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YOUTH ODYSSEY INC

YOUTH ODYSSEY INC (Texas) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,169,326 to it, the largest being COASTAL BEND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($426,403). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$627k
Funders on record
18
Grants received
$1.2M
Net assets
$312k
13/18 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 36%
01What it does

What Youth Odyssey Inc does

Mission

Youth odyssey is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit on a mission to provide at risk youth, ages 10-17, with positive youth development through adventure programming, operates an educational outreach program to serve at risk children in cooperation with local school districts and county.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Provides hands on experience to inner city kids teaching life skills and applying these skills through adventure activities that include rock climbing, bouldering, hiking, backpacking, camping, and more. The six life skills we focus on are: communication, teamwork, problem-solving, goal setting, leadership, and trust. We provided life changing opportunities to approximately 800-900 coastal bend children in 2025.

    $532,716 spent$11,840 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $532,716.

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($540k) Expenses 100 ($259k) Net assets 100 ($295k)2018 Revenue 57 ($309k) Expenses 110 ($286k) Net assets 108 ($319k)2019 Revenue 59 ($319k) Expenses 116 ($301k) Net assets 114 ($337k)2020 Revenue 56 ($301k) Expenses 144 ($373k) Net assets 90 ($265k)2021 Revenue 80 ($429k) Expenses 157 ($408k) Net assets 104 ($306k)2022 Revenue 97 ($522k) Expenses 173 ($449k) Net assets 128 ($379k)2023 Revenue 115 ($623k) Expenses 220 ($572k) Net assets 146 ($431k)2024 Revenue 104 ($560k) Expenses 267 ($692k) Net assets 101 ($299k)2025 Revenue 116 ($627k) Expenses 237 ($614k) Net assets 106 ($312k)
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Revenue (116)Expenses (237)Net assets (106)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 2023 to 2024, from $431k to $305k (−29%).

$296k
$323k
$341k
$310k
$355k
$385k
$431k
$305k
$355k
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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.

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2018
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2021
2022
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2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 20% · 2018 34% · 2019 34% · 2020 40% · 2021 24% · 2022 25% · 2023 18% · 2024 9% · 2025 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

98% of YOUTH ODYSSEY INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,802 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$281k
’17
$24k
’18
$18k
’19
−$72k
’20
$21k
’21
$73k
’22
$52k
’23
−$132k
’24
$13k
’25
0.8
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.

Chief executive

Rebekah A Meyer

Executive director

Board chair

Lazrik Pettis

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed781189101099
Joined·+3+3+0+2+3+0+5+3
No longer listed·20312063
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $109k → $194k.

2 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% 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 ODYSSEY INC’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 ODYSSEY INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 36% 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

43% 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 ODYSSEY INC.

36%
largest funder
59%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 51% · 2018 63% · 2019 63% · 2020 55% · 2021 34% · 2022 49% · 2023 33% — 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

75% of YOUTH ODYSSEY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 72% 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

96% of YOUTH ODYSSEY INC's grant income comes from Texas funders.

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TX

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

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Texas out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $427k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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 ODYSSEY INC's funding base is broadening — from 6 funders to 9 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin2% · below the median
Months of reserve0.8mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)2% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,661 crime & legal nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like YOUTH ODYSSEY INC

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

87% of spending goes to programs.

Program 87%Management 7%Fundraising 6%

Governance

7
board members
57%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

99%

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 ODYSSEY INC?
YOUTH ODYSSEY INC (Texas) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,169,326 to it, the largest being COASTAL BEND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($426,403). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does YOUTH ODYSSEY INC have?
IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $1,169,326 in grants to YOUTH ODYSSEY INC, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of YOUTH ODYSSEY INC?
COASTAL BEND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $426,403 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like YOUTH ODYSSEY INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 18 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