Colorado · Public charity
Youth for Christ Foundation
YOUTH FOR CHRIST FOUNDATION supports the long term sustainability and growth of youth for christ entities in the usa and around the world.
- $3.7M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 33
- Grants FY2025
- 31
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 23%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $67,239
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $746,356
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 39
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 16
- Total assets, FY2025
- $40M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 23% of the organizations Youth for Christ Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $168k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 33 | $3.7M | 12% |
| FY2024 | 31 | $3.1M | 23% |
| FY2023 | 39 | $3.4M | 85% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $7.7M | 20% |
| FY2021 | 6 | $459k | 17% |
| FY2020 | 5 | $365k | 80% |
| FY2017 | 3 | $171k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Youth for Christusa Inc | $10,224,677 | 7 | 52% |
| Youth for Christtacoma Area Inc | $1,100,535 | 3 | 42% |
| West Sound Youth for Christ | $850,954 | 3 | 54% |
| Central Ohio Youth for Christ Inc | $734,413 | 3 | 7% |
| Youth for Christ International Ministries | $527,610 | 6 | 1% |
| Grand Rapids Youth for Christ Inc | $458,801 | 3 | 8% |
| Omaha Youth for Christ | $444,200 | 3 | 5% |
| South Texas Youth for Christ | $423,882 | 3 | 11% |
| Northern Colorado Youth for Christ Inc | $416,762 | 5 | 25% |
| Bethel University Inc | $340,835 | 3 | 0% |
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Where it is load-bearing
Youth for Christ Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 48 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Youth for Christusa Inc · Thrivent Financial for Lutherans · The Signatry Charitable Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Samuel E and Mary W Thatcher Foundation Inc · Haushalter Family Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Servant Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Thrivent Charitable Impact & Investing · American Endowment Foundation
How this is measured
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About Youth for Christ Foundation
- How much does Youth for Christ Foundation give?
- Youth for Christ Foundation reported 33 grants totaling $3,744,637 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 39 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Youth for Christ Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (63%), Youth Development (34%), Education (3%).
- Who are Youth for Christ Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Youth for Christusa Inc ($10M), Youth for Christtacoma Area Inc ($1.1M), West Sound Youth for Christ ($851k).
- Does Youth for Christ Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 23% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Youth for Christ Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Youth for Christusa Inc, Thrivent Financial for Lutherans, The Signatry Charitable Trust.
- Where is Youth for Christ Foundation based?
- Youth for Christ Foundation is based in CO.
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