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YOUTH FOR CHRIST USA INC HAWAII

YOUTH FOR CHRIST USA INC HAWAII (Hawaii) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $162,192 to it, the largest being ALOHA UNITED WAY INC ($35,657). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$435k
Funders on record
10
Grants received
$162k
Net assets
$45k
6/10 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 14%
01What it does

What Youth for Christ USA Inc Hawaii does

Mission

The mission of yfc-hi is to partner with community members to improve the lives of young people through a faith based peer and mentor program called campus life. Yfc-hi focuses on raising academics, improving school culture, reducing drug and alcohol use, lowering risky sexual behavior, reducing depression and suicide.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Campus life is a program that works with student-run, co-curricula high school and middle school clubs. The weekly clubs provide food, activities, student talks and leadership training. Students are encouraged to make good life decisons based upon biblical principles. This year yfc- hi ran 20 campus life clubs, serving over 1,000 students.

    $153,802 spent
    56% of program spending
  2. Other program services, not described on the e-filed return.

    $121,040 spent
    44% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $274,842.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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.

100 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($466k) Expenses 100 ($385k) Net assets 100 ($125k)2022 Revenue 73 ($339k) Expenses 106 ($408k) Net assets 45 ($56k)2023 Revenue 93 ($434k) Expenses 120 ($461k) Net assets 15 ($19k)2024 Revenue 103 ($478k) Expenses 118 ($453k) Net assets 35 ($44k)2025 Revenue 93 ($435k) Expenses 115 ($441k) Net assets 36 ($45k)
20212022202320242025
Revenue (93)Expenses (115)Net assets (36)Peer revenue range

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 $129k to $67k (−48%).

$129k
$67k
$36k
$63k
$49k
20212022202320242025
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.

2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2022 10% · 2023 12% · 2024 17% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

99% of YOUTH FOR CHRIST USA INC HAWAII’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (83% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 6,387 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$81k
’21
−$69k
’22
−$27k
’23
$26k
’24
−$6k
’25
1.1
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

Phillip Gerwein

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

20212022202320242025
Listed877811
Joined·+0+0+1+4
No longer listed·1001
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $10k → $60k.

3 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 USA INC HAWAII’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 USA INC HAWAII has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% 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

64% 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 USA INC HAWAII.

22%
largest funder
60%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 68% · 2018 100% · 2019 59% · 2020 99% · 2021 49% · 2022 49% · 2023 54% — 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

43% of YOUTH FOR CHRIST USA INC HAWAII's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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

66% of YOUTH FOR CHRIST USA INC HAWAII's grant income comes from Hawaii funders.

CA
CO
HI

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

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Hawaii out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $13k 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

Against its field

YOUTH FOR CHRIST USA INC HAWAII's funding base is broadening — from 3 funders to 6 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−1% · below the median
Months of reserve1.1mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−2% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,482 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like YOUTH FOR CHRIST USA INC HAWAII

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

62% of spending goes to programs.

Program 62%Management 31%Fundraising 7%

Governance

8
board members
0%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

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 FOR CHRIST USA INC HAWAII?
YOUTH FOR CHRIST USA INC HAWAII (Hawaii) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $162,192 to it, the largest being ALOHA UNITED WAY INC ($35,657). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does YOUTH FOR CHRIST USA INC HAWAII have?
IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $162,192 in grants to YOUTH FOR CHRIST USA INC HAWAII, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of YOUTH FOR CHRIST USA INC HAWAII?
ALOHA UNITED WAY INC is the largest funder on record, with $35,657 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like YOUTH FOR CHRIST USA INC HAWAII find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Hawaii. 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 2021–2025), 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing