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Who funds large youth development organizations

The funders that back large youth development organizations are specialists, not generalists: National FFA Foundation Inc gives them 140.2× the national rate, with 100% of its grants going here. Large youth development institutions draw a deep funder base, 7 on average, so the competition for their attention is intense.

$6.4B
granted
1,545
organizations
11,584
funders

The short version

Funders most focused on large youth development organizations

Not the biggest checks, the most committed: each gives this size and cause an outsized share of its budget against the national rate, shrunk toward that rate so a small specialist needs real volume to rank.

Largest funders by dollars

Real grantmakers giving the most to large youth development organizations (donor-advised and mega-funds excluded).

Large youth development organizations that draw the most

Sized by grant dollars received. Pick one to see exactly who funds it.

1,535 other large youth development organizations$4.7B
Boys & Girls Clubs of America$433MYoung Life$414M

Questions and answers

How do I find funders for a large youth development nonprofit?
Start with the funders most focused on large youth development organizations, currently National FFA Foundation Inc, Tiger Woods Charity Event Corp, Yellowstone Boys and Girls Ranch Foundat. Donor-advised funds and mega-funds are excluded, so these are funders that genuinely back organizations your size, not pass-through accounts.
What counts as a large organization here?
Size is the organization's median total revenue across its filings: large ($10M and up). Cause is where each grant is placed by its stated purpose and the recipient's mission, falling back to the recipient's IRS activity category where that is unclear.
How much grant money goes to large youth development organizations?
$6.4B reached 1,545 large youth development organizations from 11,584 funders. Money parked in the regranting layer is netted out.
How recent is this data?
It is read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file filings across recent fiscal years. US charity filings lag 12 to 24 months.

More from the funding graph

Size is median total revenue; each grant is placed by its stated purpose and the recipient's mission, falling back to the recipient's IRS activity category where that is unclear. Read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file XML across recent fiscal years, among (c)(3) funders and recipients resolved by EIN, with the regranting layer netted out. Source: IRS Form 990 downloads.