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Imagine for Youth Foundation

Our mission is to help children achieve a healthy, active, and educated life.

$406k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

Philanthropy$235kHealth$160kHuman Services$80kYouth Development$70kInternational$45kRecreation & Sports$10k
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 9 grants below total $295,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $406,485 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $111,485 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 · FY2025

  • $10k–50k8 grants · $245k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$35,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UI STEAD FAMILY CHILDRENS HOS$50,000
KEON COLEMAN FAMILY FOUNDATIO$35,000
CHASING MS FOUNDATION$35,000
DIONS DREAMERS FOUNDATION$35,000
RAY DAVIS BTO CHARITABLE FND$35,000
ROUSSEAU FAMILY FOUNDATION$35,000
FIRST OF MANY CHARITABLE$35,000
CHILDRENS HOSPITAL OF BUFFALO$25,000
A CHAMPIONS SHOES$10,000
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 (FY24–25, $90k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%DIONS DREAMERS FOUNDATION: $35k → 14%ROUSSEAU FAMILY FOUNDATION: $35k → 13%DIONS DREAMERS FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%ROUSSEAU FAMILY FOUNDATION: $10k → 13%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

NY
OR
NV
IA
OH
PA
CA
CO
SC
LA
FL
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.

61%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$285k · 4 repeat orgs$180k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +2% since the first grant, against -19% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
3

Total granted

$285k
$50k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+2%
-19%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $130k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
Youth DevelopmentPhilanthropyHuman ServicesHealthCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • TC
    THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF BUFFALO FOUNDATION
    4× · 2022–2025 · $150k · revenue +98%
  • EC
    EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION
    2× · 2024–2025 · $45k · revenue +2%
  • CM
    Chasing Ms Foundation Inc
    2× · 2024–2025 · $45k · revenue 0%

Funded once

  • DF
    DREAMCATCHER FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue +3%
  • KU
    KING URBAN LIFE CENTER INC
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue -19%
  • JP
    JORDAN POYER FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue -100% · 65% 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.

1
Keybank Foundation
—
2
Coleman Family Foundation
—
3
Cole Family Foundation
Philanthropy
4
The Ronald Davis Family Foundation
—
5
Kou Family Foundation Dba Cure for Pc Foundation
—
6
Kobe Foundation Inc
Animals
7
The Charles Foundation
Philanthropy
8
The Charles Foundation
Philanthropy
9
K J Choi Foundation
—
10
The Chase and Stephanie Coleman Foundation
Philanthropy
11
Kings Foundation
—
12
Cb Foundation Inc
Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Edward Charles Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Keon Coleman Family 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

12 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. 12 of the 13 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
5/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER BUFFALO INC: $100,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER BUFFAL…Chasing Ms Foundation Inc: $45,000 · PhilanthropyChasing Ms Foundation IncAMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION: $35,000 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATIONDREAMCATCHER FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · PhilanthropyDREAMCATCHER FOUNDATION INCA Champions Shoes: $10,000 · PhilanthropyTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF BUFFALO FOUNDATION: $150,000 · HealthTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF B…EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION: $45,000 · Human ServicesEDWARD CHARLES FO…ROUSSEAU FAMILY FOUNDATION INC: $45,000 · Human ServicesROUSSEAU FAMILY F…RAY DAVIS BTO CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 · Youth DevelopmentRAY DAVIS BTO C…KEON COLEMAN FAMILY FOUNDATION: $35,000 · Youth DevelopmentKEON COLEMAN FA…JORDAN POYER FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentJORDAN POYER FO…UI STEAD FAMILY CHILDRENS HOS: $50,000 · OtherUI STEAD …KING URBAN LIFE CENTER INC: $20,000 · Community Improvement
Philanthropy$210,000Health$150,000Human Services$90,000Youth Development$80,000Other$50,000Community Improvement$20,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF BUFFALO FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER BUFFALO INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION: $45,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetChasing Ms Foundation Inc: $45,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetROUSSEAU FAMILY FOUNDATION INC: $45,000 over 2y, 45% of budgetRAY DAVIS BTO CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 over 1y, 75% of budgetDREAMCATCHER FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetKING URBAN LIFE CENTER INC: $20,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetJORDAN POYER FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 65% 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Imagine for Youth Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Imagine for Youth Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 13 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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