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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…
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 357 grants below total $45,726,872 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $116,734,016 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $71,007,144 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k35 grants · $259k
- $10k–50k150 grants · $3.6M
- $50k–250k126 grants · $15M
- $250k+46 grants · $26M
| 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 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your 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. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +49% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $443k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SOUTHEAST GEORGIA INC8× · 2017–2024 · $9.0M · revenue +36% · 43% of their budget
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE VALLEY INC6× · 2017–2024 · $8.7M · revenue +256%
- ULUNION LEAGUE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS8× · 2017–2024 · $8.3M · revenue +83%
Funded once
- BGBoys & Girls Clubs of Greater Salt Lakeone grant, 2017 · $306k
- LALuke AFB Youth Programsone grant, 2022 · $164k
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF OHIO INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $163k · revenue +364% · 98% of their budget
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To empower all youth, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, and responsible citizens.
To inspire and enable all young people especially those in need to realize their full potential as productive, responsible and caring citizens.
The corporation provides youth with after school activities to promote education, sports and recreation.
To inspire and enable all youth to realize their full potential as productive, responsible and caring citizens.
To provide guidance to youth.
None
To inspire all youth especially those who need us the most to become productive, responsible and caring citizens.
To inspire and enable all young people to realize their full potential as productive, responsible and caring citizens.
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,…
To enable all young people especially those who need us the most, to reach their dreams and full potential as caring, productive, responsible citizens.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys & Girls Clubs of Southwest Virginia Inc and 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.
Your grantees are a median of 52 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
650 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, 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; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Atlanta Inc ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SOUTHEAST GEORGIA INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds UNION LEAGUE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF EAST MISSISSIPPI ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE DUNDEE TOWNSHIP ↗
- Who funds THE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE GULF COAST INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF LANIER INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTH CENTRAL ILLINOIS INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE CHATTAHOOCHEE VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE TENNESSEE VALL ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF LAWRENCE INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER AUGUSTA INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS CLUB OF GREATER KANSAS CITY ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL GEORGIA INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER SCOTTSDALE INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER CINCINNATI ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF ATHENS INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF COLUMBUS INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF NORTH MISSISSIPPI INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF TOPEKA ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF VALDOSTA INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF ALBANY INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE MISSISSIPPI DELTA ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BROWARD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF LIVINGSTON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MANHATTAN INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF TAMPA BAY INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTHERN ILLINOI ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Club of Bartow County Inc ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Clubs Northwest Georgia Inc ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Club of Lake County ↗
- Who funds Boys and Girls Club of Northeast Florida Inc ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE VIRGINIA PENINSULA INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SARASOTA AND DESOTO COUNTIES INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Boys & Girls Clubs of America (Group Return) funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Boys and Girls Club of North Central Florida Inc — 31% of income from government
- Waltham Boys & Girls Club Inc — 29% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Club of Greater Lowell Inc — 27% of income from government
- The Boys and Girls Clubs of Hartford — 20% of income from government
- The Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro South Inc — 13% of income from government
- Boys and Girls Club of Stoneham Inc — 10% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Dorchester Inc — 7% of income from government
- The Boys and Girls Club of Assabet Valley Inc — 5% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Club of Greater Salem Inc — 4% of income from government
- Watertown Boys and Girls' Club Inc — 3% of income from government
- West End House Inc — 2% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Club of Greater New Bedford Inc — 2% of income from government
- Boys and Girls Clubs of Metrowest Inc — 2% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Club of Martin County — 2% of income from government
- Boys and Girls Club of Worcester Inc — 2% of income from government
- Springfield Boys & Girls Club Inc — 1% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Club of Lynn Inc — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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