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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 FY2025still arriving
33
Grants FY2025still arriving
16
States reached
$746k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$12MYouth Development$6.4MEducation$519kRecreation & Sports$46kInternational$11k
02FY2025 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $42k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $196k
  • $50k–250k17 grants · $2.1M
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.4M
$67,239
Median grant
16
States reached
$40M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
YOUTH FOR CHRIST USA$746,356
NORTHERN COLORADO YFC$348,862
TACOMA YFC$321,793
CENTRAL OHIO YOUTH FOR CHRIST$240,050
WEST SOUND YFC$227,816
WEST MICHIGAN YFC$164,049
NORTHERN INDIANA YFC$156,291
SOUTH TEXAS YFC SAN ANTONIO$154,132
OMAHA YOUTH FOR CHRIST$151,500
YOUTH FOR CHRIST INTERNATIONAL$141,522
GREATER MIAMI YFC$136,800
BETHEL UNIVERSITY$130,740
DENVER AREA YFC$89,369
HEART OF ILLINOIS YOUTH FOR CHRIST$76,150
METRO MARYLAND YFC$73,550
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 28% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Omaha Youth for Christ: $158k → 12%Long Island Youth for Christ Inc: $60k → 7%SOUTH TEXAS YFC SAN ANTONIO: $154k → 16%GREATER MIAMI YFC: $137k → 15%Siouxland YFC: $65k → 13%NORTHERN INDIANA YFC: $156k → 12%BETHEL UNIVERSITY: $131k → 13%Central Indiana YFC: $111k → 16%Central Ohio YFC: $253k → 15%Greater Cleveland YFC: $111k → 17%Tacoma YFC: $433k → 9%West Sound YFC: $337k → 10%Youth for Christ Peoria Area: $79k → 14%Metro Maryland YFC: $85k → 11%OMAHA YOUTH FOR CHRIST: $152k → 12%YFC - San Antonio: $136k → 16%Greater Miami YFC: $78k → 15%Siouxland YFC: $57k → 13%YOUTH FOR CHRIST USA: $746k → 3%Northern Indiana YFC: $112k → 12%Bethel University: $122k → 13%CENTRAL INDIANA YFC: $58k → 16%Central Ohio YFC 5000 Arlington: $241k → 15%Tacoma YFC: $346k → 9%West Sound YFC: $286k → 10%Heart of Youth for Christ: $76k → 14%Metro Maryland YFC: $81k → 11%Omaha Youth for Christ: $134k → 12%YFC - San Antonio: $134k → 16%YOUTH FOR CHRIST INTERNATIONAL: $142k → 3%Youth for Christ USA: $7.6M → 8%Bethel University: $88k → 13%CENTRAL OHIO YOUTH FOR CHRIST: $240k → 15%TACOMA YFC: $322k → 9%WEST SOUND YFC: $228k → 10%HEART OF ILLINOIS YOUTH FOR CHRIST: $76k → 14%METRO MARYLAND YFC: $74k → 11%DENVER AREA YFC: $89k → 3%Youth for Christ USA: $670k → 8%Youth for Christ USA: $585k → 8%Youth for Christ USA: $306k → 8%Youth for Christ USA: $207k → 8%YFCUSA: $126k → 8%Denver Area YFC: $102k → 8%Youth for Christ International: $93k → 8%Youth for Christ International: $86k → 8%Youth for Christ International: $83k → 8%Youth for Christ International: $83k → 8%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

WA
ND
MN
IL
MI
NY
IA
IN
OH
PA
CA
CO
NE
MO
MD
AZ
KS
SC
HI
MS
AL
GA
TX
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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$18M · 34 repeat orgs$543k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +7% since the first grant, against -1% for those funded once.

34 repeat relationships: 29 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
15

Total granted

$18M
$450k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+7%
-1%

Still filing today

94%
87%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $93k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’20’21’22’23’24’25
Youth DevelopmentReligionEducationPhilanthropyOther
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

  • CO
    CENTRAL OHIO YOUTH FOR CHRIST INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $734k · revenue +39%
  • YF
    Youth for Christ International Ministries
    6× · 2020–2025 · $528k · revenue +13%
  • OY
    OMAHA YOUTH FOR CHRIST
    3× · 2023–2025 · $444k · revenue +10%

Funded once

  • GK
    GREATER KALAMAZOO YOUTH FOR CHRIST
    one grant, 2023 · $129k
  • LI
    LONG ISLAND YOUTH FOR CHRIST
    one grant, 2023 · $60k · revenue -20%
  • CD
    CAPITAL DISTRICT YOUTH FOR CHRIST INC
    one grant, 2023 · $51k · revenue -5%
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
South Central Minnesota Youth for Christ Inc

Reaching out to young people everywhere to raise up life-long followers of Jesus who lead by their godliness in lifestyle, devotion to the Word of God and prayer, passion for sharing the love of Christ, and commitment to social involvement.

Youth Development
2
Youth for Christ of Northern Ohio

Youth for christ is a non-denominational, youth-centered, christian association of churches that aims to participate in the body of christ in responsible evangelism of youth.

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3
Youth for Christ Usa Inc East Alabama Youth for Christ

Programs, training, conventions and travel to reach youth for jesus christ.

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4
Youth for Christ Inc Fayetteville Area

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…

Youth Development
5
Youth and Families for Christ Inc

Faith based youth organization.

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6
Youth for Christ of Northwest Ohio Inc

Reaches young people everywhere, working with the local church and other like-minded partners to raise up life long followers of jesus who lead by their godliness in lifestyle, devotion to the work of god, prayer, passion for sharing the…

Youth Development
7
Youth for Christ Usa Inc

Promotes life changing message of jesus christ to teens.

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8
Youth for Christ Usa Inc Grand Forks Area Youth for Christ

Grand forks area youth for christ reaches young people everywhere, working together with the local church and other like-minded partners to raise up lifelong followers of jesus who lead by their godliness in lifestyle, devotion to prayer…

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9
Youth for Christ Usa Inc Rochester Youth for Christ Inc

Change kids lives through relationships, life coaching, and a living faith in jesus christ

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10
Youth for Christ Usa Inc

Our mission is to radically love and bring hope to teens by serving weekly meals to hungry students, mentoring and equipping teen moms, providing healthy and life-giving relationships, and working with teens in the juvenile detention…

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11
Central Michigan Youth for Christ

Mission nbsp;schedule nbsp;o

Youth Development
12
Youth for Christ Montcalm Mecosta Counties Inc

Youth for Christ of Mecosta & Montcalm Counties seeks to reach young people everywhere. Working with the local church and like-minded partners to raise up followers of Jesus who exhibit godliness in lifestyle, devotion to Gods word,…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Omaha Youth for Christ; the most unlike its peers is Crossroads School Inc. 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

51 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 51 of the 54 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
50/51
Grantees still filing
25/51
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

YOUTH FOR CHRISTUSA INC: $10,224,677 · Youth DevelopmentYOUTH FOR CHRISTUSA INCYOUTH FOR CHRISTTACOMA AREA INC: $1,100,535 · Youth DevelopmentYOUTH FOR CHRISTTACOMA AREA INCCENTRAL OHIO YOUTH FOR CHRIST INC: $734,413 · Youth Development+17 more: $2,535,617 · Youth Development+17 moreWEST SOUND YOUTH FOR CHRIST: $850,954 · OtherWEST SOUND YOUTH F…SOUTH TEXAS YOUTH FOR CHRIST: $423,882 · OtherSOUTH TEXAS YOUTH …METRO-MARYLAND YOUTH FOR CHRIST INC: $239,512 · OtherMETRO-MARYLAND YOU…YOUTH FOR CHRIST - PEORIA AREA: $231,200 · OtherYOUTH FOR CHRIST -…GREATER MIAMI YOUTH FOR CHRIST INC: $215,100 · OtherGREATER MIAMI YOUT…Youth For Christ Inc: $213,935 · OtherYouth For Christ I…NORTH IOWA YOUTH FOR CHRIST: $197,950 · OtherNORTH IOWA YOUTH F…GREATER KALAMAZOO YOUTH FOR CHRIST: $129,318 · Other+18 more: $578,172 · Other+18 moreYouth for Christ International Ministries: $527,610 · ReligionEast-West Ministries International: $143,500 · ReligionYOUTH FOUNDATION & CENTER OF IV INC: $58,150 · ReligionPresence Point Inc: $30,000 · ReligionBETHEL UNIVERSITY INC: $340,835 · EducationTaylor University: $96,500 · EducationCROSSROADS SCHOOL INC: $82,000 · EducationFoundation for the Nations USA: $11,247 · Philanthropy
Youth Development$14,595,242Other$3,080,023Religion$759,260Education$519,335Philanthropy$11,247

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetYOUTH FOR CHRISTUSA INC: $10,224,677 over 7y, 52% of budgetYOUTH FOR CHRISTTACOMA AREA INC: $1,100,535 over 3y, 42% of budgetWEST SOUND YOUTH FOR CHRIST: $850,954 over 3y, 54% of budgetCENTRAL OHIO YOUTH FOR CHRIST INC: $734,413 over 3y, 6.6% of budgetYouth for Christ International Ministries: $527,610 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetGrand Rapids Youth for Christ Inc: $458,801 over 3y, 8.1% of budgetOMAHA YOUTH FOR CHRIST: $444,200 over 3y, 4.9% of budgetSOUTH TEXAS YOUTH FOR CHRIST: $423,882 over 3y, 11% of budgetNORTHERN COLORADO YOUTH FOR CHRIST INC: $416,762 over 5y, 25% of budgetBETHEL UNIVERSITY INC: $340,835 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetYOUTH FOR CHRIST OF NORTHERN INDIANA INC: $297,991 over 3y, 6.5% of budgetMETRO-MARYLAND YOUTH FOR CHRIST INC: $239,512 over 3y, 5.3% of budgetYOUTH FOR CHRIST - PEORIA AREA: $231,200 over 3y, 6.0% of budgetDenver Area Youth For Christ Inc: $223,797 over 3y, 5.5% of budgetGREATER MIAMI YOUTH FOR CHRIST INC: $215,100 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetYouth For Christ Inc: $213,935 over 3y, 10% of budgetNORTH IOWA YOUTH FOR CHRIST: $197,950 over 3y, 4.6% of budgetFresnoMadera Youth For Christ Inc: $197,046 over 3y, 5.6% of budgetSIOUXLAND YOUTH FOR CHRIST: $172,669 over 3y, 7.1% of budgetGREATER CLEVELAND YOUTH FOR CHRIST INC: $120,000 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetSTATELINE YOUTH FOR CHRIST: $96,725 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetTaylor University: $96,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCROSSROADS SCHOOL INC: $82,000 over 3y, 16% of budgetYOUTH FOR CHRISTKALAMAZOO AREA: $67,239 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetLONG ISLAND YOUTH FOR CHRIST: $59,586 over 1y, 8.5% of budgetYOUTH FOUNDATION & CENTER OF IV INC: $58,150 over 2y, 9.7% of budgetMETRO-PITTSBURGH YOUTH FOR CHRIST CAMPUS LIFE INC: $57,500 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetCAPITAL DISTRICT YOUTH FOR CHRIST INC: $50,750 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $46,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetELEVATE PHOENIX: $44,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetYOUTH FOR CHRIST USA INC: $41,346 over 2y, 5.7% of budgetYOUTH FOR CHRIST HOUSTON: $39,400 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetYOUTH FOR CHRIST USA INC HAWAII: $32,400 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetPresence Point Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 8.1% of budgetGREATER TUSCALOOSA YOUTH FOR CHRIST: $29,900 over 1y, 9.0% of budgetPalm Beach County Youth For Christ Inc: $25,211 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetYOUTH FOR CHRIST USA INC MESABI RANGE YOUTH FOR CHRIST INC: $22,010 over 1y, 22% of budgetSUNCOAST YOUTH FOR CHRIST INC: $21,700 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetMETRO ATLANTA YOUTH FOR CHRIST INC: $17,050 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetEAST MICHIGAN YOUTH FOR CHRIST: $16,835 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetHEARTLAND YOUTH FOR CHRIST INC: $15,476 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetSOUTHEAST NEBRASKA YOUTH FOR CHRIST: $13,581 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetFoundation for the Nations USA: $11,247 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetYouth For Christ-Wichita Inc: $11,050 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetCHRISTIAN LEADERSHIP ALLIANCE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetNorthern Plains Youth for Christ: $9,850 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetITASCA YOUTH FOR CHRIST: $7,700 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetPLATTE VALLEY AREA YOUTH FOR CHRIST: $7,616 over 1y, 3.2% 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.

Youth for Christusa I…Thrivent Financial fo…The Signatry Charitab…Natl Christian Charit…Samuel E and Mary W T…Haushalter Family Fou…Christian Community F…Servant FoundationRenaissance Charitabl…Raymond James Charita…Thrivent Charitable I…American Endowment Fo…
Youth for Christusa IncCO41× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Youth for Christ Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Youth for Christ Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    4get no government money at all
    10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    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 Youth for Christ Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Youth for Christ Foundation 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 54 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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