How much does Young Life give?

Young Life reported 10 itemized grants totaling $12,619,010, out of $20,380,337 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 11 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Young Life fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Youth Development (99%), Religion (1%), Housing & Shelter (0%).

Who are Young Life's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Young Life Foundation ($136M), Dale Community Center ($221k), Military Community Youth Ministries ($212k).

Does Young Life fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Young Life?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Servant Foundation, Christian Community Foundation Inc, Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc.

Young Life

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· Public charity

Young Life

YOUNG LIFE is a ministry to help adolescents around the world become exposed to the person of jesus christ.

$20M

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$12M

Largest

01What it funds

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Youth Development$136MReligion$983kHousing & Shelter$200kHuman Services$180kInternational$52kHealth$31kRecreation & Sports$28kPhilanthropy$25kOther$0

02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured

The 10 grants below total $12,619,010, the rows itemized in this filing. The $20,380,337 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $7,761,327 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.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k3 grants · $27k
$10k–50k5 grants · $123k
$50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$250k+1 grant · $12M

$25,000

Median grant

States reached

$440M

Total assets

Largest grants
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

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$2.8M · 37% · 14 grants · 32 people