Missouri · Nonprofit
ADULT & TEEN CHALLENGE USA
ADULT & TEEN CHALLENGE USA (Missouri) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $825,205 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($261,850). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.5M
- Funders on record
- 30
- Grants received
- $825k
- Net assets
- $3.1M
What Adult & Teen Challenge USA does
Mission
Adult & teen challenge exists to evangelize and disciple teens and adults, trapped in addiction, through the gospel of jesus christ. As the most successful, residential, long term restoration ministry in the world, adult & teen challenge continues to build on its 60+ year ministry by serving those in need regardless of race, religion, color, or ethnicity. The national office exists to provide strategic leadership while functioning as a visionary resource agency for adult & teen challenge centers in the usa our goal is to help adult & teen challenge centers accomplish their mission or recovery services, evangelism and discipleship for people with life controlling problems.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Learning department: atc leadership summit held in march with 54 in attendance. Hosted the flourish executive retreat in ashville, nc. Graduated 10 forge executive development program training students. Hosted 4 atc bridge webinars. Provided 11,388 online training hours to 2,239 unique learners through atc bridge lms system. Enrolled 33 staff in the ignite leadership journey for new staff; enrolled 72 staff members in fuse leadership journey for new managers/directors; printed curriculum developed for atc students, completed the final book of the finding new strength leadership series and published 6 collaborative books with our daily bread.
$528,320 spentof which $14,743 as grants$509,212 earned by the program30% of program spendingAdvancement department: promoting the ministry of atc through various media outlets, including airtime and printed magazine ads for curriculum, awarded student scholarships and grants to centers, published blog posts and emails covering relevant topics and events, along with interviews and psa's on the drug epidemic for radio stations to expand our reach. Utilized media channels -national website, facebook, instagram, and twitter - to connect with people in need. Participated in momentum, general council and citygate to increase national awareness and visibility of atc.
$432,033 spentof which $75,672 as grants$157,478 earned by the program25% of program spendingMinistry intelligence: (1) continued administration of hrsa funding for moveable equipment. (2) implemented a faith and evidence based instrument for measuring student outcomes in faith-based addiction recovery programs with two partner organizations and a leading r1 university. (3) created a faith-based website around addiction recovery resources - www.recoverymeans.com
$229,019 spentof which $10,672 as grants$142,538 earned by the program13% of program spendingAccreditation: completed 70 accreditation reviews of 71 program sites - including men's and women's, adolescent, women with children, and correctional programs - across 22 states and territories, including puerto rico. The program convened a 12-member advisory review task force, submitted accreditation- standard recommendations for board review, and launched a centralized national talent-acquisition platform to support workforce recruitment across affiliated organizations.
$565,916 spentof which $32,019 as grants$167,326 earned by the program32% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,755,288.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $2.6M to $3.2M (+21%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 6% · 2023 18% · 2024 17% · 2025 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 9 funders, grant income fell $80k → $68k.
8 of 30 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 44% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $90k from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Minnesota Teen Challenge Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money ADULT & TEEN CHALLENGE USA raised.
From the IRS filings of ADULT & TEEN CHALLENGE USA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
ADULT & TEEN CHALLENGE USA has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 32% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
68% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ADULT & TEEN CHALLENGE USA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 94% · 2018 85% · 2019 71% · 2020 68% · 2021 80% · 2022 39% · 2023 40% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
22% of ADULT & TEEN CHALLENGE USA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 37% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
ADULT & TEEN CHALLENGE USA draws 94% of its grant income from funders outside Missouri, across 16 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $360k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Government funding ADULT & TEEN CHALLENGE USA receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.2M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$1.2M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like ADULT & TEEN CHALLENGE USA
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
69% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 11 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ADULT & TEEN CHALLENGE USA: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ADULT & TEEN CHALLENGE USA?
- ADULT & TEEN CHALLENGE USA (Missouri) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $825,205 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($261,850). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ADULT & TEEN CHALLENGE USA have?
- IRS filings report 30 organizations giving $825,205 in grants to ADULT & TEEN CHALLENGE USA, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ADULT & TEEN CHALLENGE USA?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $261,850 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ADULT & TEEN CHALLENGE USA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 30 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing