California · Nonprofit
URBAN YOUTH COLLABORATIVE
URBAN YOUTH COLLABORATIVE (California) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,417,172 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($504,737). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.0M
- Funders on record
- 26
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $816k
What Urban Youth Collaborative does
Mission
Presenting life options made possible through the gospel of jesus christ to urban youth in san diego (ca), sacramento/grass valley (ca), columbia (sc), atlanta (ga), spokane (wa), tijuana (mx), and addis ababa (et).
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Presenting the gospel of jesus christ to urban youth in san diego (ca), sacramento/grass valley (ca), columbia (sc), atlanta (ga), spokane (wa), tijuana (mx), and addis ababa (et).
$1,957,780 spent96% of program spendingVision night fundraising banquet: in 2025, Urban Youth Collaborative hosted a successful vision night fundraising banquet that raised over $100,000 in gifts and future pledges for the ministrys continued outreach and evangelism work with generation z and generation alpha.
$44,324 spent2% of program spendingProject 25 community service challenge: each year, students from 30-50 middle and high school clubs perform over volunteer service to the communities of san diego, mexico, and atlanta. We challenge young leaders to read the parable of the talents in matthew 25. They prayerfully identify a need in their school, city, or world that they wanted to meet in the name of jesus. Then, they made a short video giving an account of how they put the funds to work on behalf of others. We host all clubs at a red carpet awards celebration. Community leaders present trophies to the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place projects that made the most incredible impact with their resources. Over the years, students have been involved in such projects as purchasing the freedom of slaves in sudan, drilling fresh water wells in developing countries, designing an anti-bullying mural at a school where bullying caused a suicide, feeding the homeless, sharing the good news about jesus with friends, cleaning up beaches, and other meaningful outreach events for the community. During the past eighteen years over 350,000 hours of community service has been generated by students leaders who raised over $250,000 toward kingdom…
$30,586 spent$14,100 earned by the program2% of program spendingWeekly program: over 8,000 young people hear the gospel every week through the student-initiated, student-led faith clubs, and public school campus meetings that take place at middle and high schools in san diego (ca), sacramento/grass valley (ca), columbia (sc), atlanta (ga), spokane (wa), tijuana (mx), and addis ababa (et). We provide physical food, spiritual food, discipleship opportunities, spiritual guidance, and adolescent goal-setting training every week to students who may not hear about jesus otherwise. This is made possible by our coalition of 100 local churches that collaborate together to support student leaders. We also offer mentoring, tutoring, community service, and sports ministry opportunities.
School beautification day: throughout each school year, uyc hosts a series of school beautification projects throughout san diego county. Altogether, a hundred or more volunteers work on school campuses in the south bay, inner-city san diego, east county, and up in north county, depending on the year. By matching a churchs capacity with the schools needs, we envision projects that range from painting, weed removal, and trash pick-up to heavy equipment and construction.
Fca summer camp: in 2025, uyc transplanted 133 high school students into the soil of point loma nazarene university for a transformational week of fca sports camp. Thanks to this generous partnership with fca, each student receives a scholarship to eat in the cafeteria, sleep in the dorms, practice on the courts/fields, and experience life on a college campus. In the evening, campers attend a dynamic team chapel service with powerful worship and biblical teaching. Many students make commitments to christ or rededicate their lives to jesus. A week at college also plants the seed of pursuing higher education in the minds of students who may not think of themselves as college-bound otherwise. Fca provides over $60,000 in scholarships annually to make this camp possible for uyc kids. While these funds do not come through uycs books, they go directly to camp scholarships that benefit students we serve. Over the past eighteen years, uyc has sent 100-150 students annually to this life-changing camp experience.
Food for hungry families facing food insecurity: in addition to food for weekly faith clubs and sports teams, uyc provided restaurant and grocery cards for hungry students in san diego and mexico.
Discipleship: uyc took over 123 students through a personalized discipleship program designed to grow their relationship with god and teach them to become reproducing followers of jesus christ.
Online & in-person training: through live outdoor events and online gatherings, uyc developed training experiences that equipped youth workers to engage gen z and gen alpha effectively on campus, virtually, and in diverse communities in san diego and beyond. Our online presence continues to reach thousands of people year year.
In 2025,Urban Youth Collaborative continued conversations with ministries in ethiopia about the potential of expanding our work into more countries.
In 2025, dr. Landis book god wants his kids back was translated into spanish and amharic to expand uycs work in african and latin america.
Localized late lunch learning labs: Urban Youth Collaborative hosted local learning labs to inspire and train pastors to reach students by empowering their congregations for outreach on public school campuses throughout san diego county and beyond.
Successful relationship education program continues: Urban Youth Collaborative received two federal grants for work in california and one state-based grant for work in south carolina. The initiative allows us to take 1,300 vulnerable youth through a curriculum that highlights the lifelong benefits of voluntary abstinence until marriage. Program goals also include reducing dating violence, stis, and teen pregnancies.
College scholarships funds: in 2025, 26 deserving seniors nominated by uyc received launch funding for college through an innovative partnership with the aris elijah pugal foundation (aepf). This beautiful partnership honors young people who serve god faithfully in public schools in memory of aris elijah pugal who lost his life through a tragic act of violence. The legacy of elijah and the pugal family lives on through this god-ordained annual tradition that prepares the next generation for lives of christian service.
The 14 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,032,690.
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 $617k to $855k (+39%).
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: 2022 11% · 2023 32% · 2024 46% · 2025 46%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of URBAN YOUTH COLLABORATIVE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 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
Rev Nate Landis
CEO and founder
Board chair
Helen Griffith
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $63k → $109k.
8 of 26 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 57% 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 URBAN YOUTH COLLABORATIVE’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
URBAN YOUTH COLLABORATIVE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 36% 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
63% 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 URBAN YOUTH COLLABORATIVE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 40% · 2018 37% · 2019 50% · 2020 26% · 2021 60% · 2022 23% · 2023 53% — 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.
How long its funders stay
50% of URBAN YOUTH COLLABORATIVE'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
57% of URBAN YOUTH COLLABORATIVE'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 $611k that is directly attributable, 75% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $807k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
URBAN YOUTH COLLABORATIVE has grown faster than half of the 1,152 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,152 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding URBAN YOUTH COLLABORATIVE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.1M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$3.1M
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 URBAN YOUTH COLLABORATIVE
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds URBAN YOUTH COLLABORATIVE?
- URBAN YOUTH COLLABORATIVE (California) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,417,172 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($504,737). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does URBAN YOUTH COLLABORATIVE have?
- IRS filings report 26 organizations giving $1,417,172 in grants to URBAN YOUTH COLLABORATIVE, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of URBAN YOUTH COLLABORATIVE?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $504,737 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like URBAN YOUTH COLLABORATIVE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 26 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