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NASHVILLE YOUTH FOR CHRIST INC

NASHVILLE YOUTH FOR CHRIST INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $796,198 to it, the largest being SPEER FOUNDATION ($515,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$301k
Funders on record
11
Grants received
$796k
Net assets
$300k
8/11 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 53%
01What it does

What Nashville Youth for Christ Inc does

Mission

Programs and special events geared toward bringing middle school and high school students in nashville to christ and connecting them to a local christian church, including programs for teen moms and college students.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Nashville youth for christ: through its campus life, parent/teen life, city life,and juvenile justice ministries, reaches young people everywhere. Working together with the local church and other likeminded partners to raise up lifelong followers of jesus who lead by their godliness in lifestyle, devotion to the word of god and prayer. A passion for sharing the love of christ and commitment to social involvement.

    $252,496 spentof which $6,250 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $252,496.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($237k) Expenses 100 ($220k) Net assets 100 ($243k)2019 Revenue 100 ($238k) Expenses 114 ($250k) Net assets 95 ($230k)2020 Revenue 122 ($290k) Expenses 127 ($279k) Net assets 98 ($239k)2021 Revenue 126 ($298k) Expenses 134 ($296k) Net assets 104 ($252k)2022 Revenue 131 ($310k) Expenses 122 ($269k) Net assets 118 ($286k)2023 Revenue 117 ($278k) Expenses 131 ($288k) Net assets 119 ($289k)2024 Revenue 117 ($278k) Expenses 140 ($308k) Net assets 114 ($276k)2025 Revenue 127 ($301k) Expenses 133 ($293k) Net assets 123 ($300k)
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Revenue (127)Expenses (133)Net assets (123)

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 $241k to $282k (+17%).

$247k
$241k
$282k
$275k
$288k
$292k
$279k
$300k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

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2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$17k
’18
−$13k
’19
$11k
’20
$2k
’21
$40k
’22
−$11k
’23
−$30k
’24
$9k
’25
4.9
months of
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.

Board chair

Craig Stanley

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed1414121211121212
Joined·+1+0+1+1+1+0+0
No longer listed·1212000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $21k → $115k.

3 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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 NASHVILLE YOUTH FOR CHRIST 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

NASHVILLE YOUTH FOR CHRIST INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 65% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

65%
largest funder
87%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 95% · 2018 88% · 2019 68% · 2020 78% · 2021 84% · 2022 70% · 2023 74% — 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.

How long its funders stay

100% of NASHVILLE YOUTH FOR CHRIST INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 73% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

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

99% of NASHVILLE YOUTH FOR CHRIST INC's grant income comes from Tennessee funders.

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TN

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Tennessee out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $87k 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like NASHVILLE 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 Tennessee

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

86% of spending goes to programs.

Program 86%Management 14%Fundraising 0%

Governance

11
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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Questions and answers

Who funds NASHVILLE YOUTH FOR CHRIST INC?
NASHVILLE YOUTH FOR CHRIST INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $796,198 to it, the largest being SPEER FOUNDATION ($515,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does NASHVILLE YOUTH FOR CHRIST INC have?
IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $796,198 in grants to NASHVILLE YOUTH FOR CHRIST INC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of NASHVILLE YOUTH FOR CHRIST INC?
SPEER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $515,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like NASHVILLE YOUTH FOR CHRIST INC 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 11 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