Youth Core Ministries
Legal name: Youth Core Ministries Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 821252813
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2019–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Jul 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Greensburg, KS, USA
- Phone
- 6207232727
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Christianity
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,301,925
- Expenses
- $2,235,548
- Assets
- $1,663,067
- Liabilities
- $34,980
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DEBORAH FACTOR (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER)
Highest reported compensation
- JOEL WILLIAMSON (CHIEF OF STAFF AND FINANCE): $83,370 total reported compensation
- DEBORAH FACTOR (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER): $69,652 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Youth Core Ministries’ mission is to forever transform our communities through leading kids to Jesus, connecting them to caring adults, and wrapping around families to solve poverty. Born in Kinsley, KS, but calls Pratt his home for 64 years, Jeff is married to Sandy and has 3 children and 6 grandchildren. He is an elder and Sunday school teacher at Trinity Evangelical Church and has served his Pratt community for many years. Owner of Taylor Printing and 4-T Investments, he served on the Pratt City Commission for 25 years and currently serves on The People’s Bank Board for the last 30 years. Youth for Christ successfully resumed its ministry in Pratt with Jeff’s encouragement, and he was the founder of the annual YFC Pig Roast fundraiser to help support the Pratt ministry. Jeff loves hunting and fishing and spending time with family, especially spoiling grandchildren. Pe.
What it reported doing in 2024
Youth core ministries [ycm] seeks to impact rural communities by showing jesus to kids, families and communities through intentionally wrapping around families to solve poverty.youth core ministries seeks to impact rural communities by showing transformational relationships and unconditional love. We use youth, family, and community-based programming; drawing alongside them as they move from poverty to plenty and to a deeper understanding of their value in the kingdom of god.in 2024, we ministered to approximately 1,400 people per week. We had 30 active programs in 15 communities and 2 states. Ycm ministered to 338 teens through its core life and camp programs, having 34 salvations and 111 rededications. We had 228 school mentoring pairs and 44 community mentoring paris through core mentoring. In core community, since 2015 we have had 247 individuals come out of financial poverty and many more find financial stability.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 88% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 90% 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.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 80
- Transparency & Controls: 94
- Accountability: 91
- Sustainability: 43
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 81.4%; rating input score 81
- Program expense ratio: 83.8%; rating input score 84
- Fundraising efficiency: $23.6 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 64; 64th 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 2.9%; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.74; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 6.8%; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 58.8% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 11.4% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.4% per year; rating input score 100; 37th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 81.4% of revenue deployed · 83.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.9M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $83K · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 32 of 32 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2019 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 44/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 28/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 42/100.