Causes · Youth development · large
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.
The short version
- 4,854 funders gave $2.4B to 175 large youth development organizations (large ($10M and up)) across recent IRS filings.
- The most focused funder is Salesmanship Club of Dallas, giving 117.6× the national rate to large youth development organizations.
- The largest non-DAF funder is Alice L Walton Foundation, at $39M.
- The large youth development organization drawing the most is Young Life, at $256M.
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 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.