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Global Teen Challenge Inc

Tjo receive and administer funds and operate exclusively for religious, charitable, scientific, literary, and educational purposes.

$1.5M
Granted FY2022
1
Grants FY2022
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States reached
$1.4M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

Youth Development$1.3MReligion$135kHealth$93kInternational$30kHousing & Shelter$14kHuman Services$5kOther$0
02FY2022 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 1 grants below total $1,401,916, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,483,315 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $81,399 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$1,401,916
Median grant
—
States reached
$2.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VARIOUS$1,401,916
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY21–21, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%ADULT & TEEN CHALLENGE OF ST LOUIS: $5k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
MI
NY
OR
CA
CO
MO
LA
GA
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

27%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$804k · 4 repeat orgs$2.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2022, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
11

Total granted

$804k
$757k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+19%

Still filing today

50%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.4M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21’22
HealthYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterHuman ServicesOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • TC
    TEEN CHALLENGE OF FLORIDA INC
    5× · 2017–2021 · $612k · revenue +18%
  • GT
    Global Teen Challenge
    3× · 2017–2019 · $70k
  • TC
    TEEN CHALLENGE INTERNATIONAL NEOSHO MO TEEN CHALLENGE OF THE FOUR STATES
    5× · 2017–2021 · $65k · revenue +38%

Funded once

  • TC
    TEEN CHALLENGE INTERNATIONAL PACIFIC NORTHWEST CENTERS
    one grant, 2021 · $525k
  • TC
    Teen Challenge de Puerto Rico Inc
    one grant, 2021 · $67k · revenue +13%
  • GC
    GENERAL COUNCIL OF THE ASSEMBLIES OF GOD
    one grant, 2017 · $63k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Teen Challenge of the Midwest Inc

Drug and alcohol addiction recovery program that is desinged to help young men find a new way of living that includes an introduction to christian principles.

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2
Teen Challenge Inc

The religious organization's mission is to help individuals who have life-controlling addictions and initiate the discipleship process to the point where the individual can function as a productive christian member of society.

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3
Teen Challenge of the Mid-South Inc

The mission of teen challenge of the mid-south is to provide men and women over the age of 18 a christ-centered opportunity to overcome substance abuse or other life-controlling issues through residential long-term spiritual and clinical…

Health
4
Tri-State Teen Challenge

A 12-15 month residential program to help men ages 18-64 become free from life controlling addictions.

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5
Teen Challenge of Baltimore Inc

The mission of teen challenge of baltimore is to provide individuals and their families with an effective and comprehensive faith-based solution to substanceabuse and life-controlling issues in order for them to become productivemembers of…

Health
6
Minnesota Teen Challenge Inc

Our mission is to assist teens and adults in gaining freedom from chemical addictions and other life controlling problems by addressing their physical, emotional, and spiritual needs.

Health
7
Teen Challenge of the Midlands Inc

To rehabilitate young adults afflicted with a variety of life altering addictions through counseling and teaching

Health
8
Teen Challenge-Adult Centers of Texas Inc

Drug rehabilitation of men and women through christian discipleship and training.

Health
9
Northern Appalachian Teen Challenge Inc

None

Health
10
His Hope Teen Challenge

His Hope Teen Challenge offers hope to individuals struggling with addiction through support groups, outreach programs, missional recovery homes, and a referral program.

Human Services
11
Adult & Teen Challenge of New Inc

A faith-based residential recovery program to help individuals attain freedom form chemical addictions by addressing their spiritual, physical and emotional needs.

Health
12
Youth Challenge of New Jersey Inc

Substance abuse treatment

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Teen Challenge of St Louis Inc; the most unlike its peers is Lift Up America. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 16 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
8/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VARIOUS: $1,401,916 · OtherVARIOUSTEEN CHALLENGE OF FLORIDA INC: $612,285 · OtherTEEN CHALLENGE OF FLORIDA INCTEEN CHALLENGE INTERNATIONAL PACIFIC NORTHWEST CENTERS: $525,000 · OtherTEEN CHALLENGE INTERNATIONAL PACIFIC NORTHWEST CENTERS+7 more: $245,228 · Other+7 moreTEEN CHALLENGE INTERNATIONAL NEOSHO MO TEEN CHALLENGE OF THE FOUR STATES: $64,600 · HealthGREATER NEW ORLEANS TEEN CHALLENGE: $20,000 · HealthHONEY LAKE CLINIC INC: $8,000 · HealthTeen Challenge de Puerto Rico Inc: $67,000 · Youth DevelopmentA BETTER WAY MINISTRIES INC: $13,650 · Housing & ShelterTEEN CHALLENGE OF ST LOUIS INC: $5,000 · Human Services
Other$2,784,429Health$92,600Youth Development$67,000Housing & Shelter$13,650Human Services$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTEEN CHALLENGE OF FLORIDA INC: $612,285 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetTeen Challenge de Puerto Rico Inc: $67,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetTEEN CHALLENGE INTERNATIONAL NEOSHO MO TEEN CHALLENGE OF THE FOUR STATES: $64,600 over 5y, 3.8% of budgetLIFT UP AMERICA: $30,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetGREATER NEW ORLEANS TEEN CHALLENGE: $20,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetA BETTER WAY MINISTRIES INC: $13,650 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTeen Challenge Illinois: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHONEY LAKE CLINIC INC: $8,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTEEN CHALLENGE OF ST LOUIS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetADULT & TEEN CHALLENGE USA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Natl Christian Charit…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Natl Christian Charitable Fdn IncGA12.5× affinity10 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Global Teen Challenge Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Global Teen Challenge Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Global Teen Challenge Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Global Teen Challenge Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 16 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2022, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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