Grand Rapids Youth for Christ Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 381578801
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Grand Rapids, MI, USA
- Phone
- 6164779460
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Youth Development – Religious Leadership
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,018,656
- Expenses
- $2,474,444
- Assets
- $1,650,489
- Liabilities
- $239,774
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Daniel Kregel (Executive Director)
Highest reported compensation
- Daniel Kregel (Executive Director): $140,676 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
West Michigan Youth for Christ seeks to reach young people everywhere, working with the local church and like-minded partners to raise up followers of Jesus who lead by godly lifestyle, devotion to the Bible and prayer, passion for sharing Christs love and social involvement.
What it reported doing in 2024
WMYFC has a goal to reach young people everywhere to raise up lifelong followers of Jesus Christ. To accomplish this purpose they are active in area high schools and middle schools with hundreds of volunteers to make an impact on a students life with the love of Jesus. Volunteers accomplish this through intentional contact with students by weekly meetings, weekend events, service projects and summer camp. WMYFC also reaches out to kids in the juvenile justice system with mentoring relationships. Frequent connections, one-to-one contacts, a balanced program of Bible study, small group and teachings seek to provide the physical, emotional and spiritual needs of these young people, with the hope that these structures will sustain the teens to successfully enter their community and churches.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 95% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 63
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 22
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 74.2%; rating input score 74
- Program expense ratio: 59.9%; rating input score 60
- Fundraising efficiency: $5.01 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -22.6%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.67; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.15; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 5.7%; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3.1% per year; rating input score 100; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.1% per year; rating input score 100; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 11.2% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 74.2% of revenue deployed · 59.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 11 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.5M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $141K · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 32 of 32 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 17/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 6/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 24/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 49/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 51/100.