Partners for Youth with Disabilities
EIN: 22-2627798
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
Despite progress since the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1985, individual and institutional ableism still exist. Disability remains highly stigmatized, and people with disabilities continue to be denied equal opportunity, access, and independence. For example, labor force participation for Americans with disabilities was 21.2% compared to 68.7% for individuals without disabilities. Workers with disabilities on average earn 37% less than their peers without disabilities for the same work. Youth with disabilities are four times more likely to become involved in the juvenile justice system (Gagnon & Richards, 2008). 38% don’t complete high school, compared to 19% without disabilities (Education Week, 2015). 80% of youth with learning disabilities are bullied at school and this frequency is greater for youth with disabilities that affect their appearance. (Council for Exceptional Children, 2008).
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Mentor Match
PYD's founding and cornerstone program carefully pairs and actively supports 150 youth with disabilities matched with caring adults in a unique one-to-one mentoring relationship to foster independent living skills and self-esteem.
Access to Theatre
Since 1994, Access to Theatre (ATT) has brought together a diverse group of youth people with and without disabilities in Greater Boston to explore their creative talents and experience hands-on music, acting, movement, and visual arts through afterschool and summer programs and performances.
Career Readiness Program
Career Readiness Program is a career development program for Boston urban youth with disabilities in high school, which addresses barriers to employment and independence. Partnering with inner-city Boston schools, we offer work-based experiences, mentors from the business community, as well as classroom learning through a Universal Design for Learning curriculum.
National Center for Mentoring Youth with Disabilities
PYD's National Center was founded in 2005 to meet a need for providing training and resources for other mentoring and youth-serving organizations interested in replicating PYD's time-tested mentoring programs or making their programs more inclusive of youth with disabilities.
Where we work
Awards
Inclusion Champion PYD National Center for Mentoring Youth with Disabilities 2011
Mitsubishi Electric America Foundation
BOSTnet STAR Awards - Disability Inclusion Star, Regina Snowden, PYD Executive Director 2010
BOSTnet Build the Out-of-School Time Network
Excellence in Non-Profit Management, Regina Snowden, PYD Executive Director 2008
Massachusetts Council of Human Service Providers, Inc.
Local Hero Award, Neighborhood Excellence Initiative 2006
Bank of America
Best Practices Award in Teen Programming 2005
Boston Foundation and Boston After-School for All Partnership
Coming Up Taller Award 2004
President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities and the National Endowment for the Arts
Community Partnership Award 2014
Federation for Children with Special Needs
Social Innovator 2018
Social Innovation Forum - Boston
Affiliations & memberships
Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce
Massachusetts Nonprofit Network
United Way Member Agency
Massachusetts Council of Human Service Providers
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Goals & Strategy
Learn about the organization's key goals, strategies, capabilities, and progress.
Charting impact
Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.
What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
We aim to reach equity of opportunity for all youth and young adults with disabilities. Our goal is to ensure that youth with disabilities gain confidence, self-advocacy and career readiness skills. It is through mentoring, a social network, and career development opportunities that improve a young person’s self-perception and leads to greater independence and success as an adult. The U.S. Department of Labor has recognized mentoring as one of the most important strategies for assisting youth in making a positive transition to adulthood.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
We are currently formulating our next multi-year strategic plan to be shared in 2019. Using this plan as a guide, executive leadership works closely with the PYD Board of Directors, staff and other stakeholders to grow programs and fundraising efforts. As part of the strategy to reach our overarching goal, we ensure a passionate and knowledgeable staff who are leaders in the field of youth development. PYD encourages professional development and trainings for its employees. PYD provides one-to-one mentoring and group mentoring, job readiness and leadership development programs, both direct service and eLearning. The organization evaluates program progress and challenges through standardized measures.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
Over the past 33 years, PYD has served thousands of youth with developmental, sensory, learning, and physical disabilities and their families. Through these three decades of experience in the youth development realm, we have time-tested, substantive methods for program delivery. Due to our history of success, we have become a national leader in the field. We rely on a diverse revenue stream to fund this work, growth and impact. Our Board of Directors guides and works with us on our path of growth. Further, we work with The Analysis Group, a private firm, to ensure our evaluations and measures are efficient and evolve.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
PYD is a pioneer in programs that result in greater opportunities for young people to succeed as adults. PYD’s mentoring, social programs, family supports, career development, and inclusion trainings work to level the playing field and expand horizons for people with disabilities. Due to our history and capacity, we recently became home to the National Disability Mentoring Coalition, comprised of over 60 organizations dedicated to mentoring for youth and young adults with disabilities. A total of 1,933 individuals were served throughout PYD in FY2018, and of those, 548 were youth. Over the next two years, our goal is to increase the number of participants in core programs by 15% each year. To facilitate this growth, the organization will continue to expand the use of its online platform to train/support mentees, teachers, mentors, and employers who engage young people with disabilities, as well as as partnering with organizations seeking to replicate PYD’s mentoring models.
Financials
Financial documents
Download audited financialsRevenue vs. expenses: breakdown
Liquidity in 2021 info
1.16
Months of cash in 2021 info
3.6
Fringe rate in 2021 info
18%
Funding sources info
Assets & liabilities info
Partners for Youth with Disabilities
Revenue & expensesFiscal Year: Jul 01 - Jun 30
SOURCE: IRS Form 990
Partners for Youth with Disabilities
Balance sheetFiscal Year: Jul 01 - Jun 30
SOURCE: IRS Form 990
The balance sheet gives a snapshot of the financial health of an organization at a particular point in time. An organization's total assets should generally exceed its total liabilities, or it cannot survive long, but the types of assets and liabilities must also be considered. For instance, an organization's current assets (cash, receivables, securities, etc.) should be sufficient to cover its current liabilities (payables, deferred revenue, current year loan, and note payments). Otherwise, the organization may face solvency problems. On the other hand, an organization whose cash and equivalents greatly exceed its current liabilities might not be putting its money to best use.
Fiscal Year: Jul 01 - Jun 30
SOURCE: IRS Form 990
This snapshot of Partners for Youth with Disabilities’s financial trends applies Nonprofit Finance Fund® analysis to data hosted by GuideStar. While it highlights the data that matter most, remember that context is key – numbers only tell part of any story.
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Business model indicators
Profitability info | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 |
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Unrestricted surplus (deficit) before depreciation | $155,484 | -$28,933 | -$18,267 | -$152,704 | -$98,523 |
As % of expenses | 11.0% | -1.5% | -1.0% | -8.8% | -5.6% |
Unrestricted surplus (deficit) after depreciation | $154,754 | -$31,120 | -$21,881 | -$155,936 | -$102,255 |
As % of expenses | 10.9% | -1.6% | -1.2% | -9.0% | -5.8% |
Revenue composition info | |||||
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Total revenue (unrestricted & restricted) | $1,749,303 | $1,825,732 | $1,681,350 | $1,639,577 | $1,673,682 |
Total revenue, % change over prior year | 54.1% | 4.4% | -7.9% | -2.5% | 2.1% |
Program services revenue | 1.2% | 0.9% | 1.2% | 2.5% | 6.1% |
Membership dues | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
Investment income | 0.0% | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.0% |
Government grants | 48.0% | 64.2% | 68.4% | 56.9% | 47.8% |
All other grants and contributions | 50.7% | 34.8% | 30.1% | 40.5% | 45.7% |
Other revenue | 0.0% | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.5% |
Expense composition info | |||||
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Total expenses before depreciation | $1,414,852 | $1,913,333 | $1,814,592 | $1,733,506 | $1,772,149 |
Total expenses, % change over prior year | 26.5% | 35.2% | -5.2% | -4.5% | 2.2% |
Personnel | 74.3% | 66.4% | 60.5% | 68.0% | 74.2% |
Professional fees | 8.2% | 10.2% | 10.8% | 11.4% | 10.5% |
Occupancy | 5.3% | 3.5% | 3.7% | 3.5% | 2.6% |
Interest | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.2% |
Pass-through | 2.8% | 12.6% | 16.1% | 10.3% | 4.3% |
All other expenses | 9.4% | 7.3% | 8.9% | 6.7% | 8.2% |
Full cost components (estimated) info | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 |
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Total expenses (after depreciation) | $1,415,582 | $1,915,520 | $1,818,206 | $1,736,738 | $1,775,881 |
One month of savings | $117,904 | $159,444 | $151,216 | $144,459 | $147,679 |
Debt principal payment | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
Fixed asset additions | $2,280 | $12,881 | $0 | $0 | $7,739 |
Total full costs (estimated) | $1,535,766 | $2,087,845 | $1,969,422 | $1,881,197 | $1,931,299 |
Capital structure indicators
Liquidity info | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 |
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Months of cash | 3.2 | 2.6 | 2.0 | 3.5 | 3.6 |
Months of cash and investments | 3.2 | 2.6 | 2.0 | 3.5 | 3.6 |
Months of estimated liquid unrestricted net assets | 4.1 | 2.8 | 2.8 | 1.9 | 1.1 |
Balance sheet composition info | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 |
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Cash | $379,859 | $414,319 | $300,815 | $510,266 | $535,117 |
Investments | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
Receivables | $494,864 | $387,602 | $404,692 | $267,797 | $370,068 |
Gross land, buildings, equipment (LBE) | $14,139 | $18,680 | $18,680 | $16,997 | $24,731 |
Accumulated depreciation (as a % of LBE) | 86.6% | 32.6% | 51.9% | 66.2% | 60.6% |
Liabilities (as a % of assets) | 14.3% | 19.7% | 27.8% | 45.2% | 63.6% |
Unrestricted net assets | $485,243 | $454,123 | $432,242 | $276,306 | $174,051 |
Temporarily restricted net assets | $284,635 | $225,967 | $110,992 | N/A | N/A |
Permanently restricted net assets | $0 | $0 | $0 | N/A | N/A |
Total restricted net assets | $284,635 | $225,967 | $110,992 | $169,767 | $169,823 |
Total net assets | $769,878 | $680,090 | $543,234 | $446,073 | $343,874 |
Key data checks
Key data checks info | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 |
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Material data errors | No | No | No | No | No |
Operations
The people, governance practices, and partners that make the organization tick.
Documents
Board President
Ms. Lynn Gonsalves
Number of employees
Source: IRS Form 990
Partners for Youth with Disabilities
Officers, directors, trustees, and key employeesSOURCE: IRS Form 990
Compensation data
There are no highest paid employees recorded for this organization.
Partners for Youth with Disabilities
Board of directorsas of 02/13/2023
Board of directors data
Ms. Lynn Gonsalves
Stephen Mastrocola
Retired - Ernst & Young
George Recck
Babson College
Lynn Gonsalves
Joseph DeAngelis
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Andrew E. Bentley
Partner (Taxation), PricewaterhouseCoopers
Jay S. Krish
Vice President of Governance, Risk, and Compliance Technology; State Street Corporation
Dianne Lescinskas
Program Development Manager, Massachusetts Autism Commission
Lori Andrews
Retired - SVP, Global Total Rewards, Liberty Mutual Insurance
J. Van Gurley
President & CEO, Metron, Inc.
Jean M. Joy
Retired – Wolf & Company, P. C. Shareholder Audit Partner and Director of Professional Practice
Pam McIntyre
Managing Director, Liberty Mutual Insurance Company
Mark Rocca
Partner, EY, Assurance Services
Manu Thakral
Assistant Professor, College of Nursing & Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts Boston
Board leadership practices
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Board orientation and education
Does the board conduct a formal orientation for new board members and require all board members to sign a written agreement regarding their roles, responsibilities, and expectations? No -
CEO oversight
Has the board conducted a formal, written assessment of the chief executive within the past year ? No -
Ethics and transparency
Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year? No -
Board composition
Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? No -
Board performance
Has the board conducted a formal, written self-assessment of its performance within the past three years? No
Organizational demographics
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Leadership
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