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Who funds large youth development organizations

The funders that back large youth development organizations are specialists, not generalists: Salesmanship Club of Dallas gives them 117.6× the national rate, with 100% of its grants going here. Large youth development institutions draw a deep funder base, 28 on average, so the competition for their attention is intense.

$2.4B
granted
175
organizations
4,854
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.

165 other large youth development organizations$1.6B
Young Life$256MBoys & Girls Clubs of America$150M

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 Salesmanship Club of Dallas, National FFA Foundation Inc, National Boy Scouts of America Foundation. 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 its NTEE classification in the IRS Business Master File.
How much grant money goes to large youth development organizations?
$2.4B reached 175 large youth development organizations from 4,854 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; cause is the recipient's NTEE classification in the IRS Business Master File. 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.