Youth For Christ-Wichita Inc

What it reported doing in 2024

Campus life comobines healthy relationships with creative programs to help young people make good choices, establish a solid foundation for life and positively impact their schools. Campus life is a place for middle or high school students to have fun, make friends and talk about matters to other middle or high school students. Campus life provides a balanced approach - physical, mental, social and spiritual - to give pre-teens and teens the skills and hope they need to live in a turbulent world. The purpose of city life is to help young people to develop attitudes and behavior patterns that allow them to function more constructively in society. The City Life work program emphasis the following: 1. Teaching basic life skills, work ethic and employment responsibility. 2. Providing an opportunity for a relationship with a caring adult role model. 3. Promoting and developing positive self-image through Jesus Christ. 4. Creating opportunities for positive peer group experiences. 5. Sharing the good news of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. While all of the Youth for Christ ministires share the same purpose, they meet and interact with students in different areas. City Life meets young people in ther neighborhood or small community, many of whom are at risk and have already had some form of contact with the justice system. Juvenile Justice, through institutions or social service agency contacts, connects trained adults with young poeple to help them make good choices and establish a solid foundation in life. Parent Life connects trained adults with pregnant girls and teenage parents in programs designed to help them make good choices and establish a sold foundation, not only in their lives, but also in the lives of their babies. Every ministry of Youth for Christ seeks to engage young people wherever they are found as life-long followers of Jesus Christ.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 50.4%; rating input score 50
• Program expense ratio: 50.1%; rating input score 50
• Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
• Governance controls: 3 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 43
  • Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
  • Whistleblower policy: Fail
  • Document-retention policy: Fail
  • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
  • 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: Fail

Sustainability

• Operating margin: -0.5%; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.51; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.11; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 4.9% per year; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: -12.7% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: -3.6% per year; rating input score 0; 13th percentile among comparable filings