· Public charity
National 4-H Council
National 4-H Councils mission is to expand opportunities for all of Americas youth through increased investment and participation in 4-H positive youth development.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $60k
- $10k–50k39 grants · $999k
- $50k–250k39 grants · $5.0M
- $250k+3 grants · $1.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Board of Regents of University of Nebraska For University of Nebraska-Linco | $647,151 |
| Pennsylvania State University | $419,321 |
| Texas 4H Youth Foundation | $274,691 |
| Tennessee 4H Club Foundation | $241,033 |
| Utah State University | $239,534 |
| Cornell University | $236,240 |
| Georgia 4H Foundation | $210,632 |
| Michigan 4H Foundation | $194,115 |
| Clemson University | $193,595 |
| Regents of The University of Minnesota | $187,208 |
| North Carolina State University | $182,016 |
| The Ohio State University Foundation | $181,801 |
| Rutgers The State University of New Jersey | $176,817 |
| IOWA 4-H FOUNDATION | $174,505 |
| The Trustees of Purdue University | $173,359 |
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 (FY25–25, $17k) land where the poverty rate runs at 24%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 +42% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
109 repeat relationships — 72 still active in FY2025, 37 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $586k 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
- T4TENNESSEE 4-H FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2025 · $3.5M · revenue +84% · 30% of their budget
Cornell University8× · 2017–2025 · $2.1M · revenue +59%- T4TEXAS 4-H YOUTH DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION I7× · 2017–2025 · $2.1M · revenue +87% · 54% of their budget
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF ALASKAone grant, 2023 · $155k
- COCURATORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI SPECIAL TRone grant, 2023 · $127k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FAYETTEVILLEone grant, 2024 · $72k
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.
The iowa 4-h foundation provides financial resources for youth development through 4-h.
Promote 4-h activities on the state & local level.
The foundation is organized and shall be operated exclusively to receive, hold, invest, and administer property and to make expenditures to or for the benefit of the university of florida. more specifically, the foundation is organized to…
The university foundation is organized to assist and aid the board of trustees of the university of alabama in fulfilling its educational, research, and public service programs and activities.
The missouri western state university foundation is a not-for-profit charitable organization that functions solely to support the mission of missouri western state university, as stated in the university's mission statement. the foundation…
The Northern State University Foundation is dedicated to securing the future of Northern State University. Its purpose is to solicit and administer funds and to pursue other activities to advance this goal.
The Indiana University Foundation (IUF) maximizes private philanthropic support for Indiana University by fostering lifelong relationships with key stakeholders and providing advancement leadership and fundraising services for (Continued…
Aligning donor passion and generosity to advance iowa state university's land grant ideals.
To support, assist and promote the interest and welfare of wsu tech and its programs and activities.
The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.
The Penn State Research Foundations mission is to foster and advance scientific research which includes creating, purchasing, holding and licensing of rights for inventions, designs and intellectual property of The Pennsylvania State…
Raise private resources to advance the mission and priorities of the university and serve as ambassadors in the community. provide stewardship in the prudent investment of resources and ensure the integrity of the foundation through…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Montana 4-H Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Outagamie County 4-H Leaders Association Inc. 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 55 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% 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.
77 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. 77 of the 151 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
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 TENNESSEE 4-H FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds TEXAS 4-H YOUTH DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION I ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA 4-H CLUB FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA 4-H CLUB FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds University of Illinois Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE NORTH CAROLINA AGRICULTURAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE MARYLAND 4-H FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN 4-H FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds North Dakota State University Foundation ↗
- Who funds OKLAHOMA 4-H FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ARKANSAS 4-H FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WEST VIRGINIA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK STATE 4-H FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE CALIFORNIA 4-H FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY 4H FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
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: American Chemical Society · NRA Foundation Inc · National Collegiate Athletic Association · Thurgood Marshall College Fund · 1890 Universities Foundation · Tulsa Community Foundation · Strada Education Foundation Inc · Tuskegee University · Folds of Honor Foundation · Extension Foundation · Hispanic Scholarship Fund · Cornell University
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 National 4-H Council 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- University of Delaware — 30% of income from government
- Delaware State University — 18% of income from government
- Florida 4-H Club Foundation Inc — 1% of income from government
- Rutgers University Foundation — 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.