California · Nonprofit
YOUTH FOR CHRIST CENTRAL VALLEY
YOUTH FOR CHRIST CENTRAL VALLEY (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $118,653 to it, the largest being Stanislaus Community Foundation ($31,700). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 81% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2026
- $1.7M
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $119k
- Net assets
- $1.1M
What Youth for Christ Central Valley does
Mission
Our mission directs us to reach young people everywhere, working togetehr with the local church and other like-minded partners to raise up lifelong followers of jesus who lead by their godliness in lifestyle, devotion to the word and prayer, passion for sharing christ's love and commitment to social involvement.
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.
Programs
Counseling and professional services for couples, families, individuals, and groups
$605,560 spent$703,918 earned by the program54% of program spendingYouth ministry services which include the following:1) campus life is a school based ministry that provides a variety of workshops, classes, mentoring and faith focused clubs on public school campuses.2)juvenile justice ministries program which provides the chapel program at the stanislaus county juvenile hall3)tapestry which is a multi-site, multi-ethnic neighborhood youth ministry program4)city life is a neghborhood focused outreach in underserved geographical areas. This ministry is holistically based, focusing on healthy relationships, economic development, spiritual formation, and civic engagement.
$508,107 spent46% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2026 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,113,667.
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 2021 to 2022, from $561k to $789k (+41%).
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 4% · 2018 1% · 2021 9% · 2022 8% · 2023 1% · 2024 1% · 2025 1% · 2026 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
57% of YOUTH FOR CHRIST CENTRAL VALLEY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 10 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
Ken Sylvia
Executive director
Board chair
Dave Boone
Chairman
As listed on its FY2026 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $22k → $100.
5 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 81% 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 FOR CHRIST CENTRAL VALLEY’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
YOUTH FOR CHRIST CENTRAL VALLEY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% 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
93% 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 FOR CHRIST CENTRAL VALLEY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 45% · 2018 53% · 2019 52% · 2020 98% · 2021 69% · 2022 55% · 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.
Where its funders are
81% of YOUTH FOR CHRIST CENTRAL VALLEY'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 $23k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from California funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $96k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
YOUTH FOR CHRIST CENTRAL VALLEY holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 23 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 23 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2026
Government funding YOUTH FOR CHRIST CENTRAL VALLEY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.7M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$1.7M
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 YOUTH FOR CHRIST CENTRAL VALLEY
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
71% 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
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for YOUTH FOR CHRIST CENTRAL VALLEY: 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 YOUTH FOR CHRIST CENTRAL VALLEY?
- YOUTH FOR CHRIST CENTRAL VALLEY (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $118,653 to it, the largest being Stanislaus Community Foundation ($31,700). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 81% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does YOUTH FOR CHRIST CENTRAL VALLEY have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $118,653 in grants to YOUTH FOR CHRIST CENTRAL VALLEY, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of YOUTH FOR CHRIST CENTRAL VALLEY?
- Stanislaus Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $31,700 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like YOUTH FOR CHRIST CENTRAL VALLEY 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 FY2026 (financials across 2017–2026), and the filings of 7 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