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Adult & Teen Challenge USA

Adult & teen challenge exists to evangelize and disciple teens and adults, trapped in addiction, through the gospel of jesus christ. As the most successful, residential, long term restoration ministry in the world, adult & teen challenge continues to build on its 60+ year ministry by serving those in need regardless of race, religion,…

$133k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
6
Itemized grants FY2025
7
Organizations funded FY2024
57%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$57k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$7,500
Largest grant, FY2025
$20,000
Organizations funded a year
4 to 16
FY2021 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
6
Total assets, FY2025
$3.3M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 57% of the organizations Adult & Teen Challenge USA funded were first-time grantees, receiving 64% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 36% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’22’23’24
HealthArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving6$57k67%
FY20247$70k57%
FY20238$78k100%
FY20224$108k75%
FY202116$165kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Education$206kYouth Development$118kHealth$82kHuman Services$35kReligion$27kInternational$10k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
WI
MI
NY
OR
WY
IA
IN
OH
NJ
CA
CO
MO
KY
VA
AZ
AR
TN
NC
OK
GA
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 25 grantees
All grantees of Adult & Teen Challenge USA by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Global Teen Challenge Inc$92,54221%
Adult & Teen Challenge of Sandhills North Carolina$35,00022%
Long Island Teen Challenge Inc$20,0001n/a
Teen Challenge of the Rocky Mountains Inc$15,0002n/a
Greater San Francisco Teen Challenge Inc$15,00011%
Cincinnati Challenge Ranch$15,00021%
Adult & Teen Challenge New England and New Jersey Inc$15,00020%
Teen Challenge of Kentucky Inc$15,00021%
Teen Challenge of the Smokies$12,00012%
Adult & Teen Challenge Virginia Inc$11,25012%
Teen Challenge of Arizona Inc$11,2501n/a
Adult and Teen Challenge Black Hills$10,000111%
World Challenge Inc$10,0001n/a
Bloom in the Dark Inc$10,00015%
Teen Challenge of the Midlands Inc$10,00010%
Teen Challenge International Pacific Northwest Centers$7,5001n/a
Adult and Teen Challenge of Arkansas Inc$7,50010%
Adult & Teen Challenge of Western Wisconsin Inc$7,50011%
Hope Homes Inc$7,5001n/a
Indiana Teen Challenge Inc$7,50010%
Teen Challenge of South Calif Inc$7,50010%
180 Ministries$7,0001n/a
Adult and Teen Challenge of Texas$5,00010%
Adult & Teen Challenge of the Greater South Inc$5,00010%
Life Challenge of Southeastern Michigan$5,00010%

Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($113k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Adult & Teen Challenge USA supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGlobal Teen Challenge Inc: $92,542 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetAdult & Teen Challenge of Sandhills North Carolina: $35,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetGreater San Francisco Teen Challenge Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetCincinnati Challenge Ranch: $15,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetAdult & Teen Challenge New England and New Jersey Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTeen Challenge of Kentucky Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetTeen Challenge of the Smokies: $12,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetAdult & Teen Challenge Virginia Inc: $11,250 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetAdult and Teen Challenge Black Hills: $10,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetBloom in the Dark Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetTeen Challenge of the Midlands Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAdult and Teen Challenge of Arkansas Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAdult & Teen Challenge of Western Wisconsin Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetIndiana Teen Challenge Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTeen Challenge of South Calif Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAdult and Teen Challenge of Texas: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAdult & Teen Challenge of the Greater South Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLife Challenge of Southeastern Michigan: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 18.

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Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Christian Community Foundation IncCO13.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Christian Community Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Good360 · Shell USA Company Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Network for Good · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Adult & Teen Challenge USA

How much does Adult & Teen Challenge USA give?
Adult & Teen Challenge USA reported 6 itemized grants totaling $57,000, out of $133,106 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 16 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
What does Adult & Teen Challenge USA fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (43%), Youth Development (25%), Health (17%).
Who are Adult & Teen Challenge USA's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Global Teen Challenge Inc ($93k), Adult & Teen Challenge of Sandhills North Carolina ($35k), Long Island Teen Challenge Inc ($20k).
Does Adult & Teen Challenge USA fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 57% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Adult & Teen Challenge USA?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Christian Community Foundation Inc, Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc, Good360.
Where is Adult & Teen Challenge USA based?
Adult & Teen Challenge USA is based in MO.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 35 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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