2025-07-28T10:29:54-07:00 2024-12-31 680228024 HARMON BURSTYN CPA 1012 HACIENDA DR WALNUT CREEK CA 94598 990 2024-01-01 510647928 Bay Area Young Survivors BAYA 4157913892 PO Box 190056 San Francisco CA 94119 Yara Wehbe CFO 2025-07-28 true true Harmon Burstyn P00855188 9252863522 X 2024 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z Yara Wehbe PO Box 190056 San Francisco CA 94119 631909 false X www.baysnet.org X 2007 CA Bay Area Young Survivors (BAYS) is a support and action group for people diagnosed at age forty-five or younger in the SF Bay Area who are living with breast cancer. 11 11 0 92 0 187706 631909 0 5983 0 6558 0 200247 631909 0 0 0 0 0 172132 160330 172132 160330 28115 471579 567385 1038719 0 567385 1038719 Bay Area Young Survivors (BAYS) is a support and action group for people diagnosed at age forty-five or younger in the SF Bay Area who are living with breast cancer. The goal of BAYS is to break the isolation of living with breast cancer by providing a community built on compassion, understanding, hope, and inspiration. false false 122613 Community Building: -We coordinate diverse community-building events that offer a rich environment to support the emotional needs of our members. Examples include-Physical challenge events designed to help us get our bodies back (hikes, kayaking and paddle boarding, etc.) -Educational events on a variety of cancer-related topics hosted by doctors and other health professionals -Social events such as holiday gatherings and clothing swaps where we share wigs, medical garments, breast prostheses, and clothes for our changing bodies (we do not underestimate the power of something new to help feel better, especially with the extreme body changes that occur during treatment) -The construction of a BAYS memorial garden where our community can gather to honor and remember the members weve lost.Social and Educational Events-Over 303 BAYS-MITCmembers attended online and in person social and community building events: 10 members (and 8 volunteers)attended Garden Volunteer days, 5 members participated in Warriors basketball Cancer Awareness night, 15 membersattended a clothing swap, 6 members attended a member-hosted BAYS community cooking class, around 24 members attended SF Pride, 50 members joined our educational workshops on Lymphedema and working rights, 28 members attended a Commonweal retreat, 60 members and families attended a Barracuda Hockey game, 20 members attended a yoga fundraiser and 4 members attended a Nihonmachi Street fair. Events may have had overlapping attendees. Memorial Garden-The Garden is in the planningand construction stage in Golden Gate Park(SF) - the groundbreaking occurred in August (73 members and families attended). 25 members have volunteered their time over the year and working with SF parks planning department, developing designs, overseeing execution, fundraising, organizing events, conducting outreach with families of deceased, updating the website, and more. 14545 Financial Assistance: We created the BAYS Steps Up Fund to offer financial assistance to our members who struggle financially while undergoing treatment and beyond. We also offer scholarships to attend cancer-related scientific and support conferences and/or grants for self care.21 members received financial assistance.13 members received financial assistance to attend Commonweal Cancer treatments.3 members received financial assistance to attend BACC Conference. 10262 Support Services: -We offer peer- and professionally- led support group meetings (with separate additional support groups for our members with metastatic disease who are facing unique end-of-life issues)-We also offer unstructured support groups over coffee or a meal-We host an online network for communication and virtual support. -We offer writing workshops and coordinate additional avenues to share written expression through public readings and publications.Online Support Groups-We offered 59 support groups from January-December 2024. a) 2-3 monthly support groups via Zoom/Google Meet with an average attendance of 4-5 per support groupb) We also did 4 in person support groups and we estimate 5 attendees per support group. c) We also offered 2 monthly support groups via Zoom for our MITC members (we estimate 4-5 people attended each of the 24 online sessions)Unstructured support-50 members attended unstructured support meet-ups (e.g., coffee, lunches)Hosted discussion forum-1036 members of our online discussion and support forumWriting Workshops-We hosted 6 writing workshops with 7-10 members attending eachMITC Unstructured Support Social and Educational Events-Approximately 25 MITC members attended in-person social and community buildingevents (e.g., Luncheons, tea, and dinners). 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Any needed changes are made prior to filing. Form 990, Part VI, Section C, Line 18 Form 990 is available at irs.gov and guidestar.org. Form 990, Part VI, Section C, Line 19 Upon request.