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Youth for Christusa Inc

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 the word of god and prayer, passion for sharing the love of christ, and commitment to social involvement.

$361k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$56k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

International$1.7MReligion$1.0MYouth Development$908kEnvironment$15k
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 11 grants below total $242,567 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $361,288 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $118,721 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 $10k4 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $162k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $56k
$18,300
Median grant
10
States reached
$23M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
YFC MONTCALM MECOSTA COUNTIES$55,601
YFC WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA$43,078
OKLAHOMA CITY YFC$40,000
YFC CAPE COD MA$30,000
YFC NORTHERN NEW MEXICO$20,370
WEST MICHIGAN YOUTH FOR CHRIST (USA)$18,300
YFC INTERNATIONAL$10,701
YFC ALASKA$7,092
MISSISSIPPI GULF COAST YFC$6,400
YFC SACRAMENTO$5,525
YOUTH FOR CHRIST MIAMI & BROWARD$5,500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 28% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%YFC CAPE COD MA: $30k → 8%Omaha YFC: $19k → 12%Head of the Lakes: $7k → 15%Missoula YFC: $15k → 9%YFC Sacramento: $10k → 16%TulareKings Counties YFC: $10k → 18%Dare to Serve: $30k → 8%YFC Houston: $155k → 10%Oklahoma YFC: $40k → 13%Oklahoma City YFC: $20k → 16%Palm Beach County YFC: $11k → 11%Hope Signs: $13k → 14%West Michigan Youth For Christ (USA): $29k → 11%YFC MONTCALM MECOSTA COUNTIES: $56k → 15%Badgerland YFC (USA): $8k → 9%Rogue Valley YFC: $12k → 13%OutDoor Mission Camp: $15k → 12%Cadence International: $70k → 8%Young Life: $25k → 9%YFC Northern Indiana: $9k → 12%Central Indiana YFC: $14k → 16%Central Ohio YFC: $7k → 15%Spokane YFC: $10k → 12%South Pointe YFC: $44k → 14%Stateline YFC: $8k → 15%Central Maryland YFC (USA): $10k → 12%Omaha YFC: $16k → 12%OKLAHOMA CITY YFC: $40k → 13%Palm Beach County YFC: $9k → 11%West Michigan Youth For Christ (USA): $19k → 11%YFC Montcalm Mecosta Counties: $28k → 15%YFC WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA: $43k → 12%Youth for Christ International: $1.6M → 8%Military Community Youth Ministries: $7k → 9%Central Ohio YFC: $8k → 15%Spokane YFC: $10k → 12%WEST MICHIGAN YOUTH FOR CHRIST (USA): $18k → 11%YFC Western North Carolina: $34k → 12%Youth for Christ International: $98k → 8%Young Life: $7k → 9%West Michigan YFC: $12k → 11%Youth for Christ International: $61k → 8%West Michigan YFC: $10k → 11%Youth for Christ International: $42k → 8%YFC Foundation: $21k → 8%YFC Foundation: $21k → 8%YFC Foundation: $12k → 8%Denver Area YFC: $8k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.0M · 17 repeat orgs$612k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +10% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

17 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
28

Total granted

$3.0M
$571k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%
0%

Still filing today

88%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $42k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Youth DevelopmentReligionEnvironmentOther

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

  • YF
    Youth for Christ International Ministries
    8× · 2017–2025 · $2.2M · revenue +196%
  • YF
    YOUTH FOR CHRIST FOUNDATION
    5× · 2017–2024 · $198k · revenue ×43
  • OY
    OKC YOUTH FOR CHRIST INC
    3× · 2017–2025 · $100k · revenue +24%

Funded once

  • YF
    YOUTH FOR CHRIST HOUSTON
    one grant, 2024 · $155k · 30% of their budget
  • CI
    CADENCE INTERNATIONAL
    one grant, 2020 · $70k · revenue -12%
  • YF
    YOUTH FOR CHRIST SOUTHERN INDIANA
    one grant, 2024 · $62k · 29% of their budget

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

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 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
4
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
5
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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6
Northern Plains Youth for Christ

YFC reaches young people everywhere, together with the local church and other likeminded partners to raise up followers of Jesus who lead by their godliness in lifestyle, devotion for sharing the love of Christ and commitment to social…

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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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Youth and Families for Christ Inc

Faith based youth organization.

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Siouxland Youth for Christ

To provide youth ministry services to youth in the siouxland area.

Youth Development
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Youth Conference Ministries Inc

To develop youth servant leaders who will share the message of jesus christ with their peers.

Youth Development
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Platte Valley Area Youth for Christ

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
12
Youth for Christ - Peoria Area

The mission of youth for christ - peoria area is to communicate the life-changing message of jesus christ to every young person.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Youth for Christ of Northern Indiana Inc and the most unlike its peers is Environmental Action Community of Wnc. 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 72 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%0%<5yr15%8%5–10yr21%3%10–20yr17%5%20–35yr12%14%35–55yr13%70%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%0%<5yr15%2%5–10yr21%0%10–20yr17%70%20–35yr12%4%35–55yr13%24%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/48
the rest of the field
13%
4,367/33,369

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.

04the grantee network

42 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 42 of the 48 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
41/42
Grantees still filing
21/42
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Youth for Christ International Ministries — $2,192,151 · ReligionYouth for Christ International MinistriesYOUTH FOR CHRIST FOUNDATION — $197,925 · OtherYOUTH FOR CHRIST FOUNDATIONYOUTH FOR CHRIST HOUSTON — $155,375 · OtherYOUTH FOR CHRIST HOUSTONOKC YOUTH FOR CHRIST INC — $100,000 · OtherOKC YOUTH FOR CHRIST INCYOUTH FOR CHRIST MONTCALM MECOSTA — $83,851 · OtherYOUTH FOR CHRIST MONTCALM MECOSTAYouth for Christ Western NC Inc — $77,278 · OtherYouth for Christ Western NC IncCADENCE INTERNATIONAL — $70,000 · OtherCADENCE INTERNATIONALYOUTH FOR CHRIST SOUTHERN INDIANA — $62,026 · OtherYOUTH FOR CHRIST SOUTHERN INDIANASouth Pointe Youth for Christ — $43,512 · OtherYOUTH FOR CHRIST USA INC — $39,720 · Other+22 more — $261,541 · Other+22 moreGrand Rapids Youth for Christ Inc — $88,105 · Youth DevelopmentGrand Rap…OMAHA YOUTH FOR CHRIST — $34,177 · Youth DevelopmentOMAHA YOU…YOUNG LIFE — $31,829 · Youth DevelopmentYOUNG LIF…DARE TO SERVE — $30,000 · Youth DevelopmentDARE TO S…Denver Area Youth For Christ Inc — $29,148 · Youth DevelopmentDenver Ar…SUNCOAST YOUTH FOR CHRIST INC — $22,871 · Youth DevelopmentSUNCOAST …GREATER MISSOULA YOUTH FOR CHRIST — $15,110 · Youth DevelopmentCENTRAL OHIO YOUTH FOR CHRIST INC — $15,106 · Youth DevelopmentYOUTH 71FIVE MINISTRIES — $12,000 · Youth Development+6 more — $40,418 · Youth Development+6 moreENVIRONMENTAL ACTION COMMUNITY OF WNC — $15,000 · Environment
Religion$2,192,151Other$1,091,228Youth Development$318,764Environment$15,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetYouth for Christ International Ministries — $2,192,151 over 8y, 14% of budgetYOUTH FOR CHRIST FOUNDATION — $197,925 over 5y, 12% of budgetYOUTH FOR CHRIST HOUSTON — $155,375 over 1y, 30% of budgetOKC YOUTH FOR CHRIST INC — $100,000 over 3y, 4.7% of budgetGrand Rapids Youth for Christ Inc — $88,105 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetYouth for Christ Western NC Inc — $77,278 over 2y, 34% of budgetCADENCE INTERNATIONAL — $70,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetYOUTH FOR CHRIST SOUTHERN INDIANA — $62,026 over 1y, 29% of budgetSouth Pointe Youth for Christ — $43,512 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetOMAHA YOUTH FOR CHRIST — $34,177 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetYOUNG LIFE — $31,829 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDARE TO SERVE — $30,000 over 1y, 35% of budgetDenver Area Youth For Christ Inc — $29,148 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetSUNCOAST YOUTH FOR CHRIST INC — $22,871 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetYOUTH FOR CHRIST ALASKA INC — $20,636 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetPalm Beach County Youth For Christ Inc — $20,050 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetYOUTH FOR CHRIST - SPOKANE — $19,745 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetNORTH IOWA YOUTH FOR CHRIST — $16,590 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetYOUTH FOR CHRIST SACRAMENTO — $15,525 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCENTRAL OHIO YOUTH FOR CHRIST INC — $15,106 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetYouth For Christ Inc — $13,600 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetYouth for Christ of Polk County Inc — $12,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetCENTRAL MARYLAND YOUTH FOR CHRIST INC — $10,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetYOUTH FOR CHRIST USA INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetYOUTH FOR CHRIST OF NORTHERN INDIANA INC — $8,950 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBADGERLAND YOUTH FOR CHRIST INC — $7,850 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetSTATELINE YOUTH FOR CHRIST — $7,657 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetYOUTH FOR CHRISTKALAMAZOO AREA — $7,276 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMILITARY COMMUNITY YOUTH MINISTRIES — $7,115 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHEAD OF THE LAKES YOUTH FOR CH — $6,980 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetYOUTH FOR CHRISTTACOMA AREA INC — $6,961 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMISSISSIPPI GULF COAST YOUTH FOR CHRIST INC — $6,400 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSeattle Area Youth for Christ — $6,248 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetGREATER LANSING YOUTH FOR CHRIST — $6,028 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetBLUEWATER THUMB YOUTH FOR CHRIST — $6,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetYOUTH FOR CHRIST USA INC — $5,950 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetGREATER GREENSBORO YOUTH FOR CHRIST INC — $5,859 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetGREATER MIAMI YOUTH FOR CHRIST INC — $5,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetYOUTH FOR CHRIST INDIAN RIVER COUNTYINC — $5,277 over 1y, 2.4% of budget
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.

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.

Youth for Christ Foun…Thrivent Financial fo…Samuel E and Mary W T…Natl Christian Charit…Servant FoundationThe Signatry Charitab…Thrivent Charitable I…Christian Community F…Vanguard Charitable E…Morgan Stanley Global…American Endowment Fo…Raymond James Charita…
Youth for Christ FoundationCO41× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Youth for Christ Foundation · Thrivent Financial for Lutherans · Samuel E and Mary W Thatcher Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Servant Foundation · The Signatry Charitable Trust · Thrivent Charitable Impact & Investing · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund

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 Youth for Christusa Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 24%
  • Youth 71FIVE Ministries — 24% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Youth for Christusa Inc?

Find your warmest path to Youth for Christusa Inc 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 48 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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