Young people who came 30 or more days this school year. Attendance is taken at the door every day by name; 30 days is the “regular attendee” line our after-school funder uses, so we count the same way they do.
Plates served, counted by the kitchen lead each night. Seconds count as one.
Active pairs on 1 September. A match counts from the first meeting, not the interview.
31 of the 38 matches that started at least twelve months ago were still meeting at twelve months. Ended matches are counted, not dropped.
91 of 142 regular attendees answered a six-question survey in May (response rate 64%, n = 91 of 142); 58 of those 91 said yes to this one. We report the base, not just the percentage.
Where the money goes, in one minute
Sample video. Kestrel is invented, so it has no footage of its own: the clips are free stock (Pexels), no young person is shown and no face appears, and the narration is a synthetic voice. For a real organization connectNPO uses only the photos and clips its staff send.
One afternoon, dinner every night, and what the year added up to — the same figures published on this site and in the sample Form 990: 142 regulars, 9,400 dinners, three quarters of spending on the programs.
Made by connectNPO, who built this site. Up to five short videos a year are part of the plan.
Dinner, every night. 9,400 plates this year, counted the same way as the attendance: at the door, by name.These are the figures in the 990 below; if a number here ever disagrees with the filing, the filing is right.
The last three annual returns, the audit and the IRS letter. Sample documents, each labelled as such on every page.
$60 is dinner for a week for one young person. Pick an amount; the button writes the email. The center’s own payment page would take it from there — this demo has none.
Give $60 monthly →Kestrel Youth Center is a 501(c)(3); gifts are tax-deductible as the law allows. A written acknowledgment follows every gift of any size.