California · Nonprofit
YOUTHFIRST
YOUTHFIRST (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $107,494 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($52,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 84% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $193k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $107k
- Net assets
- $104k
What Youthfirst does
Mission
Faith based outreach to underserved urban teens emphasizing leadership development and mentoring.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Food program-Providing healthy meals and snacks for approximately 100 teens who are experiencing food insecurity. We do this on a weekly basis. Mentors also take students out for a meal when they meet together.
$32,171 spent40% of program spendingCamping program-providing week long summer camps in natural settings outside the city for at risk urban youth Includes room board and all activities for approximately 50 teens and mentors.
$29,919 spent37% of program spendingWeekly gatherings- We provide several weekly events that provide activities and community for students. These meetings provide space sports equipment drama and comedy skit materials games video games television etc. for 100 students.
$18,090 spent23% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $80,180.
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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $148k to $104k (−30%).
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.
100% of YOUTHFIRST’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (83% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $9k → $11k.
5 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 84% 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 YOUTHFIRST’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
YOUTHFIRST leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
84% 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 YOUTHFIRST.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 80% · 2018 88% · 2019 100% · 2020 96% · 2021 91% · 2022 55% · 2023 88% — 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
84% of YOUTHFIRST'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 $17k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $90k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
YOUTHFIRST receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $107k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,688 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like YOUTHFIRST
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.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for YOUTHFIRST: 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 YOUTHFIRST?
- YOUTHFIRST (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $107,494 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($52,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 84% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does YOUTHFIRST have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $107,494 in grants to YOUTHFIRST, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of YOUTHFIRST?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $52,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like YOUTHFIRST 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 FY2024 (financials across 2021–2024), 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