Iowa · Nonprofit
FREEDOM FOR YOUTH MINISTRIES
FREEDOM FOR YOUTH MINISTRIES (Iowa) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,341,484 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FDN OF GREATER DES MOINES F/K/A GREATER DES MOINES COMMUNITY FDN ($552,283). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.5M
- Funders on record
- 31
- Grants received
- $2.3M
- Net assets
- $4.4M
What Freedom for Youth Ministries does
Mission
Freedom for youth offers the love of jesus christ to at-risk inner city youth and homeless young adults which empowers them to break bondages in their lives, discover their god given purpose and lead a life filled with faith, hope & love. Activities include after-school programs and work training.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Freedom for youth (ffym) - our after-school programs have attracted over 300 at-risk youth, including our flagship campus in des moines. Elementary children, many refugees, are tutored on-site by volunteers. Our focus is on reading where we track reading levels of each student. Over 90% of our students enter our programs at least one year behind in reading levels. We have been successful in increasing the reading level of all of our students. Our teens are active in our programs which include art, pottery, cooking, computers, music, welding, woodworking and mechanics. Youth have an opportunity to sell items they have made in classes. Crime and drop-out rates have decreased among our population served. Programming occurs 4 days a week all year long and over 23,000 meals are served to the hungry children during program.
$635,704 spentof which $1,967 as grants55% of program spendingFreedom construction services employment training program- in 2020, the organization opened another employment training center, called freedom construction services, llc. The purpose of the program is similar to freedom blend coffee concerning learning soft-skills. In addition, participants are learning about various construction trades through class room presentations, hands-on training and working on jobs in the field
$283,458 spent$89,916 earned by the program25% of program spendingFreedom blend coffee employment training program - Freedom for Youth Ministries launched a employment training program through a company called freedom blend coffee. Young people from our inner-city who have dropped out of school or graduated and have had trouble holding a job, are encouraged to participate in this program. Program participants will learn and develop soft skills, such as punctuality, respecting authority, communicating with co-workers and customers, in an environment that offers grace and encouragement. Over a one-year training period, participants will earn a competitive wage and gain the confidence to be successful in a full-time position. Our organization will work with outside employers to match them with graduates of our program. Our long-term goal is to break the generational poverty cycle in many families by preparing young people for long-term sustainable employment.
$232,494 spent$98,940 earned by the program20% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,151,656.
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 2023 to 2024, from $3.9M to $4.5M (+14%).
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: 2020 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
91% of FREEDOM FOR YOUTH MINISTRIES’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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 6 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $250k → $321k.
11 of 31 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 55% 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 FREEDOM FOR YOUTH MINISTRIES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 31 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
FREEDOM FOR YOUTH MINISTRIES has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% 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
68% 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 FREEDOM FOR YOUTH MINISTRIES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 34% · 2018 34% · 2019 25% · 2020 26% · 2021 49% · 2022 31% · 2023 33% — broadly stable.
“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
65% of FREEDOM FOR YOUTH MINISTRIES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
55% of FREEDOM FOR YOUTH MINISTRIES'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 $1.1M that is directly attributable, 63% of it comes from Iowa funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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
FREEDOM FOR YOUTH MINISTRIES runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,928 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,928 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like FREEDOM FOR YOUTH MINISTRIES
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 Iowa
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
60% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
71%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Freedom for Youth Enterprises LLC · disregarded
- Freedom Construction Services LLC · disregarded
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FREEDOM FOR YOUTH MINISTRIES?
- FREEDOM FOR YOUTH MINISTRIES (Iowa) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,341,484 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FDN OF GREATER DES MOINES F/K/A GREATER DES MOINES COMMUNITY FDN ($552,283). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FREEDOM FOR YOUTH MINISTRIES have?
- IRS filings report 31 organizations giving $2,341,484 in grants to FREEDOM FOR YOUTH MINISTRIES, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FREEDOM FOR YOUTH MINISTRIES?
- COMMUNITY FDN OF GREATER DES MOINES F/K/A GREATER DES MOINES COMMUNITY FDN is the largest funder on record, with $552,283 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FREEDOM FOR YOUTH MINISTRIES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Iowa. 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 31 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