Dynamic Youth Ministries 
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Summary
Dynamic Youth Ministries (DYM) provides programs, curriculum, materials, and training designed to bring children and youth into a living, dynamic relationship with Jesus Christ. The three divisions of DYM are: Cadets, GEMS, and ThereforeGo Ministries. These divisions partner with churches in meeting the unique needs of boys, girls, early teens, high school youth, and emerging adults.
Contact information
Mailing address:
Dynamic Youth Ministries
1333 Alger Street SE
Grand Rapids, MI 49507
Website: dynamicyouthministries.org
Phone: (616) 241-5616
Organization details
EIN: 381367098
CEO/President: Rick Zomer/ Steve Bootsma
Chairman: Ron Mohr
Board size: 17
Founder:
Ruling year: 1950
Tax deductible: Yes
Fiscal year end: 02/28
Member of ECFA: Yes
Member of ECFA since: 2000
Purpose
The Calvinist Cadet Corps is an independent (non-denominational) youth ministry organization whose purpose is to provide the local church with a ministry program that will enable them to effectively share Christ's love with boys from their church and community.
GEMS offers girls the perfect place to learn and grow as they discover who God created them to be. Clubs are offered in local churches and Christian organizations throughout the U.S., Canada, and 15 additional countries. Our mission is to bring girls everywhere into a living, dynamic relationship with Jesus Christ.
ThereforeGo Ministries helps churches challenge youth and emerging adults to commit their lives to Jesus Christ and transform this world for Him.
Mission statement
Our mission is to bring children and youth into a dynamic and personal relationship with Jesus Christ. We accomplish this by providing biblically-based, Christ-centered programs, curriculum, materials, leadership training, and events designed to equip and encourage our partner churches and their leaders to implement relational children, youth and emerging adult ministry.
Statement of faith
ThereforeGo Ministries uses the following to express its Statement of Faith:
The Bible is the inspired, infallible Word of God, and it serves as our rule for faith and life.
God has revealed himself as Father, Son and Holy Spirit, and that in Jesus Christ all the fullness of the godhead dwells bodily.
God created the heavens and the earth, and humankind was created in the image and likeness of God. Because of Adam's sin humankind is separated from God and unable on its own to be reconciled to God.
The sacrificial death and bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ has provided the only way of reconciliation with God, which is why we call him Savior.
Jesus Christ was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the virgin Mary, lived a sinless life and now reigns at God's right hand, which is why we call him Lord.
Through Jesus' redemption, all of creation can be claimed and restored through the Spirit. Therefore, we are ambassadors of Christ's Kingdom in all of society.
Salvation is God's free gift based upon the atoning work of Christ, and this gift is affected by the regenerating work of the Holy Spirit in the hearts of people and received by faith in the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
Jesus Christ will come again to judge the living and the dead. The righteous-those who are justified by faith in Christ-will inherit eternal life, and the wicked-those who remain in their wickedness because they reject Christ-will be condemned eternally.
We believe that the local church plays the central role in the fulfillment of the Great Commission and that the spiritual unity of believers comprises the one body of our Lord Jesus Christ.
People who are apart from God matter to God, and therefore matter to the church. For this reason, it is the individual Christian's and the church's responsibility to proclaim the gospel in word and deed, by every means possible, through a life of holiness, service and love.
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Transparency grade
C
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Financial efficiency ratings
Sector: Evangelism
| Category | Rating | Overall rank | Sector rank |
| Overall efficiency rating | | 161 of 1479 | 6 of 43 |
| Fund acquisition rating | | 442 of 1479 | 8 of 43 |
| Resource allocation rating | | 56 of 1479 | 3 of 43 |
| Asset utilization rating | | 590 of 1480 | 18 of 43 |
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Financial ratios
| Funding ratios | Sector median | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 |
Return on fundraising efforts Return on fundraising efforts = Fundraising expense / Total contributions | 6% | 1% | 2% | 3% | 2% | 2% |
Fundraising cost ratio Fundraising cost ratio = Fundraising expense / Total revenue | 5% | 0% | 1% | 1% | 1% | 1% |
Contributions reliance Contributions reliance = Total contributions / Total revenue | 95% | 40% | 32% | 40% | 49% | 56% |
Fundraising expense ratio Fundraising expense ratio = Fundraising expense / Total expenses | 6% | 0% | 1% | 1% | 1% | 1% |
Other revenue reliance Other revenue reliance = Total other revenue / Total revenue | 5% | 60% | 68% | 60% | 51% | 44% |
| Operating ratios | Sector median | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 |
Program expense ratio Program expense ratio = Program services / Total expenses | 81% | 93% | 89% | 80% | 84% | 83% |
Spending ratio Spending ratio = Total expenses / Total revenue | 98% | 116% | 106% | 100% | 101% | 104% |
Program output ratio Program output ratio = Program services / Total revenue | 79% | 108% | 95% | 80% | 86% | 86% |
Savings ratio Savings ratio = Surplus (deficit) / Total revenue | 2% | -16% | -6% | 0% | -1% | -4% |
Reserve accumulation rate Reserve accumulation rate = Surplus (deficit) / Net assets | 2% | -30% | -5% | 0% | -2% | -4% |
General and admin ratio General and admin ratio = Management and general expense / Total expenses | 11% | 7% | 10% | 19% | 15% | 16% |
| Investing ratios | Sector median | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 |
Total asset turnover Total asset turnover = Total expenses / Total assets | 1.31 | 1.63 | 0.67 | 1.52 | 1.18 | 0.94 |
Degree of long-term investment Degree of long-term investment = Total assets / Total current assets | 1.47 | 1.24 | 1.21 | 1.05 | 1.19 | 1.10 |
Current asset turnover Current asset turnover = Total expenses / Total current assets | 2.31 | 2.01 | 0.82 | 1.60 | 1.40 | 1.04 |
| Liquidity ratios | Sector median | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 |
Current ratio Current ratio = Total current assets / Total current liabilities | 7.93 | 16.75 | 16.75 | 11.32 | 12.09 | 29.52 |
Current liabilities ratio Current liabilities ratio = Total current liabilities / Total current assets | 0.10 | 0.06 | 0.06 | 0.09 | 0.08 | 0.03 |
Liquid reserve level Liquid reserve level = (Total current assets - Total current liabilities) / (Total expenses / 12) | 4.14 | 5.62 | 13.82 | 6.84 | 7.84 | 11.12 |
| Solvency ratios | Sector median | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 |
Liabilities ratio Liabilities ratio = Total liabilities / Total assets | 9% | 23% | 22% | 8% | 7% | 12% |
Debt ratio Debt ratio = Debt / Total assets | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
Reserve coverage ratio Reserve coverage ratio = Net assets / Total expenses | 66% | 48% | 116% | 60% | 79% | 94% |
Financials
| Balance sheet | |||||
| Assets | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 |
| Cash | $238,145 | $148,929 | $723,761 | $1,186,543 | $1,495,443 |
| Receivables, inventories, prepaids | $422,351 | $417,724 | $594,053 | $614,073 | $658,957 |
| Short-term investments | $27,484 | $440,931 | $414,668 | $610,344 | $613,261 |
| Other current assets | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Total current assets | $687,980 | $1,007,584 | $1,732,482 | $2,410,960 | $2,767,661 |
| Long-term investments | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Fixed assets | $0 | $6,231 | $84,627 | $210,861 | $285,130 |
| Other long-term assets | $162,075 | $204,670 | $0 | $239,391 | $4,949 |
| Total long-term assets | $162,075 | $210,901 | $84,627 | $450,252 | $290,079 |
| Total assets | $850,055 | $1,218,485 | $1,817,109 | $2,861,212 | $3,057,740 |
| Liabilities | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 |
| Payables and accrued expenses | $9,399 | $25,120 | $40,070 | $161,154 | $9,767 |
| Other current liabilities | $31,685 | $35,031 | $112,943 | $38,218 | $84,000 |
| Total current liabilities | $41,084 | $60,151 | $153,013 | $199,372 | $93,767 |
| Debt | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Due to (from) affiliates | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Other long-term liabilities | $152,179 | $204,205 | $0 | $0 | $260,325 |
| Total long-term liabilities | $152,179 | $204,205 | $0 | $0 | $260,325 |
| Total liabilities | $193,263 | $264,356 | $153,013 | $199,372 | $354,092 |
| Net assets | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 |
| Without donor restrictions | $624,711 | $954,129 | $1,664,096 | $2,455,701 | $2,142,743 |
| With donor restrictions | $32,081 | $0 | $0 | $206,139 | $560,905 |
| Net assets | $656,792 | $954,129 | $1,664,096 | $2,661,840 | $2,703,648 |
| Revenues and expenses | |||||
| Revenue | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 |
| Total contributions | $480,775 | $246,617 | $1,094,142 | $1,638,854 | $1,575,125 |
| Program service revenue | $493,632 | $446,938 | $1,123,313 | $944,538 | $843,886 |
| Membership dues | $27,612 | $2,925 | $84,859 | $74,688 | $74,396 |
| Investment income | $17,011 | $17,243 | $516,918 | $3,745 | $26,780 |
| Other revenue | $168,132 | $61,795 | ($52,461) | $682,680 | $268,599 |
| Total other revenue | $706,387 | $528,901 | $1,672,629 | $1,705,651 | $1,213,661 |
| Total revenue | $1,187,162 | $775,518 | $2,766,771 | $3,344,505 | $2,788,786 |
| Expenses | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 |
| Program services | $1,284,275 | $736,015 | $2,216,293 | $2,861,047 | $2,391,461 |
| Management and general | $93,826 | $81,497 | $524,306 | $495,266 | $465,186 |
| Fundraising | $3,660 | $4,873 | $30,000 | $30,000 | $30,000 |
| Total expenses | $1,381,761 | $822,385 | $2,770,599 | $3,386,313 | $2,886,647 |
| Change in net assets | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 |
| Surplus (deficit) | ($194,599) | ($46,867) | ($3,828) | ($41,808) | ($97,861) |
| Other changes in net assets | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Total change in net assets | ($194,599) | ($46,867) | ($3,828) | ($41,808) | ($97,861) |
Compensation
| Name | Title | Compensation |
| Richard Zomer Thru October '24 | Exec Directo | $114,925 |
| Steven Bootsma | Exec Directo | $111,342 |
Compensation data as of: 8/31/2025
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