How do I find funders for a mid-size youth development nonprofit?

Start with the funders most focused on mid-size youth development organizations, currently Young Women's Christian Association of Greater Los Angeles, Samantha Becky Mark Foundation, Ed Snider Youth Hockey Supporting Organization Inc. Donor-advised funds and mega-funds are excluded, so these are funders that genuinely back organizations your size, not pass-through accounts.

How much grant money goes to mid-size youth development organizations?

$11.9B reached 5,820 mid-size youth development organizations from 24,516 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.

Causes · Youth development · mid-size

Who funds mid-size youth development organizations

The funders that back mid-size youth development organizations are specialists, not generalists: Young Women's Christian Association of Greater Los Angeles gives them 72.2× the national rate, with 99% of its grants going here.

$11.9B

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The short version

24,516 funders gave $11.9B to 5,820 mid-size youth development organizations (mid-size ($1M to $10M)) across recent IRS filings.
The most focused funder is Young Women's Christian Association of Greater Los Angeles, giving 72.2× the national rate to mid-size youth development organizations.
The largest non-DAF funder is Boys & Girls Clubs of America, at $388M.
The mid-size youth development organization drawing the most is Indiana Youth Institute Inc, at $106M.

Funders most focused on mid-size 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.

Young Women's Christian Association of Greater Los Angeles72.2×$36M · 99% of its giving Samantha Becky Mark Foundation68.7×$21M · 99% of its giving Ed Snider Youth Hockey Supporting Organization Inc68.7×$39M · 93% of its giving Boys & Girls Club of Pbc68.6×$20M · 100% of its giving Northern Star Council67.5×$21M · 98% of its giving McCrossan Foundation Inc67.3×$17M · 100% of its giving Big Brothers Big Sisters Association of Florida Inc67.1×$46M · 90% of its giving Crossroads of America Council Bsa Foundation Inc66.7×$16M · 100% of its giving

Largest funders by dollars

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

1Boys & Girls Clubs of America$388M 2Lilly Endowment Inc$187M 3Florida Network of Youth and Family Services Inc$136M 4Big Brothers Big Sisters Of America$59M 5Alice L Walton Foundation$48M 6Big Brothers Big Sisters Association of Florida Inc$46M 7Friends of the Children$41M 8The California Endowment$40M

Mid-size youth development organizations that draw the most

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

5,810 other mid-size youth development organizations$11B

Questions and answers

How do I find funders for a mid-size youth development nonprofit?: Start with the funders most focused on mid-size youth development organizations, currently Young Women's Christian Association of Greater Los Angeles, Samantha Becky Mark Foundation, Ed Snider Youth Hockey Supporting Organization Inc. 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 mid-size organization here?: Size is the organization's median total revenue across its filings: mid-size ($1M to $10M). 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 mid-size youth development organizations?: $11.9B reached 5,820 mid-size youth development organizations from 24,516 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

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home

State money flows

the interactive map of money crossing state lines

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.