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Youth Dynamics

Youth Dynamics (Washington) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,764,559 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($334,305). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 65% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2023
$4.7M
Funders on record
40
Grants received
$1.8M
Net assets
$2.7M
25/40 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 12%
01What it does

What Youth Dynamics does

Mission

Youth Dynamics is a relational adventure ministry that helps youth discover life in Christ through dynamic relationships and challenging experiences. Our mission is to invite and challenge youth to a lifelong adventure with Christ and His church.

As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.

Program

  1. At Youth Dynamics, we believe that reaching young people is strategic to impacting the world for Christ. We believe in going beyond programs and investing our lives in relationships with teens. In our adventure based activities, we believe that taking youth beyond their comfort zone and utilizing Gods creation creates powerful opportunities for community building and spiritual growth. We also believe that spiritual health is critical to our success and longevity and that the local church is the place of lifelong growth and maturity for believers. In addition, we believe that caring well for our staff and donors is critical to our growth and effectiveness.

    $3,774,975 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,774,975.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($2.5M) Expenses 100 ($2.4M) Net assets 100 ($468k)2018 Revenue 103 ($2.6M) Expenses 106 ($2.5M) Net assets 109 ($509k)2019 Revenue 107 ($2.7M) Expenses 110 ($2.6M) Net assets 116 ($543k)2020 Revenue 125 ($3.1M) Expenses 113 ($2.7M) Net assets 205 ($958k)2021 Revenue 151 ($3.8M) Expenses 129 ($3.1M) Net assets 349 ($1.6M)2022 Revenue 177 ($4.4M) Expenses 162 ($3.9M) Net assets 468 ($2.2M)2023 Revenue 188 ($4.7M) Expenses 177 ($4.2M) Net assets 568 ($2.7M)
2017201820192020202120222023
Revenue (188)Expenses (177)Net assets (568)

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 $1.2M to $1.9M (+58%).

$665k
$695k
$710k
$1.2M
$1.9M
$2.5M
$3.0M
2017201820192020202120222023
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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$102k
’17
$41k
’18
$34k
’19
$415k
’20
$677k
’21
$534k
’22
$468k
’23
5.7
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

John Kingma

Board chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

2017201820192020202120222023
Listed7766556
Joined·+1+0+0+0+0+2
No longer listed·110101
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 21 funders, grant income rose $27k → $307k.

14 of 40 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 65% 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 Youth Dynamics’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 40 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

Youth Dynamics has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left

65% 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 Youth Dynamics.

19%
largest funder
43%
top three
~12
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 43% · 2018 24% · 2019 56% · 2020 40% · 2021 40% · 2022 55% · 2023 22% — 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

56% of Youth Dynamics's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

65% of Youth Dynamics'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 $613k that is directly attributable, 72% of it comes from funders outside Washington, across 14 states.

WA
ID
MT
OR
OH
NJ
CT
CA
CO
NE
DE
TN
SC
TX

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

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Washington out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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 Youth Dynamics

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 Washington

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

76% of spending goes to programs.

Program 76%Management 13%Fundraising 11%

Governance

7
board members
86%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

89%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds Youth Dynamics?
Youth Dynamics (Washington) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,764,559 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($334,305). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 65% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Youth Dynamics have?
IRS filings report 40 organizations giving $1,764,559 in grants to Youth Dynamics, 25 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Youth Dynamics?
VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM is the largest funder on record, with $334,305 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Youth Dynamics find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 FY2023 (financials across 2017–2023), and the filings of 40 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