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National Center for Youth Law

For over 50 years, the National Center for Youth Law has put children and youth at the heart of the fight for justice.

$1.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
19
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$180k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Crime & Legal$2.9MHealth$1.5MYouth Development$1.0MEducation$912kCommunity Improvement$175kPublic Benefit$121kCivil Rights$80kHuman Services$66kOther$0
02FY2024 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $6k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $147k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $1.0M
$20,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$23M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Children's Law Center of California$179,667
John Burton Foundation$175,000
Amelia Ann Adams Whole Life Center$150,000
KIDS IN KONFLICT INC$150,000
Neighborhood College Youth Opportunity Program$100,000
Be Smooth Inc$100,000
Children's Home of Stockton$100,000
University Auxiliary Services Inc$57,436
WestCoast Children's Clinic$20,000
Community Initiatives$20,000
Knowledge Shop LA$15,000
California Youth Connection$15,000
Public Counsel$15,000
Advocating 4 Kids Inc$15,000
Alliance for Children's Rights$15,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $247k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 82% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Silicon Valley De-bug: $10k → 8%Amelia Ann Adams Whole Life Center: $150k → 12%Ubuntu Village: $16k → 23%Silicon Valley De-Bug: $7k → 8%Community Agency for Resources Advocacy & Services: $10k → 8%Child and Family Policy Institute: $31k → 12%Community Agency for Resources Advocacy & Services: $10k → 8%Community Agency for Resources Advocacy & Services: $7k → 8%Center for Young Women's Development: $7k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

WA
MI
OH
CA
CO
VA
KS
LA
TX

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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 25% of National Center for Youth Law’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 83% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 89% — more of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

National Center for Youth Lawlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$5.6M · 22 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +53% since the first grant, against +32% for the ones you funded once.

22 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
19

Total granted

$5.6M
$557k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+53%
+32%

Still filing today

91%
68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $652k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationHealthYouth DevelopmentCrime & LegalCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • CHILDREN'S LAW CENTER OF CALIFORNIA
    8× · 2017–2024 · $868k · revenue +167%
  • Planned Parenthood Pasadena and San Gabriel Valley Inc
    5× · 2020–2024 · $793k · revenue +80%
  • NN
    National Network of State Teachers of the Year
    2× · 2022–2023 · $490k · revenue +1% · 25% of their budget

Funded once

  • CATALYST CALIFORNIA
    one grant, 2017 · $121k · revenue -5%
  • RO
    REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
    one grant, 2018 · $83k
  • SA
    SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC
    one grant, 2023 · $33k · revenue +8%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
California School-Age Consortium Inc

The California School-Age Consortium (CalSAC) builds professional networks that provide training, leadership development and advocacy to ensure that all young people have access to high quality out-of-school time programs and to create a…

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2
Allies for Every Child Inc

All children need a childhood. Allies for Every Child brings together and strengthens families, cultivating conditions for children to succeed in life. (Continues on Schedule O)

Human Services
3
Youth Power Project

Breaking down barriers between lawmakers & youth by centering voices & stories of young people in policymaking at local, state, & federal levels. We are working on a nationwide campaign to uplift survivors of child sexual abuse and provide…

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4
Legal Link

Legal Link removes legal barriers that prolong poverty by adding critically needed capacity to the legal ecosystem.

Crime & Legal
5
Kids in Common

Kids in Common advocates for education, healthcare, social-emotional well being, and justice for all children in Santa Clara County by supporting policies, promoting data-driven action, and fostering collaborations of cross-systems leaders…

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6
Partnership for Children & Youth

By strategically linking people, practice and policy, we make sure that children and youth in the most under-resourced communities receive quality expanded learning opportunities and that all their learning environments school, afterschool…

Community Improvement
7
California Alliance of Caregivers

California Alliance of Caregivers represents the voices of relative and non-relative caregivers to promote the well-being of children in foster care. California Alliance of Caregivers provides training information support and advocacy for…

Health
8
California Coalition for Youth

To improve and empower the lives of California's youth through advocacy and community outreach.

Human Services
9
The California Center for Civic Participation

To educate california youth about the operations of local, state, and federal government.

Public Benefit
10
California Pan-Ethnic Health Network

To promote health equity by advocating for public policies and sufficient resources to address the health needs of communities of color.

Health
11
California Partnership to End Domestic Violence

The organization's mission is to promote the collective voice of a diverse coalition of organizations and individuals working to eliminate all forms of domestic violence. as an advocate for sociate change, we advance our mission by…

Civil Rights
12
California Youth Defender Center Inc

Defend youth rights by building and training a statewide defense coalition that challenges injustices, drives policy change, and champions community.

Crime & Legal

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Women's Freedom Center and the most unlike its peers is Knowledge Shop. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity Health CentersPublic Safety Labor Organiz…Regional Chambers of Commer…Family Philanthropic Founda…Senior Affordable HousingContemporary Arts Organizat…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number25%0%<5yr16%18%5–10yr20%20%10–20yr17%28%20–35yr11%20%35–55yr12%15%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value25%0%<5yr16%14%5–10yr20%18%10–20yr17%33%20–35yr11%12%35–55yr12%23%55yr+

The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/50
the rest of the field
14%
16,209/114,380

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.

05the grantee network

42 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. 42 of the 50 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
41/42
Grantees still filing
30/42
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CHILDREN'S LAW CENTER OF CALIFORNIA — $868,167 · OtherCHILDREN'S LAW CENTER OF CALIFORNIAALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN'S RIGHTS — $322,500 · OtherALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN'S RIGHTSContra Costa County Office of Education — $240,000 · OtherContra Costa County Office of EducationKIDS IN KONFLICT INC — $150,000 · OtherKIDS IN KONFLICT INCFOSTERING UNITY — $107,801 · OtherChildren's Home of Stockton Inc — $100,000 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN — $82,660 · OtherColorado Circles for Change - Denver — $80,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY INITIATIVES — $80,000 · Other+14 more — $319,271 · Other+14 morePlanned Parenthood Pasadena and San Gabriel Valley Inc — $792,529 · HealthPlanned Parenthood Pasa…SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL — $379,500 · HealthSEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSP…OLIVE VIEW-UCLA EDUCATION AND RESEARCH INSTITUE INC — $112,630 · HealthOLIVE VIEW-UCLA EDUCATI…WESTCOAST CHILDREN'S CLINIC — $106,669 · HealthWESTCOAST CHILDREN'S CL…+1 more — $11,000 · HealthNational Network of State Teachers of the Year — $490,000 · EducationNational Network of…Health Connected — $488,297 · EducationHealth ConnectedCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY LOS ANGELES AUXILIARY SERVICES INC — $133,675 · EducationCALIFORNIA STATE UN…+3 more — $55,000 · EducationJohn Burton Advocates for Youth — $927,500 · Youth DevelopmentJohn Burton Advoc…Be Smooth Inc — $100,000 · Youth DevelopmentBe Smooth Inc+2 more — $30,700 · Youth DevelopmentPUBLIC COUNSEL — $297,500 · Crime & LegalPUBLIC LAW CENTER — $30,000 · Crime & LegalFresno Barrios Unidos — $20,000 · Crime & Legal+1 more — $10,850 · Crime & LegalAMELIA ANN ADAMS WHOLE LIFE CENTER — $150,000 · Human ServicesHOPE OPPORTUNITY PURPOSE EMPOWERMENT CULTURE INC — $100,000 · Human ServicesChild and Family Policy Institute of California — $30,800 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY AGENCY FOR RESOURCES ADVOCACY & SERVICES — $26,667 · Human ServicesSilicon Valley De-Bug — $16,667 · Human ServicesUBUNTU VILLAGE NOLA — $15,700 · Human Services+1 more — $7,009 · Human ServicesCATALYST CALIFORNIA — $121,393 · Public Benefit
Other$2,350,399Health$1,402,328Education$1,166,972Youth Development$1,058,200Crime & Legal$358,350Human Services$346,843Public Benefit$121,393

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetJohn Burton Advocates for Youth — $927,500 over 8y, 5.8% of budgetCHILDREN'S LAW CENTER OF CALIFORNIA — $868,167 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetPlanned Parenthood Pasadena and San Gabriel Valley Inc — $792,529 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetNational Network of State Teachers of the Year — $490,000 over 2y, 25% of budgetHealth Connected — $488,297 over 4y, 12% of budgetSEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL — $379,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN'S RIGHTS — $322,500 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetPUBLIC COUNSEL — $297,500 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetKIDS IN KONFLICT INC — $150,000 over 1y, 42% of budgetAMELIA ANN ADAMS WHOLE LIFE CENTER — $150,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY LOS ANGELES AUXILIARY SERVICES INC — $133,675 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCATALYST CALIFORNIA — $121,393 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetOLIVE VIEW-UCLA EDUCATION AND RESEARCH INSTITUE INC — $112,630 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetFOSTERING UNITY — $107,801 over 3y, 19% of budgetWESTCOAST CHILDREN'S CLINIC — $106,669 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetHOPE OPPORTUNITY PURPOSE EMPOWERMENT CULTURE INC — $100,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetBe Smooth Inc — $100,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetChildren's Home of Stockton Inc — $100,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY INITIATIVES — $80,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC — $33,441 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDESTINATION INNOVATION INC — $31,400 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetChild and Family Policy Institute of California — $30,800 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCHARITABLE VENTURES OF ORANGE COUNTY — $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE — $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPUBLIC LAW CENTER — $30,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY AGENCY FOR RESOURCES ADVOCACY & SERVICES — $26,667 over 3y, 4.7% of budgetCalifornia Youth Connection — $26,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetPOLICYLINK — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFresno Barrios Unidos — $20,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetMILPA — $20,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSilicon Valley De-Bug — $16,667 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetYOUTH JUSTICE COALITION INC — $15,700 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetUBUNTU VILLAGE NOLA — $15,700 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetINTERCULTURAL DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH ASSOCIATION — $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetADVOCATING 4 KIDS INC — $15,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGENTE ORGANIZADA — $15,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCALIFORNIA LATINAS FOR REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE — $11,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetYOUTH LAW CENTER — $10,850 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEducational Results Partnership — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG WOMEN'S FREEDOM CENTER — $7,009 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

The California Endowm…The California Wellne…Liberty Hill Foundati…Kaiser Foundation Hos…Sierra Health Foundat…Tides CenterConrad N Hilton Found…The Heising-Simons Fo…Weingart FoundationThe James Irvine Foun…Californians For Just…Tides Foundation
The California EndowmentCA32.4× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The California Endowment · The California Wellness Foundation · Liberty Hill Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Sierra Health Foundation Center for Health Program Management · Tides Center · Conrad N Hilton Foundation · The Heising-Simons Foundation · Weingart Foundation · The James Irvine Foundation · Californians For Justice Education Fund · Tides 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 National Center for Youth Law 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    21report 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

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 50 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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