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California Youth Connection

EIN 94-3141616Human Services California Small

Historical collection: May 2019 · Rating details mostly from 2017. Source & context

The mission

What this organization describes

Our Voices, Our Future

California Youth Connection (CYC) is a youth led organization that develops leaders who empower each other and their communities to transform the foster care system through legislative and policy change. CYC was founded in 1988 by a group of foster youth and supportive adults to provide a vehicle for California foster youth to learn leadership and advocacy skills and to engage directly with policymakers to improve the foster care system. Every year, CYC serves more than 500 foster youth members, ages 14-24, through 32 county-based chapters throughout the state.

Mission and tagline reproduced from the source record.

Historical scorecard

Three perspectives. One record.

78.22Overall score
out of 100

71.24Financial score
out of 100

89.00Accountability & transparency
out of 100

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Financial context

Revenue, expenses, and composition

Total revenue · USD$2,750,740

Total expenses · USD$2,848,916

Program expenses

$2,130,989.17 recorded amount

74.8%

Fundraising expenses

$213,668.70 recorded amount

7.5%

Administrative expenses

$498,560.30 recorded amount

17.5%

Fundraising efficiency: $0.08 spent per $1 raised in donations, as defined in the source.

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Historical leadership record

The leadership information supplied

Recorded leader: Haydee Cuza
Recorded compensation: $35,000.00
Recorded compensation percentage: 1.22%

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Inspect all 23 original source fields

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All 23 original fields for California Youth Connection
Source field	Original source value
`ascore` Accountability & transparency score	89.0
`category` Category	Human Services
`description` Mission & description	California Youth Connection (CYC) is a youth led organization that develops leaders who empower each other and their communities to transform the foster care system through legislative and policy change. CYC was founded in 1988 by a group of foster youth and supportive adults to provide a vehicle for California foster youth to learn leadership and advocacy skills and to engage directly with policymakers to improve the foster care system. Every year, CYC serves more than 500 foster youth members, ages 14-24, through 32 county-based chapters throughout the state.
`ein` EIN	94-3141616
`tot_exp` Total expenses	2848916.0
`admin_exp_p` Administrative expense fraction	0.175
`fund_eff` Fundraising efficiency ($ per $1 raised)	0.08
`fund_exp_p` Fundraising expense fraction	0.075
`program_exp_p` Program expense fraction	0.748
`fscore` Financial score	71.24
`leader` Recorded leader	Haydee Cuza
`leader_comp` Recorded leader compensation	35000.0
`leader_comp_p` Recorded leader compensation fraction	0.012199999999999999
`motto` Tagline	Our Voices, Our Future
`name` Charity name	California Youth Connection
`tot_rev` Total revenue	2750740.0
`score` Overall score	78.22
`state` State code	CA
`subcategory` Subcategory	Youth Development, Shelter, and Crisis Services
`size` Source size label	small
`program_exp` Program expenses	2130989.168
`fund_exp` Fundraising expenses	213668.69999999998
`admin_exp` Administrative expenses	498560.3

Identity & classification

At a glance

EIN: 94-3141616
Source category: Human Services
Source subcategory: Youth Development, Shelter, and Crisis Services
Recorded location: California (CA)
Expense-based size: Small
Under $3.5M in total expenses · source label: small

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Source: Charity Navigator Scores Expenses Dataset, version 1, attributed to katyjqian on Kaggle. Collection: May 2019; rating details mostly from 2017. Read attribution, scope, and reuse notes.