Minnesota · Nonprofit
YOUTH MINISTRY CONSULTANTS
YOUTH MINISTRY CONSULTANTS (Minnesota) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $133,728 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($75,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 63% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $218k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $134k
- Net assets
- $166k
What Youth Ministry Consultants does
Mission
Helping Leaders, Parents and Churches share faith to the next generation. We seek to educate, equip, empower and encourage adults who interact with the next generation whether volunteer or professional. We provide training and resources for ministry leaders. We particularly desire to serve the leader working in smaller churches or organizations.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Training: We have a full-time Executive Director and a part-time President along with contracted staff in the training area. We offered 12 online webinars that trained 180 leaders. We launched our Children's and Youth Ministry Certification Program (CYMCP) in January and offered two cohorts that trained 12 leaders in this year-long program. We coached 20 ministry leaders with individual coaching and training. 19430We have a part-time Director of the CYMCP. Expenses: 60% of Ex. Director's salary. 55% of President's salary. 100% of CYMCP Director costs. 35% Administration/Marketing costs.
$119,066 spent$19,430 earned by the program75% of program spendingCoaching: We have reduced our coaching time and investment as we have focused on training and resources. We offered free or reduced coaching to 20 leaders. Expenses: 5% of E.D. salary. 5% of President's salary. 100% of payments to coaches.
$6,932 spent$550 earned by the program4% of program spendingResources: We provide free ministry resources for leaders in smaller churches through our website: Smallyouthministry.com We had over 2,000 leaders access this website and download free resources. We developed a resource called "Simply Serve" which is a video training for small churches planning a mission trip. 25 churches have accessed this resource. Expenses are: 20% Executive Director. 10% of President. 100% of contracted expenses and 10% Administration expenses.
$25,143 spent16% of program spendingSpeaking: Spoke to parents of teenagers, youth workers and students in a variety of settings. 2,000 people reached. Expenses include 10% of Executive Directors salary, 10% of President's salary, 100% of actual expenses and 10% admin/office supplies.
$8,661 spent$4,200 earned by the program5% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $159,802.
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.
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 $119k to $156k (+31%).
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.
87% of YOUTH MINISTRY CONSULTANTS’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 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
Rebecca Jacobson
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $5k → $14k.
3 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 63% 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 MINISTRY CONSULTANTS’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 MINISTRY CONSULTANTS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
76% 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 MINISTRY CONSULTANTS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 99% · 2022 99% · 2023 55% — 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.
Where its funders are
63% of YOUTH MINISTRY CONSULTANTS'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 $50k that is directly attributable, 66% of it comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $84k 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.
Against its field
YOUTH MINISTRY CONSULTANTS is better cushioned than half of the 7,334 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,334 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like YOUTH MINISTRY CONSULTANTS
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
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 MINISTRY CONSULTANTS: 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 MINISTRY CONSULTANTS?
- YOUTH MINISTRY CONSULTANTS (Minnesota) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $133,728 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($75,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 63% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does YOUTH MINISTRY CONSULTANTS have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $133,728 in grants to YOUTH MINISTRY CONSULTANTS, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of YOUTH MINISTRY CONSULTANTS?
- VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM is the largest funder on record, with $75,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like YOUTH MINISTRY CONSULTANTS 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 6 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