Kansas · Nonprofit
DESOTO YOUTH MINISTRIES INC
DESOTO YOUTH MINISTRIES INC (Kansas) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $59,827 to it, the largest being Servant Foundation ($36,731). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 84% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $192k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $60k
- Net assets
- $373k
What Desoto Youth Ministries Inc does
Mission
Desoto youth ministries, inc. (dym) exists to help teens, young adults to discover their unique mission and empower them to build a spiritual foundation, find connections and inspiration where imagination is not limited in ways to love god and others.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
In 2024, desoto youth ministries, inc. (dym) continued its purpose to share god's love and hope to the local community and beyond, empowering young people and adults to discover their mission. Attendance at dym's weekly program (fireside), targeting older high school/college age students, totaled 1,003. 101 new students attended in 2024 with over 1,000 meals provided and volunteers logged more than 170 hours. Students also attended additional special events, trainings, and conferences. Dym staff led a weekly mentoring group for men coming out of trauma, hosted a micro-church group bi-monthly, hosted dances, worship nights, game nights, and nearly daily mentoring sessions. In addition dym's facilitiy was utilized for a weekly local church youth group, community fundraising events, fitness programs, family celebrations and more. Volunteers contributed hundreds of hours toward events, helped with facility service projects, upgrades, the coffee shop, and met various local needs. Non-cash donations included sound and audio equipment, building supplies, maintaining equipment, miscellaneous building needs, and a new commercial door. Dym's facility was an ongoing hive of weekly activity…
$223,548 spent$161,940 earned by the program94% of program spendingCause brings together individuals, community groups, church groups, small group bible studies, young adults, students for fireside, volunteers, opportunities for encouragement and comfort, mentoring opportunities nearly daily, exposure to the mission of dym and giving to needs. In 2024, cause donations included helping fight sex trafficking, tornado relief, orphan care in haiti, money to help needs of a local widow, new blankets for nicu facilities, and coffee/supplies and gift baskets for local schools, other fundraisers, and weekly donated pastries for local care center, and more. Non-cash donations to dym in 2024 included a wall of mirrors and new commercial glass door, maintenance on sprinkler system, new faucet for sink, new outdoor patio benches, plants and landscaping,8 boxes of new clothes to give to those in need, and outdoor christmas lighting, including installation. In 2024 dym continued to expand its longstanding positive reputation in the community and beyond. Total revenues and expenses for this program are listed on form 990-t.
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$14,323 spent$17,119 earned by the program6% of program spendingDesoto youth ministries, inc. (dym) exists to help teens, young adults to discover their unique mission and empower them to build a spiritual foundation, find connections and inspiration where imagination is not limited in ways to love god and others.
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $237,871.
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 2021 to 2022, from $154k to $710k (+362%).
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.
94% of DESOTO YOUTH MINISTRIES INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 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 narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $7k → $25.
4 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 84% 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 DESOTO YOUTH MINISTRIES INC’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
DESOTO YOUTH MINISTRIES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 61% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
84% 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 DESOTO YOUTH MINISTRIES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 79% · 2018 60% · 2019 82% · 2020 83% · 2021 73% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
84% of DESOTO YOUTH MINISTRIES 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 $10k that is directly attributable, 79% of it comes from Kansas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $50k 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
DESOTO YOUTH MINISTRIES INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 12,816 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,816 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like DESOTO YOUTH MINISTRIES 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 Kansas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds DESOTO YOUTH MINISTRIES INC?
- DESOTO YOUTH MINISTRIES INC (Kansas) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $59,827 to it, the largest being Servant Foundation ($36,731). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 84% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does DESOTO YOUTH MINISTRIES INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $59,827 in grants to DESOTO YOUTH MINISTRIES INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DESOTO YOUTH MINISTRIES INC?
- Servant Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $36,731 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DESOTO YOUTH MINISTRIES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kansas. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), 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