· Public charity
Young Life
YOUNG LIFE is a ministry to help adolescents around the world become exposed to the person of jesus christ.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 10 grants below total $12,619,010 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $20,380,337 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $7,761,327 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $123k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
- $250k+1 grant · $12M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YOUNG LIFE FOUNDATION | $12,368,599 |
| MISSION INDIA | $100,000 |
| INFAITH | $45,526 |
| HIGHLANDER PRIDE | $27,553 |
| CAMPUS MINISTRY AT GRAND RAPID | $25,000 |
| SHILOH MINISTRIES INC | $15,000 |
| TRUELA CHURCH | $10,000 |
| YOUTH WITH A MISSION | $9,373 |
| BAPTIST CHAPEL | $9,000 |
| THE GOOD CHURCH | $8,959 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–23, $124k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 69% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
Grants abroad, by region — $7.7M on the FY2025 return
Schedule F, as filed: 8 regions, $6.8M to organizations and $900k to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: YOUTH MINISTRY · TUITION, ROOM & BOARD
Stated purpose: YOUTH MINISTRY · TUITION, ROOM & BOARD
Stated purpose: YOUTH MINISTRY
Stated purpose: YOUTH MINISTRY · TUITION, ROOM & BOARD
Stated purpose: YOUTH MINISTRY · TUITION, ROOM & BOARD
Stated purpose: YOUTH MINISTRY · TUITION, ROOM & BOARD
Stated purpose: YOUTH MINISTRY
Stated purpose: YOUTH MINISTRY
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +14% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $162k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- MCMILITARY COMMUNITY YOUTH MINISTRIES4× · 2019–2022 · $212k · revenue +77%
- IINFAITH4× · 2017–2020 · $156k · revenue +8%
- YMYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE SUNCOAST INC3× · 2021–2023 · $68k · revenue +6%
Funded once
- SMStillwater Ministriesone grant, 2024 · $73k · revenue -82% · 36% of their budget
- CSCHILD SPONSORSHIP PROGRAM INCone grant, 2019 · $52k · revenue -30%
- BCBEACON CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERone grant, 2023 · $31k · revenue +2%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…
The mission of peregrine ministries is to guide and inspire men on their life journey, to help them pass on a life-giving legacy.
To develop youth servant leaders who will share the message of jesus christ with their peers.
Providing Christian conferences, summer camps, internship programs,and ministry mentorship for youth across the United States.
Equipping leaders to plant dynamic churches worldwide.
As part of the body of Christ, to see that every young person in every people group in every nation has the opportunity to make an informed decision to be a follower of Jesus Christ and become a part of the local church.
Simplifying ministry HR through education, expertise and specialized services so that churches can grow a healthy and thriving staff.
Christian development of youth and leaders
Interdenomination ministry dedicated to bringing youth into a growing relationship with jesus christ.
To put christian principles into practice through programs that build healthy spirit, mind, and body for all.
Yfc reaches young people everywhere, working together with the local church and other likeminded partners to raise up lifelong followers of jesus who lead by their godliness in lifestyle, devotion to the word of god and prayer, passion for…
Raise Up Global Ministries is committed to educating Christian leaders in communities around the world. The three programs of Raise Up equip the global church by 1 Developing biblically based interactive materials and 2 Training…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Men's Christian Association of the Suncoast Inc and the most unlike its peers is Child Sponsorship Program Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 23 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 12% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
16 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 33 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds MILITARY COMMUNITY YOUTH MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds INFAITH ↗
- Who funds CAMPUS MINISTRY AT GRAND RAPIDS INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH WITH A MISSION DENVER INC ↗
- Who funds Stillwater Ministries ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE SUNCOAST INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL DETROIT CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CHILD SPONSORSHIP PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds DADS DIVINE ALTERNATIVES FOR DADS SERVICES ↗
- Who funds YOUTH MENTORING WORLDWIDE INC ↗
- Who funds BEACON CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds REFUGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN DEVELOPMENT WORLDWIDE ↗
- Who funds HELPING HANDS MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds HELPING HANDS SUPPORT INC ↗
- Who funds ELEVATE TAMPA BAY INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Servant Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Young Life funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.