Mississippi · Nonprofit
MISSISSIPPI GULF COAST YOUTH FOR CHRIST INC
MISSISSIPPI GULF COAST YOUTH FOR CHRIST INC (Mississippi) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $676,356 to it, the largest being MISSISSIPPI GULF RESORT CLASSIC FOUNDATION INC ($574,269). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $964k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $676k
- Net assets
- $660k
What Mississippi Gulf Coast Youth for Christ Inc does
Mission
To evangelize youth culture
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Youth gatherings (xtreme teen events) at teen centers every saturday night, consisting of youth fellowship, cafe, and sports arcade activities. Weekly meetings on school campuses and various other youth evangelistic activities.
$113,618 spent$132,681 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $113,618.
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 $310k to $879k (+184%).
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.
13% of MISSISSIPPI GULF COAST YOUTH FOR CHRIST INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (83% 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.
Chief executive
Thomas B Holt
Executive director
Board chair
Larry Strohm
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $12k → $12k.
3 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 MISSISSIPPI GULF COAST YOUTH FOR CHRIST INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 5 of 6 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
MISSISSIPPI GULF COAST YOUTH FOR CHRIST INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 85% 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
100% 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 MISSISSIPPI GULF COAST YOUTH FOR CHRIST INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 92% · 2021 86% · 2022 93% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
99% of MISSISSIPPI GULF COAST YOUTH FOR CHRIST INC's grant income comes from Mississippi funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $96k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
MISSISSIPPI GULF COAST YOUTH FOR CHRIST INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,482 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,482 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like MISSISSIPPI GULF COAST 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 Mississippi
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
14% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
65%
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 MISSISSIPPI GULF COAST YOUTH FOR CHRIST INC: 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 MISSISSIPPI GULF COAST YOUTH FOR CHRIST INC?
- MISSISSIPPI GULF COAST YOUTH FOR CHRIST INC (Mississippi) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $676,356 to it, the largest being MISSISSIPPI GULF RESORT CLASSIC FOUNDATION INC ($574,269). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MISSISSIPPI GULF COAST YOUTH FOR CHRIST INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $676,356 in grants to MISSISSIPPI GULF COAST YOUTH FOR CHRIST INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MISSISSIPPI GULF COAST YOUTH FOR CHRIST INC?
- MISSISSIPPI GULF RESORT CLASSIC FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $574,269 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MISSISSIPPI GULF COAST YOUTH FOR CHRIST INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Mississippi. 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 2017–2025), 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