How much does Boys & Girls Clubs of America give?

Boys & Girls Clubs of America reported 797 grants totaling $121,513,067 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 718 and 855 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Boys & Girls Clubs of America fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Youth Development (92%), Human Services (4%), Arts & Culture (2%).

Who are Boys & Girls Clubs of America's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Dallas Inc ($15M), Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Atlanta Inc ($14M), Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Houston Inc ($9.3M).

Does Boys & Girls Clubs of America fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Boys & Girls Clubs of America?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Boys & Girls Clubs of America (Group Return), Inspire Brands Foundation Inc, Cal Ripken Sr Foundation Inc.

Where is Boys & Girls Clubs of America based?

Boys & Girls Clubs of America is based in GA.

Boys & Girls Clubs of America

Boys & Girls Clubs of America at a glance Mostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

· Public charity

Boys & Girls Clubs of America

The mission of the organization is to operate exclusively for the benefit of, or to carry out the purposes of, boys and girls clubs of america, a d.c.

$122M

Granted FY2024still arriving

797

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$2.7M

Largest

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.

Youth Development$603MHuman Services$26MArts & Culture$11MRecreation & Sports$3.1MEducation$2.9MReligion$1.9MCivil Rights$1.5MEnvironment$1.0MOther$0

02FY2024 · 797 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k74 grants · $564k
$10k–50k240 grants · $6.1M
$50k–250k349 grants · $45M
$250k+134 grants · $69M

$81,098

Median grant

States reached

$95M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
B&GCS OF METRO ATLANTA	$2,704,861
B&GCS OF GREATER DALLAS	$2,083,957
B&GC OF ST JOSEPH COUNTY	$1,432,514
B&GCS OF THE LOS ANGELES HARBOR	$1,308,954
B&GC OF GREATER MILWAUKEE	$1,269,151
B&GC OF GREATER HOUSTON	$1,195,006
B&GC OF WHITTIER	$1,171,683
B&GCS OF SANTA MONICA	$1,062,018
B&GCS OF GREATER NORTHWEST INDIANA (PORTER COUNTY)	$1,056,791
B&GC OF ELKHART COUNTY INC-B&GC OF GREATER GOSHEN	$1,015,175
B&GCS OF MT VERNON	$1,006,940
B&GC OF BLOOMINGTON	$981,496
B&GC OF THE EAST VALLEY	$959,077
B&GCS OF GREATER FORT WORTH	$867,351
THE B&GC OF BURBANK AND GREATER EAST VALLEY INC	$846,835

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $5.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 81% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$643M · 975 repeat orgs$9.4M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +60% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

975 repeat relationships: 703 still active in FY2024, 272 since wound down; 44 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

975

230

Total granted

$643M

$7.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+60%

Still filing today

77%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.7M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Youth DevelopmentHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsEducationHealthPhilanthropyOther

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

BG
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER DALLAS INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $15M · revenue +22% · 32% of their budget
BA
Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Houston Inc
8× · 2017–2024 · $9.3M · revenue +161%
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MILWAUKEE INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $5.7M · revenue +21%

Funded once

TS
THE SALVATION ARMY BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF NC & SC
one grant, 2019 · $789k
BO
B&GC OF MID CENTRAL COAST
one grant, 2019 · $530k
BO
B&GC OF METRO PHOENIX INC
one grant, 2019 · $473k

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.

Boys Girls Club

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Boys & Girls Club of Bloomfield

The corporation provides youth with after school activities to promote education, sports and recreation.

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Boys & Girls Club of Georgetown

None

Youth Development

Boys & Girls Clubs of Southeastern Nc Foundation Inc

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Boys and Girls Club of the Capital Area

To enable all young peolple,especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens.

Youth Development

Boys & Girls Club of Carbon County

The boys & girls club of carbon county was organized to enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to become productive, responsible, and caring citizens.

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Boys & Girls Clubs of St Thomas St John Inc

We are committed to promoting safe, positive, and inclusive environments for all. The three focus areas include: being able to ensure youth graduate from high school with a plan for the future, demonstrating good character, citizenship,…

Youth Development

Boys and Girls Clubs of Carbon Co

Provide a safe place for kids and provide afterschool programs.

Youth Development

Boys and Girls Clubs of Southeast Idaho Inc

To inspire and enable young people, especially those from disadvantaged circumstances, to realize their full potential as productive, responsible, and caring citizens in the southeast idaho area.

Youth Development

Boys & Girls Club of Greater Anchorage Foundation

To promote the well-being of children 6 weeks to 19 years old.

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Benefiting the Boys and Girls Club of America Inc

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Youth Development

Boys and Girls Club of Greater Derry Inc

The organization serves to provide diversified activities for area youth. these core programs include character and leadership development, education and career development, health and life skills, the arts and sports, fitness and…

Youth Development

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys & Girls Clubs of Southwest Virginia Inc; the most unlike its peers is Native Star Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

838 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. 838 of the 1,250 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

416

Early backer (in before they grew)

781/838

Grantees still filing

685/838

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Youth Development$274,819,384Other$121,449,589Recreation & Sports$6,385,634Human Services$4,367,923Education$3,742,986Philanthropy$1,407,546Crime & Legal$948,845

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

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.

Boys & Girls Clubs of America (Group Return)GA562× affinity636 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Boys & Girls Clubs of America (Group Return) · Inspire Brands Foundation Inc · Cal Ripken Sr Foundation Inc · Rite Aid Healthy Futures · Pacific Youth Foundation · National Congress of American Indians Fund · The Jcpenney Foundation · The Gap Foundation · Dick's Sporting Goods Foundation · Good360 · Boys Club of Wake County Inc · Boys and Girls Club of Greater Milwaukee Inc

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 Boys & Girls Clubs of America funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Boys & Girls Clubs of America. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

167report 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.

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