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Young People's Church of the Air Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$892k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
29
Grants FY2025
35
Organizations funded FY2024
3%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$25,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$60,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 35
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
15
Total assets, FY2025
$3.6M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 3% of the organizations Young People's Church of the Air Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
ReligionEducationHuman ServicesCivil RightsPublic BenefitArts & CultureOther
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 arriving29$892k0%
FY202435$1.1M3%
FY202335$1.2M9%
FY202231$798k0%
FY202133$812k27%
FY202025$511k16%
FY201924$135k96%
FY20182$56k0%
100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$2.7MEducation$1.2MCivil Rights$323kHuman Services$295kCrime & Legal$282kPublic Benefit$213kInternational$135kHealth$116kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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IL
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MI
NY
OH
PA
CA
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VA
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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Alliance Defending Freedom$322,50070%
Southfield Christian School$305,0005n/a
Longmont Christian School$280,00054%
Family Talk Action Corporation$213,0006n/a
The Living God Ministries Inc$193,0007n/a
Leading the Way$192,0007n/a
Love Worth Finding Ministries Inc$181,00071%
The Cambridge School of Dallas$180,00042%
Patrick Henry College$179,00050%
Truth for Life$177,00070%
Show all 34 grantees
All grantees of Young People's Church of the Air Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Alliance Defending Freedom$322,50070%
Southfield Christian School$305,0005n/a
Longmont Christian School$280,00054%
Family Talk Action Corporation$213,0006n/a
The Living God Ministries Inc$193,0007n/a
Leading the Way$192,0007n/a
Love Worth Finding Ministries Inc$181,00071%
The Cambridge School of Dallas$180,00042%
Patrick Henry College$179,00050%
Truth for Life$177,00070%
Home School Legal Defense Association$165,00050%
Real Presence Radio$154,00071%
St Clair County Sav-A-Life Inc$150,950627%
Hope for Today Ministries$138,0007n/a
The Urban Alternative$134,00060%
Telling the Truth Inc$129,00062%
Lucas Christian Academy$125,00031%
National Religious Broadcasters$118,00071%
Liberty Ministries$116,50070%
Sonrays Ministries Inc$115,50077%
Chosen People Ministries Inc$113,0007n/a
Abortion Recovery America (Formerly Abortion Recovery Alabama)$109,000619%
Water Street Ministries$107,00060%
The Jerusalem Connection$97,00055%
The City School$85,50070%
Christian Central Academy$85,00031%
Childcare Worldwide$58,00031%
Mercy Ships International$52,20020%
Franconia Mennonite Camp Associatio$50,00011%
Central Detroit Christian Community Development Corporation$45,00041%
Focus on the Family$33,5003n/a
Samaritan's Purse$25,00010%
Ravi Zacharias International Ministries$10,0001n/a
Crossworld$1,3001n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.1M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Young People's Church of the Air Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 25 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAlliance Defending Freedom: $322,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetLongmont Christian School: $280,000 over 5y, 4.0% of budgetLove Worth Finding Ministries Inc: $181,000 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetThe Cambridge School of Dallas: $180,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetPatrick Henry College: $179,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTruth for Life: $177,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetHome School Legal Defense Association: $165,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetReal Presence Radio: $154,000 over 7y, 1.4% of budgetSt Clair County Sav-A-Life Inc: $150,950 over 6y, 27% of budgetThe Urban Alternative: $134,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetTelling the Truth Inc: $129,000 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetLucas Christian Academy: $125,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetNational Religious Broadcasters: $118,000 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetLiberty Ministries: $116,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetSonrays Ministries Inc: $115,500 over 7y, 7.0% of budgetAbortion Recovery America (Formerly Abortion Recovery Alabama): $109,000 over 6y, 19% of budgetWater Street Ministries: $107,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetThe Jerusalem Connection: $97,000 over 5y, 4.7% of budgetThe City School: $85,500 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetChristian Central Academy: $85,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetChildcare Worldwide: $58,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetMercy Ships International: $52,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFranconia Mennonite Camp Associatio: $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCentral Detroit Christian Community Development Corporation: $45,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetSamaritan's Purse: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 25.

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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.

Servant FoundationKS17.2× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Servant Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vjs Charitable Private Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Shell USA Company Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc

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 Young People's Church of the Air Inc

How much does Young People's Church of the Air Inc give?
Young People's Church of the Air Inc reported 29 grants totaling $892,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 35 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Young People's Church of the Air Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (48%), Education (22%), Civil Rights (6%).
Who are Young People's Church of the Air Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Alliance Defending Freedom ($323k), Southfield Christian School ($305k), Longmont Christian School ($280k).
Does Young People's Church of the Air Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 3% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Young People's Church of the Air Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Young People's Church of the Air Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Servant Foundation, Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc, Vjs Charitable Private Foundation.
Where is Young People's Church of the Air Inc based?
Young People's Church of the Air Inc is based in PA.

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 43 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-PF 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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