Minnesota · Nonprofit
WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA YOUTH FOR CHRIST
WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA YOUTH FOR CHRIST (Minnesota) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $244,667 to it, the largest being COMMUNITYGIVING ($85,449). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 91% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $245k
- Net assets
- $860k
What West Central Minnesota Youth for Christ does
Mission
Team evangelism and discipleship
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Parent life reaches expectant and parenting teens and their children through intentional relationships with trained adults and community partnerships, empowering the teens to make good choices and encouraging them to further their education and move toward independent living and become life-long followers of jesus christ.
$487,288 spent69% of program spendingCampus life leaders build relationships with young people to introduce them to christ. We seek to cultivate great moments of connection and community for young people. Through a holistic approach campus life helps students as they wrestle with critical issues. Leaders help young people realize a christ-centered life that provides balance mentally, physically, spiritually, and socially. We are committed to coming alongside young people and meeting them where they are. We seek to help young people navigate the pivotal years of middle and high school, uncovering god's story of hope in their lives.
Young people in the juvenile justice system often feel overlooked, and it's our passion to make them feel seen, heard, and valued. Juvenile justice ministry leaders aim to be a steady voice and presence in their lives, intentionally postured as a humble and authentic mentor. We pursue thousands of young people in the united states justice system each year, coming alongside them in a variety of juvenile justice settings (I.e. Detention centers, probation, correctional facilities, group homes, residential treatment centers, emergency shelters, courts, and diversion). Many of the teenagers we meet face adverse situations such as relational trauma, racial trauma, community violence, and lack of access to basic needs. It is during these moments of crisis that our leaders invest in reciprocal trusted friendships with our young people, who are facing pivotal life challenges. We ultimately build relationships with young people to introduce them to christ and uncover god's story of hope in their lives.
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$217,868 spent31% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $705,156.
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 2022 to 2023, from $719k to $858k (+19%).
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: 2017 1% · 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 1% · 2021 0% · 2022 0% · 2024 0% · 2025 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
85% of WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA YOUTH FOR CHRIST’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (90% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Board chair
Bruce Hanson
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $39k → $27k.
8 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 91% 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 WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA YOUTH FOR CHRIST’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
WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA YOUTH FOR CHRIST leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders 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 WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA YOUTH FOR CHRIST.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 56% · 2018 37% · 2019 100% · 2022 57% · 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.
How long its funders stay
0% of WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA YOUTH FOR CHRIST's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 40% 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
91% of WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA YOUTH FOR CHRIST'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 $22k that is directly attributable, 69% of it comes from Minnesota funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $223k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA YOUTH FOR CHRIST's revenue grew 21% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,325 religion nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA YOUTH FOR CHRIST
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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
66% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
88%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA YOUTH FOR CHRIST: 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 WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA YOUTH FOR CHRIST?
- WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA YOUTH FOR CHRIST (Minnesota) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $244,667 to it, the largest being COMMUNITYGIVING ($85,449). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 91% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA YOUTH FOR CHRIST have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $244,667 in grants to WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA YOUTH FOR CHRIST, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA YOUTH FOR CHRIST?
- COMMUNITYGIVING is the largest funder on record, with $85,449 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA YOUTH FOR CHRIST find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 10 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