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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.

$7.6M
Granted FY2025still arriving
89
Grants FY2025still arriving
47
States reached
$647k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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 2025.

Education$51MYouth Development$17MScience & Tech$1.2MArts & Culture$1.0MFood & Nutrition$923kHealth$402kHousing & Shelter$84kCrime & Legal$69kOther$0
02FY2025 · 89 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $60k
  • $10k–50k39 grants · $999k
  • $50k–250k39 grants · $5.0M
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.3M
$45,661
Median grant
47
States reached
$141M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Mississippi State University Foundation: $17k → 24%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

AK
ME
VT
NH
WA
ID
MT
ND
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
WY
SD
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
NE
MO
KY
WV
VA
MD
DE
AZ
NM
KS
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
HI
OK
LA
MS
AL
GA
TX
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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$70M · 109 repeat orgs$1.4M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +45% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

109
29

Total granted

$70M
$813k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
0%

Still filing today

50%
41%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $586k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationYouth DevelopmentHealthPhilanthropyHuman ServicesOther
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

  • T4
    TENNESSEE 4-H FOUNDATION INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $3.5M · revenue +84% · 30% of their budget
  • Cornell University
    8× · 2017–2025 · $2.1M · revenue +59%
  • T4
    TEXAS 4-H YOUTH DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION I
    7× · 2017–2025 · $2.1M · revenue +87% · 54% of their budget

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA
    one grant, 2023 · $155k
  • CO
    CURATORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI SPECIAL TR
    one grant, 2023 · $127k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FAYETTEVILLE
    one grant, 2024 · $72k
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
Iowa 4-H Foundation

The iowa 4-h foundation provides financial resources for youth development through 4-h.

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2
The University Foundation

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.

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3
Missouri Western State University Foundation Inc

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…

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4
Wyoming State 4-H Foundation

Promote 4-h activities on the state & local level.

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5
The Northern Michigan University Foundation

The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.

Education
6
Northern State University 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.

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7
Indiana University Foundation

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…

Education
8
University of Florida Leadership and Education Foundation Inc

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…

Public Benefit
9
The Penn State Research Foundation

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…

Education
10
Wsu Tech Foundation

To support, assist and promote the interest and welfare of wsu tech and its programs and activities.

Education
11
Iowa State University Foundation

Aligning donor passion and generosity to advance iowa state university's land grant ideals.

Education
12
Valley City State University Foundation

Valley City State University Foundation aids in the advancement of Valley City State University by awarding scholarships and by promoting the University. Support comes primarily from contributions by individuals and businesses, fundraising…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Montana 4-H Foundation Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

77 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. 77 of the 151 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.

12
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
73/77
Grantees still filing
57/77
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TENNESSEE 4-H FOUNDATION INC: $3,477,919 · OtherTENNESSEE 4-H FOUNDATION INCPENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $2,469,760 · OtherPENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITYOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY: $2,167,728 · OtherUTAH STATE UNIVERSITY: $1,850,556 · OtherBOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA: $1,812,584 · OtherCLEMSON UNIVERSITY: $1,552,658 · OtherVIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE & STATE UNIVERSITY: $1,462,269 · Other+91 more: $28,232,332 · Other+91 moreTEXAS 4-H YOUTH DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION I: $2,123,026 · Youth DevelopmentTEXAS 4-H YOUTH DEVELO…GEORGIA 4-H CLUB FOUNDATION INC: $2,087,931 · Youth DevelopmentGEORGIA 4-H CLUB FOUND…FLORIDA 4-H CLUB FOUNDATION INC: $1,687,090 · Youth DevelopmentFLORIDA 4-H CLUB FOUND…THE MARYLAND 4-H FOUNDATION INC: $1,369,666 · Youth DevelopmentTHE MARYLAND 4-H FOUND…MICHIGAN 4-H FOUNDATION: $1,240,705 · Youth DevelopmentMICHIGAN 4-H FOUNDATIO…OKLAHOMA 4-H FOUNDATION INC: $1,179,152 · Youth DevelopmentOKLAHOMA 4-H FOUNDATIO…ARKANSAS 4-H FOUNDATION INC: $1,172,083 · Youth DevelopmentARKANSAS 4-H FOUNDATIO…THE CALIFORNIA 4-H FOUNDATION: $954,008 · Youth DevelopmentTHE CALIFORNIA 4-H FOU…KENTUCKY 4H FOUNDATION INC: $833,679 · Youth DevelopmentKENTUCKY 4H FOUNDATION…+10 more: $1,411,019 · Youth Development+10 moreCornell University: $2,127,949 · EducationCornell UniversityWASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $1,862,078 · EducationWASHINGTON STATE UNI…University of Illinois Foundation: $1,579,090 · EducationUniversity of Illino…North Dakota State University Foundation: $1,185,794 · EducationNorth Dakota State U…WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $1,096,039 · EducationWEST VIRGINIA UNIVER…RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $750,686 · EducationRUTGERS UNIVERSITY F…UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FOUNDATION: $626,101 · EducationWEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION: $619,562 · EducationCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $502,480 · EducationVIRGINIA TECH FOUNDATION INC: $440,263 · Education+20 more: $2,053,978 · Education+20 moreTHE NORTH CAROLINA AGRICULTURAL FOUNDATION INC: $1,433,952 · HealthTHE NEW MEXICO 4-H YOUTH DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION: $33,000 · PhilanthropyHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $7,264 · PhilanthropyMississippi State University Foundation Inc: $16,500 · Human Services
Other$43,025,806Youth Development$14,058,359Education$12,844,020Health$1,433,952Philanthropy$40,264Human Services$16,500

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 budgetTENNESSEE 4-H FOUNDATION INC: $3,477,919 over 8y, 30% of budgetCornell University: $2,127,949 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTEXAS 4-H YOUTH DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION I: $2,123,026 over 7y, 54% of budgetGEORGIA 4-H CLUB FOUNDATION INC: $2,087,931 over 8y, 11% of budgetWASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $1,862,078 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetFLORIDA 4-H CLUB FOUNDATION INC: $1,687,090 over 8y, 32% of budgetUniversity of Illinois Foundation: $1,579,090 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NORTH CAROLINA AGRICULTURAL FOUNDATION INC: $1,433,952 over 7y, 2.7% of budgetTHE MARYLAND 4-H FOUNDATION INC: $1,369,666 over 8y, 33% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $1,269,457 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMICHIGAN 4-H FOUNDATION: $1,240,705 over 8y, 58% of budgetNorth Dakota State University Foundation: $1,185,794 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetOKLAHOMA 4-H FOUNDATION INC: $1,179,152 over 7y, 21% of budgetARKANSAS 4-H FOUNDATION INC: $1,172,083 over 6y, 19% of budgetWEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $1,096,039 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetWEST VIRGINIA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $1,093,188 over 7y, 3.4% of budgetNEW YORK STATE 4-H FOUNDATION INC: $961,401 over 4y, 98% of budgetTHE CALIFORNIA 4-H FOUNDATION: $954,008 over 8y, 16% of budgetKENTUCKY 4H FOUNDATION INC: $833,679 over 7y, 6.8% of budgetRUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $750,686 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetFORT VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDA INC: $634,912 over 7y, 25% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FOUNDATION: $626,101 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetWEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION: $619,562 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $502,480 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ALABAMA 4-H CLUB FOUNDATION: $487,168 over 8y, 4.1% of budgetVIRGINIA TECH FOUNDATION INC: $440,263 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLOUISIANA 4-H FOUNDATION INC: $392,568 over 7y, 17% of budgetSOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $369,088 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetNORTHERN VIRGINIA 4-H EDUCATIONAL CENTER: $343,171 over 2y, 21% of budgetINDIANA 4-H FOUNDATION INC: $326,740 over 6y, 11% of budgetKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $290,331 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetOregon 4-H Foundation: $287,283 over 8y, 16% of budgetTuskegee University: $247,799 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMontana State University Foundation Inc: $211,551 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetMISSOURI 4-H FOUNDATION: $207,786 over 7y, 5.3% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS 4-H FOUNDATION INC: $204,849 over 8y, 7.6% of budgetOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $203,656 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetVIRGINIA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $169,057 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetKansas 4-H Foundation Inc: $165,505 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetNEBRASKA 4-H FOUNDATION: $164,752 over 8y, 4.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS: $158,800 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWISCONSIN 4-H FOUNDATION INC: $149,727 over 7y, 3.9% of budgetALABAMA A&M UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $136,375 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetSOMERSET COUNTY 4-H ASSOCIATION: $119,918 over 5y, 11% of budgetNew Mexico State Univ Fdn Inc: $118,425 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCOLORADO 4-H FOUNDATION: $104,891 over 4y, 10% of budgetILLINOIS 4-H HOUSE ASSOCIATION: $84,451 over 3y, 55% of budgetPINE TREE STATE 4-H FOUNDATION: $82,950 over 4y, 1.9% 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.

  • 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 ↗

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.

American Chemical Soc…NRA Foundation IncNational Collegiate A…Thurgood Marshall Col…1890 Universities Fou…Tulsa Community Found…Strada Education Foun…Tuskegee UniversityFolds of Honor Founda…Extension FoundationHispanic Scholarship …Cornell University
American Chemical SocietyDC35.3× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 National 4-H Council funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from National 4-H Council. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 18%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
9report 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.

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 151 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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home