.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
P32
Classification
1000
Street
853 NEW JERSEY AVE SE STE 200

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).

Other organizations at this address

5 other organizations in the IRS Business Master File list the same street address. matched by us

This address is a suite or unit (STE 200). Organizations that share one are often clients of the same office-services firm, accountant or registered agent rather than related to each other.

We match the street line and ZIP code as the IRS gives them, ignoring case and outer spaces and nothing else, so "AVE" and "AVENUE" count as different streets and this list can miss some. A shared address can mean related organizations or a shared office, but it can also be a registered agent, a mail drop or a service provider holding mail for unrelated clients. It is not, by itself, evidence that two organizations are connected.

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

Family & Youth Initiative creates a supportive community and lasting relationships for teens and young adults who are in or have aged out of foster care. We believe that every child deserves family and are committed to increasing the number of teens who find adoptive families or develop what become lifelong relationships with other supportive adults.

  • Family and Youth Initiative helps teens in foster care find adoptive families and develop lasting connections with other caring adults. Monthly program events bring together teens and adults to form relationships. We recruit and train volunteer mentors, host families, Committed Community Members, and event drivers; participating adoptive families complete their training and home study with a partner agency. We match teens and adults based on relationships that start at events. Adult volunteers make a specific commitment to length and intensity of time they will spend with teen once matched. Youth who age out of foster care continue to participate with DCFYI and keep their connections for as long as they want. Every participating teen or young adult develops at least one meaningful and lasting relationship with a caring adult.

    Expenses $197,528

  • Family and Youth Initiative is supporting a dedicated group of Lived Experts (young people with the lived experience of being or having been in DC foster care) who are creating a new and innovative permanency option for older youth who are in foster care. The Lived Experts are designing the "SOUL" permanency option in conjunction with professional partners, primarily at DC Child and Family Services Agency, the office of the DC Attorney General, and Children's Law Center. They are proud of having been able to use their experience and voice to create a better path out of foster care for other youth now and into the future. We are proud to be supporting them (and the other agencies) in this work.

    Expenses $31,348

  • In the Open Table program, we recruit, train, and match six to eight volunteers with one young adult who has aged out of foster care. Tables build relationships with the young person (or "Friend") and support them in achieving whatever goal/s they set for themselves. Tables meet weekly for a year. Some Friends and volunteers continue in their relationships after the formal Table year ends.

    Expenses $43,290

  • The Fund for Critical Youth Needs is used to ensure DCFYI youth are able to cover critical needs like housing, transportation, medications, and/or job-related expenses (including clothing and transportation until they receive a first paycheck.

    Expenses $9,035

As filed on the 2024 return.

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.

  • Susan Punnett

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $65,000
    From this org
    $65,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Schylar Baber

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Marcela Monti

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Caleb Piatt

    Director and Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Michele Reed

    Director and Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Lindsay Clark

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Tanya Wedderburn

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Kevin Xu

    Director and Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Benjamin Willis

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Wendy Harman

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Aaron Warren

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Christina Wentworth

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Spencer Dunham

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $470,539
    Expenses
    $410,548
    Contributions
    $450,795
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $470,539
    Expenses
    $410,548
    Contributions
    $450,795
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $307,672
    Expenses
    $341,310
    Contributions
    $297,087
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $332,154
    Expenses
    $335,520
    Contributions
    $326,275
    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

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $292,411
    Expenses
    $260,118
    Assets (EOY)
    $229,629

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $249,290
    Expenses
    $197,861
    Assets (EOY)
    $198,980

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $201,057
    Expenses
    $179,728
    Assets (EOY)
    $146,082

  • 2017 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $113,976
    Expenses
    $166,065
    Assets (EOY)
    $114,608

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.

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 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.