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CENTER FOR PARENT YOUTH UNDERSTANDING

CENTER FOR PARENT YOUTH UNDERSTANDING (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $490,334 to it, the largest being LANCASTER COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($135,417). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 88% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$691k
Funders on record
16
Grants received
$490k
Net assets
$381k
14/16 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 22%
01What it does

What Center for Parent Youth Understanding does

Mission

The center for parent/youth understanding endeavors to increase the ability of home and church to nurture children and teens into a lifetime of biblically-faithful, whole-life christian discipleship.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Web site received 2 million visitors, 15,000 people received an e-mail weekly, 515 subscribers to monthly parent page, 50,000 downloads to youth culture matters podcast, and daily radio show that is aired on 812 radio stations across the country that could be heard by millions of people

    $340,748 spent$68,060 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $340,748.

02The organization over time

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($487k) Expenses 100 ($516k) Net assets 100 ($74k)2018 Revenue 107 ($524k) Expenses 99 ($509k) Net assets 120 ($89k)2019 Revenue 97 ($474k) Expenses 91 ($472k) Net assets 124 ($92k)2020 Revenue 88 ($429k) Expenses 90 ($466k) Net assets 74 ($55k)2021 Revenue 110 ($538k) Expenses 87 ($447k) Net assets 197 ($146k)2022 Revenue 136 ($664k) Expenses 89 ($458k) Net assets 474 ($352k)2023 Revenue 108 ($526k) Expenses 99 ($512k) Net assets 492 ($365k)2024 Revenue 108 ($527k) Expenses 110 ($569k) Net assets 436 ($323k)2025 Revenue 142 ($691k) Expenses 123 ($634k) Net assets 513 ($381k)
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Revenue (142)Expenses (123)Net assets (513)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $221k to $391k (+77%).

$102k
$115k
$117k
$138k
$221k
$391k
$397k
$351k
$452k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 20% · 2022 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

84% of CENTER FOR PARENT YOUTH UNDERSTANDING’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 23,870 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$29k
’17
$15k
’18
$3k
’19
−$37k
’20
$92k
’21
$206k
’22
$13k
’23
−$42k
’24
$57k
’25
7.3
months of
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.

Board chair

Greg Anderson

Chairperson

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed111312121214131213
Joined·+5+0+1+3+2+1+1+2
No longer listed·31130221
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 6 funders, grant income fell $82k → $31k.

8 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 88% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of CENTER FOR PARENT YOUTH UNDERSTANDING’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

CENTER FOR PARENT YOUTH UNDERSTANDING has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% 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

88% 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 CENTER FOR PARENT YOUTH UNDERSTANDING.

28%
largest funder
56%
top three
~7
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 37% · 2018 28% · 2019 48% · 2020 64% · 2021 39% · 2022 26% · 2023 47% — growing more concentrated.

“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

58% of CENTER FOR PARENT YOUTH UNDERSTANDING's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 88% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

88% of CENTER FOR PARENT YOUTH UNDERSTANDING's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $58k that is directly attributable, 91% of it comes from Pennsylvania funders.

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In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Pennsylvania out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $432k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

CENTER FOR PARENT YOUTH UNDERSTANDING runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin8% · above the median
Months of reserve7.3mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)4% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like CENTER FOR PARENT YOUTH UNDERSTANDING

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 Pennsylvania

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

64% of spending goes to programs.

Program 64%Management 25%Fundraising 11%

Governance

11
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

99%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 18 states

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Questions and answers

Who funds CENTER FOR PARENT YOUTH UNDERSTANDING?
CENTER FOR PARENT YOUTH UNDERSTANDING (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $490,334 to it, the largest being LANCASTER COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($135,417). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 88% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does CENTER FOR PARENT YOUTH UNDERSTANDING have?
IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $490,334 in grants to CENTER FOR PARENT YOUTH UNDERSTANDING, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CENTER FOR PARENT YOUTH UNDERSTANDING?
LANCASTER COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $135,417 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CENTER FOR PARENT YOUTH UNDERSTANDING find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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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 16 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