Who funds youth development
$28.3B reached 37,983 youth development organizations across the 2022 and 2023 filings. The money concentrates: the few largest organizations draw a heavy share of it.
The short version
- $28.3B in tracked US grants reached 37,983 youth development organizations across the FY2022 and FY2023 IRS filings.
- The single largest recipient, Rutgers University, drew $1.6B, 6% of all tracked youth development funding.
- The most committed funder is Young Life, which gives 45.3× the national rate, with 99% of its grants going to youth development.
- Most youth development money lands on organizations in California, 10% of the tracked total.
Funders most focused on youth development
Not the biggest checks, the most committed. Each funder's share of giving to youth development, against the national rate, shrunk toward that rate so a small specialist needs real volume to rank. The multiple is how many times the national rate it gives.
Organizations that draw the most
The youth development organizations receiving the most grant money, sized by dollars. Pick one to see who funds it.
Where the money lands
The states whose organizations draw the most youth development money.
Largest funders of youth development
Funders by organization size
Who funds youth development organizations at each size, with the funders most focused on them. Useful if you are small and the big-institution funders are not a fit.
Questions and answers
- What counts as youth development in this data?
- Each grant is placed by its stated purpose and the recipient's mission; where that is unclear we fall back to the recipient's IRS activity category. Youth development covers every grant placed there, counted by where the money lands.
- What is the difference between the largest and the most committed funders of youth development?
- The largest by dollars are Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund and Rutgers University Foundation, but they spread money across many causes. The most committed concentrate on youth development: Young Life gives 45.3× the national rate, with 99% of its grants going there.
- How can a youth development nonprofit find funders?
- Look beyond the biggest names to the specialists, the funders giving youth development an outsized share of their budget, and to the states where youth development money concentrates, led by California. Both are listed on this page.
- How recent is this youth development funding data?
- It is read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file filings for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, the two years with complete coverage. US charity filings lag 12 to 24 months.
More from the funding graph
Each grant is placed by its stated purpose and the recipient's mission; where that is unclear we fall back to the recipient's IRS activity category. Grant figures are read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file XML for fiscal years 2022 and 2023. Source: IRS Form 990 downloads.