Youth for Christ Alaska Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
992894741
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2024–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Anchorage, AK, USA
Phone
9073065349
Rating
74
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Affiliation
Christianity

Reported finances

Revenue
$145,167
Expenses
$145,315
Assets
$31,648
Liabilities
$1,447

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

People named in this filing

  • CHRISTOPHER GATCH (EXECUTIVE DI)
  • FJ HARRIS (CHAIRPERSON)
  • JAN COX (VICE CHAIRPE)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The mission of youth for christ Alaska: yfc ak reaches young people everywhere, working together with the local church and other like-minded partners to develop lifelong followers of jesus who lead by their godliness in lifestyle, devotion to prayer and the word of god, passion for sharing the love of christ and commitment to social involvement.

What it reported doing in 2025

Approximately 110,000 teens, between the ages of 11-19, live in the state of Alaska. Alaska was the state with the highest rate of suicidal death among adolescents in the u.s. In 2020. We seek to change these types of statistics by placing a special emphasis on developing authentic christ- sharing relationships with youth in Alaska youth for christ Alaska reaches students in public schools and community centers across the state; however, that is not all. We are also actively pursuing kids throughout the bush communities as well through prayer, financial and volunteer support we receive from others, yfc Alaska, along with yfc USA, wishes to partner with the body of christ to reach 1,000,000 youth nationwide in the form of christ-sharing relationships.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 90% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 95% 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

SUPPORTED - 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: 70
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 24
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 70.4%; rating input score 70
  • Program expense ratio: 70.4%; rating input score 70

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -0.1%; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.22; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.05; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 54.7%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 35.4% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 9.4% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 4.2% per year; rating input score 100; 40th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 70.4% of revenue deployed · 70.4% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $102K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
  • 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 30/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 21/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 4/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 26/100.