How much does Boys & Girls Clubs of America (Group Return) give?

Boys & Girls Clubs of America (Group Return) reported 357 itemized grants totaling $45,726,872, out of $116,734,016 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 436 and 574 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Boys & Girls Clubs of America (Group Return) fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Youth Development (93%), Human Services (2%), Arts & Culture (2%).

Who are Boys & Girls Clubs of America (Group Return)'s largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Atlanta Inc ($21M), Boys & Girls Clubs of Cleveland ($12M), Boys & Girls Club of Southeast Georgia Inc ($9.0M).

Does Boys & Girls Clubs of America (Group Return) fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 12% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Boys & Girls Clubs of America (Group Return)?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Boys & Girls Clubs of America, Inspire Brands Foundation Inc, Rite Aid Healthy Futures.

Where is Boys & Girls Clubs of America (Group Return) based?

Boys & Girls Clubs of America (Group Return) is based in GA.

Boys & Girls Clubs of America (Group Return)

Boys & Girls Clubs of America (Group Return) at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· Public charity

Boys & Girls Clubs of America (Group Return)

To promote exclusively the social welfare of boys and girls in the various states; to provide guidance and to promote the health, social, educational, vocational, character, and cultural development of boys and girls in the various states without regard to race, color, creed, or national origin; and to receive, invest, and disburse…

$117M

Granted FY2024still arriving

357

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$3.9M

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$457MHuman Services$10MArts & Culture$9.1MEducation$7.0MRecreation & Sports$4.5MReligion$800kCommunity Improvement$738kCrime & Legal$182kOther$0

02FY2024 · 357 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured

The 357 grants below total $45,726,872, the rows itemized in this filing. The $116,734,016 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $71,007,144 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 $10k35 grants · $259k
$10k–50k150 grants · $3.6M
$50k–250k126 grants · $15M
$250k+46 grants · $26M

$46,388

Median grant

States reached

$48M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE TENNESSEE VALLEY	$3,925,801
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF OCOEE REGION	$1,575,772
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DUMPLIN VALLEY	$1,306,133
B&GC OF METRO ATLANTA	$1,165,867
BGC OF NORTHEAST OHIO	$1,123,987
BGC CENTRAL OHIO	$886,435
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTH CENTRAL TENNESSEE	$810,073
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF DUNDEE TOWNSHIP	$780,378
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CHATTANOOGA	$744,748
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER KINGSPORT	$723,447
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF ELGIN	$626,506
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LIVINGSTON COUNTY	$605,993
B&GC OF SOUTHEAST GEORGIA	$582,119
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE	$536,993
UNION LEAGUE BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS	$498,409

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 (FY21–23, $1.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 45% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

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.

$485M · 654 repeat orgs$3.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +49% since the first grant, against +15% for those funded once.

654 repeat relationships: 347 still active in FY2024, 307 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

654

105

Total granted

$485M

$3.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%

+15%

Still filing today

83%

61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $443k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Youth DevelopmentHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsEducationHealthCrime & LegalOther

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 CLUB OF SOUTHEAST GEORGIA INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $9.0M · revenue +36% · 43% of their budget
BG
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE VALLEY INC
6× · 2017–2024 · $8.7M · revenue +256%
UL
UNION LEAGUE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS
8× · 2017–2024 · $8.3M · revenue +83%

Funded once

BG
Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Salt Lake
one grant, 2017 · $306k
LA
Luke AFB Youth Programs
one grant, 2022 · $164k
BG
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF OHIO INCgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $163k · revenue +364% · 98% of their budget

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 Clubs of the Northwoods Inc

To empower all youth, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, and responsible citizens.

Youth Development

Boys & Girls Clubs of the San Gorgonio Pass

To inspire and enable all young people especially those in need to realize their full potential as productive, responsible and caring citizens.

Education

Boys & Girls Club of Bloomfield

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

—

Boys and Girls Club of Carroll County Inc

To inspire and enable all youth to realize their full potential as productive, responsible and caring citizens.

Youth Development

Boys & Girls Clubs of the Lowcountry Inc

To provide guidance to youth.

—

Boys & Girls Club of Georgetown

None

Youth Development

Boys & Girls Clubs of Cumberland County

To inspire all youth especially those who need us the most to become productive, responsible and caring citizens.

Youth Development

Boys and Girls Clubs of Siouxland Inc

To inspire and enable all young people to realize their full potential as productive, responsible and caring citizens.

Youth Development

The Boys & Girls Club of Washington County Inc

To enable all young people to realize their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens.to achieve our mission we offer character building experiences for the youth of washington county through the form of social,…

Youth Development

Boys & Girls Clubs of Barron County Inc

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

Youth Development

Boys & Girls Clubs of Southeastern Nc Foundation Inc

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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 Dar Boys & Girls Club. 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

650 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. 650 of the 767 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.

105

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

283

Early backer (in before they grew)

611/650

Grantees still filing

518/650

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Youth Development$261,567,095Other$113,564,564Education$1,247,566Human Services$723,575Recreation & Sports$708,948

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 AmericaGA562× affinity636 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Boys & Girls Clubs of America · Inspire Brands Foundation Inc · Rite Aid Healthy Futures · Cal Ripken Sr Foundation Inc · The Gap Foundation · The Jcpenney Foundation · National Congress of American Indians Fund · Dick's Sporting Goods Foundation · Good360 · Pacific Youth Foundation · Dollar General Literacy Foundation · Charles Schwab Foundation

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

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

7get no government money at all

143report 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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