Tennessee · Nonprofit
CHATTANOOGA YOUTH NETWORK
CHATTANOOGA YOUTH NETWORK (Tennessee) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,014,773 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($515,412). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 96% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $408k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $1.0M
- Net assets
- $7k
What Chattanooga Youth Network does
Mission
The Chattanooga Youth Network (one hundred years) exists to help every generation reach the next generation with the greatness of god by serving the church through equipping leaders, empowering intergenerational relationships and providing effective resources.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Youth leader collective - connects, coaches, and cares for youth leaders across the region through monthly collective gatherings, one on one coaching, conferences, and a leadership cohort. Through these initiatives in 2025, ylco impacted 180 churches, 10,800 students, 2,160 volunteers, and 6,300 families.
$245,285 spent$24,017 earned by the program70% of program spendingPray for me initiative - equips churches to support young people through intergenerational prayer relationships. It equips students to ask three different generations to pray for them daily for a school year and equips adults to make good on their promise through prayer guides. This initiative has impacted approximately 26,250 students through prayer relationships with 78,750 prayer champions from different generations in 2025. This involved 875 churches in 47 states and 7 countries.
$105,338 spent$22,241 earned by the program30% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $350,623.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $76k to $141k (+84%).
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 21%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
89% of CHATTANOOGA YOUTH NETWORK’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (83% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 6 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
Robert Souder
Executive director
Board chair
Don Oakes
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $11k → $157k.
4 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 96% 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 CHATTANOOGA YOUTH NETWORK’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
CHATTANOOGA YOUTH NETWORK leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
96% 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 CHATTANOOGA YOUTH NETWORK.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 48% · 2021 56% · 2022 61% · 2023 58% — 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.
Where its funders are
96% of CHATTANOOGA YOUTH NETWORK'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 $38k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Tennessee funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $977k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
CHATTANOOGA YOUTH NETWORK's revenue grew 36% between 2020 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,482 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like CHATTANOOGA YOUTH NETWORK
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 Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
85%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHATTANOOGA YOUTH NETWORK: 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 CHATTANOOGA YOUTH NETWORK?
- CHATTANOOGA YOUTH NETWORK (Tennessee) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,014,773 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($515,412). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 96% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CHATTANOOGA YOUTH NETWORK have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $1,014,773 in grants to CHATTANOOGA YOUTH NETWORK, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHATTANOOGA YOUTH NETWORK?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $515,412 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHATTANOOGA YOUTH NETWORK find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 6 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