· Public charity
National Guard Youth Foundation
The foundation raises national awareness about the high school completion crisis and impact on our nation's youth, economy and national security.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 17 grants below total $133,050 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $142,335 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $9,285 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 · FY2026
- Under $10k16 grants · $118k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KENTUCKY YOUTH CHALLENGE FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| CENTRAL OREGON YOUTH INVESTMENT FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
| NEVADA YOUTH CHALLENGE FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
| IDAHO YOUTH CHALLENGE FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
| FLORIDA YOUTH CHALLENGE ACADEMY FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
| HAWAII YOUTH CHALLENGE FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
| MONTANA YOUTH CHALLENGE FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
| HOOSIER YOUTH CHALLENGE FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
| DISCOVERY CHALLENGE NONPROFIT INC | $7,500 |
| MS NATIONAL GUARD CHALLENGE FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
| SYA FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
| THUNDERBIRD YOUTH CHALLENGE PROGRAM | $7,500 |
| DC NATIONAL GUARD YOUTH CHALLENGE FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
| NEW MEXICO YOUTH CHALLENGE FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
| GRIZZLY YOUTH ACADEMY FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY26–26) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 76% of your 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.
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.
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 foundation is organized and operated for the purpose of assisting the state of georgia's youth who drop out of secondary school are are engaged in the national guard youth challenge program. this is done through public education and…
The washington youth academy foundation supports the students and programs of the washington youth academy by direct financial support and volunteer service and providing continuing education financial assistance. the washington youth…
Charitable youth activities.
Support youth
The National Guard Association of Indiana Foundation provides scholarships for active, retired and former members of the Indiana National Guard and their family members.
Program service accomplishments provide scholarships and patriotic flyovers
The Cadet Foundation operates and publishes The Cadet newspaper as the independent voice of the VMI Corps of Cadets and Alumni since its creation in 1871, its transition to a newspaper format in 1907, and today. Our mission is to support…
To provide scholarships to members of the south carolina national guard or dependents of national guard members and to provide emergency financial support to national guard members for needs resulting from mobilization for active duty.
To provide Commonwealth Challenge Youth Academy Cadets Scholarships and other means of Direct Support for Cadets entered into the Commonwealth Challenge Youth Academy.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Mexico Youth Challenge Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Candid. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 17 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.
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- Who funds MS NATIONAL GUARD CHALLENGE FOUNDAT ↗
- Who funds HOOSIER YOUTH CHALLENGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEW MEXICO YOUTH CHALLENGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CANDID ↗
- Who funds SYA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MONTANA YOUTH YOUTH CHALLENGE FOUNDATION ↗
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