Ohio · Nonprofit
CENTRAL OHIO YOUTH FOR CHRIST INC
CENTRAL OHIO YOUTH FOR CHRIST INC (Ohio) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,748,597 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($1,521,931). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 78% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.3M
- Funders on record
- 37
- Grants received
- $5.7M
- Net assets
- $6.4M
What Central Ohio Youth for Christ Inc does
Mission
Coyfc reaches young people everywhere, working 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.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
City life ministryprovides programming for urban students consistent with our holistic ministry model. Faith based programs (bible studies, discipleship programs, retreats, etc.) and faith neutral programs (tutoring, job skills, mentoring, alternative activities, etc.) are provided through a variety of locations and partnerships.
$420,626 spent12% of program spendingWellspring counselingwellspring counseling is a professional counseling ministry assisting children, teens, adults, couples, and families to face and overcome difficult life issues. Wellspring counselors provide counseling consistent with biblical core values into real life solutions. Part of the wellspring vision is to provide this service is strategically accessible areas of our community where christian counseling is often inaccessible.
$1,037,665 spent$1,015,923 earned by the program29% of program spendingJuvenile justice ministryprovides chaplain services for three central ohio detention facilities. Provides after-care programs to channel youth from detention facilities into partner groups in the community who help create new and positive peer groups for teens.
$80,017 spent2% of program spendingThe organization conducts these additional activities:campus life: campus life is a high school/middle school program designed to reach out to the suburban area in central ohio with mainstream students. Programs include a weekly club meeting, camps, trips, retreats and mentoring programs.deaf teen quest: deaf teen quest is a high school and middle school program designed to reach out to deaf and hard of hearing students. Programs include weekly meetings, mentoring, bible studies, life coaching, camps, trips, and retreats. Equip skills center: equip skills center is an automotive training program for teens designed to teach automotive skills in general and job-related soft skills. Students will also learn and practice life skills of customer relations, workplace ethics, money management and conflict resolution. Equip skills center receives donated cars from the community to support this training center. Equip skills center works alongside and in partnership with equip auto sales.equip auto sales: vehicles donated to coyfc will ultimately be transferred to equip auto sales for evaluation, to repair, dispose of, or sell on the equip auto sales car lot. Purchases vehicles at auction,…
$2,080,679 spent$605,410 earned by the program57% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,618,987.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $8.7M to $11M (+27%).
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 47% · 2022 10% · 2023 0% · 2024 3% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
62% of CENTRAL OHIO YOUTH FOR CHRIST INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 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.
Chief executive
Scott Arnold
Executive director
Board chair
Cindy Kratzer
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $533k → $681k.
11 of 37 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 78% 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 CENTRAL OHIO YOUTH FOR CHRIST INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 37 funders by total. 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
CENTRAL OHIO YOUTH FOR CHRIST INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% 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
93% 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 CENTRAL OHIO YOUTH FOR CHRIST INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 66% · 2018 45% · 2019 47% · 2020 80% · 2021 34% · 2022 64% · 2023 36% — 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
33% of CENTRAL OHIO YOUTH FOR CHRIST INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
78% of CENTRAL OHIO YOUTH FOR CHRIST INC'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 $1.3M that is directly attributable, 66% of it comes from funders outside Ohio, across 9 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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.
Against its field
CENTRAL OHIO YOUTH FOR CHRIST INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,152 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,152 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like CENTRAL OHIO YOUTH FOR CHRIST INC
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 Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 8 related entities
- Chicago Avenue Financial Literacy · disregarded
- Coyfc Holdings LLC · disregarded
- Wellspring LLC · disregarded
- Equip Enterprises LLC · disregarded
- City Life Enterprises LLC · disregarded
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CENTRAL OHIO YOUTH FOR CHRIST INC?
- CENTRAL OHIO YOUTH FOR CHRIST INC (Ohio) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,748,597 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($1,521,931). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 78% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CENTRAL OHIO YOUTH FOR CHRIST INC have?
- IRS filings report 37 organizations giving $5,748,597 in grants to CENTRAL OHIO YOUTH FOR CHRIST INC, 22 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CENTRAL OHIO YOUTH FOR CHRIST INC?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,521,931 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CENTRAL OHIO YOUTH FOR CHRIST INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 37 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing