CENTER FOR YOUTH SERVICES INC

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

P300

Classification

1200

Street

905 MONROE AVE

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 · 2025

• Withheld by Nonprofiteer: this text may name a private individual.

  Expenses $8,867,606 · Revenue $8,083,416

• Runaway and Homeless:1. Emergency Shelter ProgramThrough our homeless youth shelter, The Center House, or in their volunteer Host Homes, the program provides a short-term voluntary safe haven to homeless and runaway youth ages 12-21 (12-17 for Shelter, 12-21 for Host Homes). During their stay, youth receive chemical dependency prevention counseling, individual and family counseling, and case management services to assist in reuniting them with their families, as well as supportive aftercare services.(Continued on Schedule O.)Through Life Skills workshops and one on one counseling, The Center works with each youth to increase their coping skills and avoid environments that lead to high risk activities such as alcohol and substance abuse. When reunification is not possible, youth are assisted with securing alternative stable housing.2. Transitional Living Program (Devonshire, Chrysalis House, and Arnett House)The Transitional Living Program is designed to support older homeless youth ages 16-21, who do not have family support as they transition into adulthood. The Center provides subsidized apartments or assistance in securing stable housing, case management and independent living skills training for up to 18 months. Chrysalis House is a maternity group home, combining a safe and structured environment with adult supervision in a large and beautiful home. It is designed for homeless pregnant/parenting and non-parenting teenage girls in desperate need of safe and stable housing who benefit from the structure and support provided to youth living in this home. The newest program, Arnett House, is for LGBTQ+ and youth who have experienced trafficking ages 16 - 24. It is a 3-bedroom house that serves up to 6 young people with case management, life skills, and other supports for 6 - 8 months.3. Street Outreach ProgramThe goals of the Street Outreach Program are to provide education and prevention services to reduce the incidence of sexual abuse and/or exploitation of street youth, and to help them leave the streets. The Center does this by building trusting relationships with street youth, providing them with survival supports (food, clothing, hygiene products) and giving them immediate access to emergency shelter services. Counselors also work very closely with community agencies to connect youth with needed services. 4. Project Safe PlaceThis community collaboration among The Center, community businesses and volunteers offers young people access to safety 24/7. The goal of the project is to create safe and accessible points of entry for youth ages 12-21 at all Tops Markets, RTS buses, YMCAs, City of Rochester Parks and Recreation, and other locations. Youth can access Safe Place locations day or night and are immediately connected with trained professionals and volunteers from The Center who will assist them in connecting with the services they need. 5. New Beginning HouseThis 3-apartment, 6-bedroom building is for young men ages 16-24, who are experiencing housing instability while trying to complete their education and/or obtain and maintain employment. Much like our Transitional Living Program and Emergency Shelter, the New Beginning House is built on the Center's foundation of positive-youth development and trauma-focused service delivery. Length of stay and intensity of services is driven by the needs of the resident. Services include independent living skills, mentorship opportunities and connection to on-going, permanent relationships with safe adults in the community.6. Rapid Rehousing ProgramThis program assists young adults ages 18 - 25 who are currently homeless and residing in emergency shelters in quickly obtaining independent, permanent housing in the community. Specialists assist with apartment searches and applications as well with obtaining employment in order to maintain housing and in identifying landlords who are willing to partner with the program.7. Crisis Nursery: The Crisis Nursery (two locations including Owen's House) operates two 6 bed respite shelters for children ages 0-14 years, and up to 17 as part of a sibling group, with parental consent and involvement. The program responds to families in crisis 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, providing safe and consistent care in an effort to reduce the trauma on the children and their families. 8. Safe Harbour: The Safe Harbour program provides advocacy and intensive case management for minor victims of commercial sexual exploitation. Through partnership with Monroe County Youth Bureau and DHS, The Center's Safe Harbour program also provides training and case coordination for Child Welfare programs and other non-profits serving vulnerable youth. These programs include funding by contributions and government grants in the amount of $2,966,324.

  Expenses $3,741,571 · Revenue $64,943

• Workforce Initiative: Learn 2 Earn (L2E): This asset-based year-round workforce program includes both the L2E out of school program for youth 16-21 years and in school participation for youth ages 14-18 years still in school. RochesterWorks! is the funder for the L2E out of school program and the in school program in funded through the support of the ESL Foundation. These programs provide both summer employment and permanent employment through job coaching, career exploration, credential attainment, and volunteering in the community, mentoring and academic enrichment, and social/emotional support as well as personal exploration. L2E is also particularly focused on the needs and challenges of older youth who may also face homelessness and are in need of employment and educational opportunities to sustain and thrive. This program includes funding by contributions and government grants in the amount of $306,787.

  Expenses $581,814 · Revenue $233,949

• Counseling Intervention:Counselors provide essential chemical dependency prevention, individual and family counseling, and crisis intervention services including youth intake and assessment, case management, advocacy, and follow-up. Utilizing evidence-based practices and programs, counselors work with youth to increase decision-making skills and protective factors in order to reduce alcohol and substance abuse and other high-risk behaviors. Counseling staff are stationed in The Center's downtown office, schools, and community organizations.Information and referral services are available 24 hours a day through the staffed help line to ensure maximum accessibility and responsiveness to youth needs.This program includes funding by contributions and government grants in the amount of $626,086.Teen Court: Rochester Teen Court is a voluntary, peer-to-peer alternative intended to turn a young person's first encounter with the adult criminal justice system into their last. A judge presides over the court with youth volunteers serving as jurors and attorneys. Cases are selected when defendants realize their responsibility and are willing to accept the sentence selected by their peers. Sanctions include community service, counseling and relevant workshops. Peer Court utilizes volunteers within the school to serve on a panel in a restorative justice model. Peer Accountability Court:The Greece Central School District decided to address long term suspensions for actions that impaired the academic process by adding a Peer Accountability Court or PAC in its secondary school sites. Based on the approaches taken by Rochester Teen Court, the PAC program is a sentencing option, and students take responsibility for their actions and then face the consequences using a restorative practice model. The goal is the repair harm and build community in a school setting which results in a reduced out of school suspension and a reengagement with the school. The students involved with the PAC program has impacted the academic environment and are working on resolving that behavior and moving forward with repairing the harm that may have been caused. This initiative is supported and supervised by the leadership team in Rochester Teen Court.Youth Development Opportunities and Volunteerism: The talents, skills, and time given to The Center by hundreds of youth and adult volunteers transform the lives of our youth. These generous community members listen, counsel, tutor, provide meals, host parties and college tours, plant flowers, clean our buildings, sort books, furnish coats, scarves, suitcases, duffle bags and provide holiday gifts. Simply put, The Center could not operate as they do without them. It is through their spirit of generosity and understanding, and their belief in what they do here at The Center that makes these volunteers so precious to The Center.Bridge to Peace - Restorative Practices - Youth Leadership:The Center for Youth was founded more than 50 years ago on the principles of youth voice and youth leadership, on removing barriers and providing social and racial justice and on repairing harm and building community. The newest initiative, located at 797 Monroe Avenue, provides the agency the opportunity to return to this mission in a new site that is led by youth and focuses on the use of restorative practices across all programs. The Bridge to Peace building is the home of the Learn to Earn program, arts of all types, including dance, music, and visual and graphic arts, as well as basketball and other sports. Most importantly, 797 Monroe welcomes youth of all ages and incorporates the use of restorative circles in all programs. Celebrating youth voice is essential in all Center programs but nowhere more emphasized than at the Bridge to Peace. With a keen eye to anti-violence and social justice, the additional programs offered at 797 Monroe connect with other agencies, school districts and programs to insure that youth are respected and valued and that their voices are heard.Engagement in the City of Rochester R Centers - The Center for Youth was invited to integrate its services in the R Centers throughout the City of Rochester to provide social emotional support and crisis intervention to young people by embeddings our services and support in the recreation centers to become full partners with the City of Rochester and to impact children and youth across 5 sites. The work involves providing complementary programs to the work of the recreation center and acts as a resource and referrals for families as well as youth who might struggle with positive engagement. The Center staff assigned to the R Centers are skilled in restorative practices, positive youth development, counseling and case management and navigation of systems. The CFT of Child Family Therapist provide higher level one on one support as well.The Nook - The Center's 905 Monroe Avenue location is the home of a food pantry and clothes closet that supplies a variety of non-perishable food, diapers, hygiene products and other youth needs.

  Expenses $2,534,930 · Revenue $232,868

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here. A text marked withheld matched a screen for wording that may name a private individual, such as an honorific or "in memory of". Most of what it withholds names no one; it is withheld so that what does is never shown.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

• Martin Weingarten

  Director

  Total calculated

  $0

  Hours/week

  1.2

• Christine Coward

  Director

  Total calculated

  $0

  Hours/week

  1.2

• Shaun Nelms

  Director

  Total calculated

  $0

  Hours/week

  1.2

• Terra Keller

  Director

  Total calculated

  $0

  Hours/week

  1.2

• Jason Piper

  Treasurer

  Total calculated

  $0

  Hours/week

  2.3 + 0.7 related

• Olga Mendez

  Director

  Total calculated

  $0

  Hours/week

  1.2

• Margaret Burns

  Director

  Total calculated

  $0

  Hours/week

  1.2

• Milton Pichardo

  Director

  Total calculated

  $0

  Hours/week

  1.2

• Kate Beardsley

  Director

  Total calculated

  $0

  Hours/week

  1.2

• Matthew Reynell

  Director

  Total calculated

  $0

  Hours/week

  1.2

• Christian Hancey

  Vice President

  Total calculated

  $0

  Hours/week

  2.3 + 0.7 related

• Doug Hendee

  Director

  Total calculated

  $0

  Hours/week

  1.2

• Erica Smith

  Director

  Total calculated

  $0

  Hours/week

  1.2

• Cheryl Gossin

  President

  Total calculated

  $0

  Hours/week

  2.3 + 0.7 related

• Miranda Carter

  Director

  Total calculated

  $0

  Hours/week

  1.2 + 0.7 related

• Kermin Martinez-Hernandez

  Director

  Total calculated

  $0

  Hours/week

  1.2 + 0.7 related

• Jessica Naclerio

  Director

  Total calculated

  $0

  Hours/week

  1.2

• Alicia Nestle

  Director

  Total calculated

  $0

  Hours/week

  1.2 + 0.7 related

• Sangeeta Sarraf

  Director

  Total calculated

  $0

  Hours/week

  1.2

• Cedrick-Michael Simmons

  Director

  Total calculated

  $0

  Hours/week

  1.2

• Ashara Baker

  Director

  Total calculated

  $0

  Hours/week

  1.2

• Jeffrey Green

  Director

  Total calculated

  $0

  Hours/week

  1.2

• Jackie Kubera-Martin

  Director

  Total calculated

  $0

  Hours/week

  1.2

• Latoya Lee

  Director

  Total calculated

  $0

  Hours/week

  1.2

• Anita Misra

  Director

  Total calculated

  $0

  Hours/week

  1.2

The first 25 listed. 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

• 2025

  Revenue

  $17,900,312

  Expenses

  $17,588,977

  Contributions

  $9,154,668

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2024

  Revenue

  $18,248,080

  Expenses

  $16,247,392

  Contributions

  $10,274,425

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2023

  Revenue

  $17,382,963

  Expenses

  $14,091,308

  Contributions

  $10,505,559

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2022

  Revenue

  $12,229,515

  Expenses

  $12,095,627

  Contributions

  $7,072,052

  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

  $11,026,300

  Expenses

  $10,429,180

  Assets (EOY)

  $5,432,690

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $10,895,665

  Expenses

  $10,101,484

  Assets (EOY)

  $5,383,897

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $9,482,382

  Expenses

  $9,602,187

  Assets (EOY)

  $4,301,630

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $9,596,482

  Expenses

  $9,015,938

  Assets (EOY)

  $4,428,505

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $8,145,993

  Expenses

  $7,572,793

  Assets (EOY)

  $3,872,429

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $6,892,026

  Expenses

  $6,369,138

  Assets (EOY)

  $3,268,716

• 2015 · 990

  Revenue

  $5,724,077

  Expenses

  $5,690,875

  Assets (EOY)

  $2,921,139

• 2014 · 990

  Revenue

  $5,698,349

  Expenses

  $5,392,267

  Assets (EOY)

  $2,961,330

• 2013 · 990

  Revenue

  $5,039,154

  Expenses

  $5,086,313

  Assets (EOY)

  $2,486,639

• 2012 · 990

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  $5,285,239

  Assets (EOY)

  $2,914,448

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

• UNITED WAY OF GREATER ROCHESTER AND THE FINGER LAKES INC

  $614,654

  2022 · AGENCY ALLOCATION & GRANT

• UNITED WAY OF GREATER ROCHESTER AND THE FINGER LAKES INC

  $585,149

  2023 · AGENCY ALLOCATION

• UNITED WAY OF GREATER ROCHESTER AND THE FINGER LAKES INC

  $548,961

  2024 · ALLOCATION, ROC THE DAY

• ROCHESTERWORKS INC

  $253,511

  2022 · YOUTH

• ROCHESTERWORKS INC

  $236,197

  2024 · WIOA YOUTH

• ROCHESTERWORKS INC

  $205,458

  2023 · WIOA YOUTH

• ROCHESTERWORKS INC

  $71,463

  2024 · SCHOOL TO WORK

• ROCHESTER AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

  $64,450

  2023 · RE-ENGAGING YOUTH; RESTORING JUSTICE AND GENERAL SUPPORT

• ROCHESTERWORKS INC

  $55,573

  2022 · YOUTH

• ROCHESTERWORKS INC

  $54,091

  2023 · GVP YOUTH

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

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

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