Causes · Youth development · large
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.
The short version
- 11,584 funders gave $6.4B to 1,545 large youth development organizations (large ($10M and up)) across recent IRS filings.
- The most focused funder is National FFA Foundation Inc, giving 140.2× the national rate to large youth development organizations.
- The largest non-DAF funder is Lilly Endowment Inc, at $277M.
- The large youth development organization drawing the most is Boys & Girls Clubs of America, at $433M.
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.
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.