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Advocates for Youth

ADVOCATES FOR YOUTH partners with young people and their adult allies to champion youth rights to bodily autonomy and build power to transform policies, programs and systems to secure sexual health and equity for all youth.

$46k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$841kCivil Rights$303kInternational$286kEducation$197kYouth Development$185kCommunity Improvement$80kHuman Services$72kSocial Science$50kOther$0
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $21,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $45,535 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $24,535 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $6k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
$15,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATIONAL AHEC ORGANIZATION$15,000
IPAS$6,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–22, $302k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 79% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%BOLD FUTURES: $9k → 14%THE PRIDE CENTER: $25k → 13%NARAL PRO-CHOICE NORTH CAROLINA: $23k → 11%SISTERSONG: $50k → 13%REACH LA: $40k → 14%NARAL PRO-CHOICE NORTH CAROLINA: $20k → 11%THE PRIDE CENTER: $5k → 13%NARAL PRO-CHOICE NORTH CAROLINA: $20k → 11%TEEN HEALTH MISSISSIPPI: $20k → 23%TEEN HEALTH MISSISSIPPI: $15k → 23%TEEN HEALTH MISSISSIPPI: $15k → 23%POWER TO DECIDE: $30k → 14%POWER TO DECIDE: $15k → 14%POWER TO DECIDE: $15k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
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IL
WI
NY
MA
OR
OH
NJ
CA
CO
MD
AZ
NM
TN
NC
DC
LA
MS
AL
GA
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FL

Grants abroad, by region: $80k on the FY2025 return

Schedule F, as filed: 1 region. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Sub-Saharan Africa$80k · 100% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: TO MANAGE DIGITAL DISSEMINATION OF REGIONAL SEXUALITY EDUCATION RESOURCES AND COORDINATE CONVENINGS OF REGIONAL PARTNER ORGANIZATIONS

How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 10% of Advocates for Youth’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 8% of the giving stays in DC; by stated purpose, 1%.

Advocates for Youthlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 8.8% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.5M · 20 repeat orgs$525k to everyone else

20 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

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24

Total granted

$1.5M
$504k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+60%

Still filing today

75%
79%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesEducationInternationalCommunity ImprovementCivil RightsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • IR
    International Rescue Committee INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $280k · revenue +81%
  • ER
    EL RIO SANTA CRUZ NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH CENTER INC
    5× · 2017–2022 · $270k · revenue +126%
  • CN
    CHILDREN'S NATIONAL
    3× · 2018–2020 · $166k · revenue +38%

Funded once

  • PP
    PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTH FLORIDA AND THE TREASURE COAST INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $55k · revenue +79%
  • IO
    Institute of Women & Ethnic Studies
    one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue -43%
  • SI
    SISTERSONG INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +525%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
The Population Council Inc

We generate ideas, produce evidence, and design solutions to improve the lives of underserved populations around the world. we take a multidisciplinary, intergenerational, life-cycle approach that contributes to (see schedule o)four global…

International
2
Women's Law Project

Women's law project creates a more just and equitable society by advancing the rights and status of all women throughout their lives. to this end, we engage in high-impact litigation, advocacy, and education. the core values of women's law…

Civil Rights
3
Accessmatters

Accessmatters' mission is to protect, expand, and enhance access to sexual and reproductive health care and information for all people. accessmatters fulfills its mission by providing services and information directly to people, by…

Health
4
Gender Ideal Inc dba Reproductive & Maternal Health Com

Gender IDEAL launched the Reproductive & Maternal Health Compass. RMH Compass works to support and protect reproductive and maternal health (RMH) benefits for all workers in the U.S. by engaging with employers to assess and expand their…

Civil Rights
5
Guttmacher Institute Inc

The institute is a leading research and policy organization committed to advancing sexual and reproductive health and rights worldwide.

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6
The International Institute On Race Equality and Human Rights

The international institute on race, equality and human rights contributes to the promotion and defense of human rights, through training, technical assistance, advocacy, and strategic litigation conducted at the regional and international…

International
7
2020 Mom Policy Center for Maternal

The policy center is improving maternal mental health outcomes through closing gaps in care delivery, including improving detection and access to evidence-based and informed clinical and community-based care. the policy center has been…

Health
8
Legacy Community Health Services Inc

The mission of legacy community health services is, "driving healthy change in our communities." our vision is, "connecting our communities to health every day, in every way."

Health
9
Management Sciences for Health Inc

(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.

International
10
Alliancechicago

Alliancechicago is the continuation of an existing effort to bring together charitable federally qualified health centers (fqhcs) to collaboratively pursue their charitable missions by better serving their disadvantaged patients with…

Health
11
Planned Parenthood Los Angeles

To provide convenient and affordable access to a comprehensive range of quality reproductive health care and sexual health information through patient services, education, and advocacy.

Health
12
Planned Parenthood Minnesota North Dakota South Dakota

Affirming human rights to reproductive health and freedom.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ipas; the most unlike its peers is Cambridge Reproductive Health Consultants. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

37 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 37 of the 46 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
36/37
Grantees still filing
26/37
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

EL RIO SANTA CRUZ NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH CENTER INC: $270,000 · HealthEL RIO SANTA CRUZ NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH …CHILDREN'S NATIONAL: $165,725 · HealthCHILDREN'S NATIONALCOLORADO ORGANIZATION FOR LATINA OPPORTUNITY AND REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS: $80,000 · HealthCOLORADO ORGANIZATION FOR LATINA OPPOR…PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTH FLORIDA AND THE TREASURE COAST INC: $55,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTH FLORIDA AN…Children's Hospital Los Angeles: $41,250 · HealthChildren's Hospital Los AngelesAIDS ALABAMA INC: $40,000 · HealthAIDS ALABAMA INC+5 more: $42,500 · Health+5 morePRO-CHOICE NC FOUNDATION: $63,000 · Human ServicesPRO-CHOICE NC FO…POWER TO DECIDE: $60,000 · Human ServicesPOWER TO DECIDETEEN HEALTH MISSISSIPPI: $50,000 · Human ServicesTEEN HEALTH MISS…SISTERSONG INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesSISTERSONG INCRealistic Education in Action Coalition to Foster Health REACH LA: $40,000 · Human ServicesRealistic Educat…THE GAY & LESBIAN COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER FORT LAUDERDALE INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesTHE GAY & LESBIA…+1 more: $9,000 · Human ServicesInternational Rescue Committee INC: $280,000 · InternationalInternational Re…+2 more: $12,000 · InternationalMemphis Center For Reproductive Health Inc: $63,000 · OtherMemphis Center For Rep…ILLINOIS CAUCUS FOR ADOLESCENT HEALTH INC: $52,000 · OtherILLINOIS CAUCUS FOR AD…PORTLAND PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $36,000 · OtherPORTLAND PUBLIC SCHOOL…SACRAMENTO CITY UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT: $36,000 · OtherSACRAMENTO CITY UNIFIE…SCHOOL DISTRICT OF HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY: $36,000 · OtherSCHOOL DISTRICT OF HIL…Institute of Women & Ethnic Studies: $50,000 · OtherInstitute of Women & E…LAVENDER YOUTH RECREATION & INFORMATION CENTER INC LYRIC: $40,000 · OtherLAVENDER YOUTH RECREAT…NEO Philanthropy Inc: $23,000 · OtherNEO Philanthropy Inc+9 more: $71,500 · Other+9 moreMISSISSIPPI FIRST INC: $120,000 · Community ImprovementMISSISSIP…THE CENTER FOR COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS: $45,000 · Community ImprovementTHE CENTE…MIKVA CHALLENGE GRANT FOUNDATION: $30,000 · EducationLATINOS SALUD INC: $20,000 · EducationHOPE IN A BOX INC: $20,000 · EducationTHE YOUNG WOMEN'S PROJECT: $17,000 · EducationURGE UNITE FOR REPRODUCTIVE & GENDER EQUITY: $70,000 · Civil RightsNATIONAL ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN WOMEN'S FORUM: $9,000 · Civil Rights
Health$694,475Human Services$302,000International$292,000Other$407,500Community Improvement$165,000Education$87,000Civil Rights$79,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $280,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEL RIO SANTA CRUZ NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH CENTER INC: $270,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S NATIONAL: $165,725 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMISSISSIPPI FIRST INC: $120,000 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetCOLORADO ORGANIZATION FOR LATINA OPPORTUNITY AND REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS: $80,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetURGE UNITE FOR REPRODUCTIVE & GENDER EQUITY: $70,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetMemphis Center For Reproductive Health Inc: $63,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetPRO-CHOICE NC FOUNDATION: $63,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetPOWER TO DECIDE: $60,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTH FLORIDA AND THE TREASURE COAST INC: $55,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetILLINOIS CAUCUS FOR ADOLESCENT HEALTH INC: $52,000 over 3y, 5.9% of budgetInstitute of Women & Ethnic Studies: $50,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTEEN HEALTH MISSISSIPPI: $50,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetSISTERSONG INC: $50,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS: $45,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $41,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRealistic Education in Action Coalition to Foster Health REACH LA: $40,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetAIDS ALABAMA INC: $40,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLAVENDER YOUTH RECREATION & INFORMATION CENTER INC LYRIC: $40,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetMIKVA CHALLENGE GRANT FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE GAY & LESBIAN COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER FORT LAUDERDALE INC: $30,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetNEO Philanthropy Inc: $23,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE IN A BOX INC: $20,000 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetTHE YOUNG WOMEN'S PROJECT: $17,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetNATIONAL AHEC ORGANIZATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetHIGHLANDER RESEARCH & EDUCATION CENTER INC: $13,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN WOMEN'S FORUM: $9,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOLD FUTURES NM: $9,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCALIFORNIA LATINAS FOR REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE: $9,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetNATIONAL COALITION OF STD DIRECTORS: $7,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBIRTH CONTROL ADVOCATES OF NEW YORK: $6,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetIPAS: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAMBRIDGE REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH CONSULTANTS: $6,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SCHOOL NURSES: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Hopewell FundThe Susan Thompson Bu…Rockefeller Philanthr…Ms Foundation for Wom…Amalgamated Charitabl…Planned Parenthood Fe…Groundswell FundNew Venture FundThe David and Lucile …The Ford FoundationWellspring Philanthro…For Inspiration and R…
Hopewell FundDC24.5× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Hopewell Fund · The Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Ms Foundation for Women Inc · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc · Groundswell Fund · New Venture Fund · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · The Ford Foundation · Wellspring Philanthropic Fund Inc · For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST)

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Advocates for Youth funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Advocates for Youth. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • National Association of School Nurses: 15% of income from government
  • Planned Parenthood of South Florida and the Treasure Coast Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Latinos Salud Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 46 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $86k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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The regranting layer
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$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home