Missouri · Nonprofit
COUNCIL FOR DRUG FREE YOUTH
COUNCIL FOR DRUG FREE YOUTH (Missouri) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $609,664 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MISSOURI INC ($558,187). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $333k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $610k
- Net assets
- $147k
What Council for Drug Free Youth does
Mission
Motivate, educate, and collaborate to promote healthy drug free lifestyles among youth in mid-missouri.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
General program is the planning, coordination, support, and evaluation work that is required for the success of all of the programs, including research and training regarding new and modified programs.
$162,676 spent86% of program spendingTeam challenge is a one day facilitated program for 8th grade students. The program, established in 1998, networks with the missouri national guard to focus on team building. Specific objectives include: education on meth, alcohol, and marijuana, the importance of team building, decision making, information regarding the national guard, learning to work together to accomplish goals and objectives. In 2022, there were 20 one-day sessions serving approximately 2,000 8th grade students.
$6,077 spent3% of program spendingSafety kids consists of a peer to peer performance group that offers 5th grade performers an opportunity to provide leadership and information regarding the consequences of drugs and alcohol to children in grades k-5. The program helps increase youth commitment to live drug free. This program also heightens community awareness of prevention education and the services provided by cdfy. This is the most recognizable cdfy program as most people have heard of the safety kids.
$4,750 spent3% of program spendingOther program services 4: safety kids consists of a peer to peer performance group that offers 5th grade performers an opportunity to provide leadership and information regarding the consequences of drugs and alcohol to children in grades k-5. The program helps increase youth commitment to live drug free. This program also heightens community awareness of prevention education and the services provided by cdfy. This is the most recognizable cdfy program as most people have heard of the safety kids. Other program services 5: show me players is a peer to peer program,which empowers 7th grade student leaders as they present to area 4th and 5th grade students regarding the challenges of middle school along with the importance of staying away from alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs. The program is interactive and also emphasizes anti-bullying. This program is designed to provide leadership skills and character to the 7th grade students as well as those to whom they are presenting. The program helps increase youth commitment to live drug free. Other program services 6: tobacco prevention program is a facilitated program presented to 3rd grade students which demonstrates in an engaging…
$16,456 spent9% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2022 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $189,959.
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 2019 to 2020, from $91k to $181k (+98%).
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: 2017 58% · 2018 43% · 2019 36% · 2020 37% · 2021 45% · 2022 49% · 2023 42% · 2024 45%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of COUNCIL FOR DRUG FREE YOUTH’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (73% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $55k → $106k.
From the IRS filings of COUNCIL FOR DRUG FREE YOUTH’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
COUNCIL FOR DRUG FREE YOUTH leans on a few funders — its largest provides 92% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% 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 COUNCIL FOR DRUG FREE YOUTH.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 98% · 2021 100% · 2022 86% · 2023 78% — 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
99% of COUNCIL FOR DRUG FREE YOUTH's grant income comes from Missouri funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
COUNCIL FOR DRUG FREE YOUTH's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 2 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,356 unclassified nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding COUNCIL FOR DRUG FREE YOUTH receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.1M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$1.1M
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 COUNCIL FOR DRUG FREE YOUTH
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
65% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COUNCIL FOR DRUG FREE YOUTH: 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 COUNCIL FOR DRUG FREE YOUTH?
- COUNCIL FOR DRUG FREE YOUTH (Missouri) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $609,664 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MISSOURI INC ($558,187). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COUNCIL FOR DRUG FREE YOUTH have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $609,664 in grants to COUNCIL FOR DRUG FREE YOUTH, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COUNCIL FOR DRUG FREE YOUTH?
- UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MISSOURI INC is the largest funder on record, with $558,187 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COUNCIL FOR DRUG FREE YOUTH 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 4 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