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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.

$142k
Granted FY2026still arriving
17
Grants FY2026still arriving
14
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01FY2026 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 17 grants below total $133,050, the rows itemized in this filing. The $142,335 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $9,285 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 · FY2026

  • Under $10k16 grants · $118k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
$7,500
Median grant
14
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
02

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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY26–26) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 76% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%NEVADA YOUTH CHALLENGE FOUNDATION: $8k → 11%SYA FOUNDATION: $8k → 10%GRIZZLY YOUTH ACADEMY FOUNDATION: $8k → 12%DISCOVERY CHALLENGE NONPROFIT INC: $8k → 12%YOUTH EMPOWERMENT STUDIOS FOUNDATION INC: $6k → 14%HAWAII YOUTH CHALLENGE FOUNDATION: $8k → 9%KENTUCKY YOUTH CHALLENGE FOUNDATION: $15k → 13%FLORIDA YOUTH CHALLENGE ACADEMY FOUNDATION: $8k → 16%IDAHO YOUTH CHALLENGE FOUNDATION: $8k → 15%MONTANA YOUTH CHALLENGE FOUNDATION: $8k → 12%PENNSYLVANIA NATIONAL GUARD FOUNDATION: $8k → 11%HOOSIER YOUTH CHALLENGE FOUNDATION: $8k → 14%NEW MEXICO YOUTH CHALLENGE FOUNDATION: $8k → 20%THUNDERBIRD YOUTH CHALLENGE PROGRAM: $8k → 18%CENTRAL OREGON YOUTH INVESTMENT FOUNDATION: $8k → 10%DC NATIONAL GUARD YOUTH CHALLENGE FOUNDATION: $8k → 6%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.
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 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
Youth Challenge Academy Foundation Inc

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…

Philanthropy
2
Washington Youth Academy Foundation

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…

Education
3
De National Guard Youth Foundation

Charitable youth activities.

Youth Development
4
The California Boys & Girls State Foundation
Philanthropy
5
California Highway Patrol

Support youth

Youth Development
6
National Guard Association of Indiana Foundation

The National Guard Association of Indiana Foundation provides scholarships for active, retired and former members of the Indiana National Guard and their family members.

Human Services
7
Grand Aces Foundation

Program service accomplishments provide scholarships and patriotic flyovers

Education
8
Cadet Foundation

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…

Youth Development
9
South Carolina Military Scholarship & Family Care Association Inc

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.

Education
10
Captain Timothy J Moshier Memorial
Philanthropy
11
Commonwealth Challenge Parent Association

To provide Commonwealth Challenge Youth Academy Cadets Scholarships and other means of Direct Support for Cadets entered into the Commonwealth Challenge Youth Academy.

Youth Development
12
The Challenge Foundation
Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Mexico Youth Challenge Foundation; 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.
03the grantee network

10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/10
Grantees still filing
5/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

KENTUCKY YOUTH CHALLENGE FOUNDATION: $15,000 · OtherKENTUCKY YOUTH CHALLENGE FOUNDATIONPENNSYLVANIA NATIONAL GUARD FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 · OtherPENNSYLVANIA NATIONAL GUARD FOUNDATION INCCENTRAL OREGON YOUTH INVESTMENT FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 · OtherCENTRAL OREGON YOUTH INVESTMENT FOUNDATION INCNEVADA YOUTH CHALLENGE FOUNDATION: $7,500 · OtherNEVADA YOUTH CHALLENGE FOUNDATIONFLORIDA YOUTH CHALLENGE ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 · OtherFLORIDA YOUTH CHALLENGE ACADEMY FOUNDATION INCDISTRICT OF COLUMBIA YOUTH CHALLENGE FOUNDATION: $7,500 · OtherDISTRICT OF COLUMBIA YOUTH CHALLENGE FOUNDATIONIDAHO YOUTH CHALLENGE FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 · OtherIDAHO YOUTH CHALLENGE FOUNDATION INCYOUTH EMPOWERMENT STUDIOS FOUNDATION INC: $5,550 · OtherYOUTH EMPOWERMENT STUDIOS FOUNDATION INCHawaii Youth Challenge Foundation: $7,500 · EducationHawaii Youth Challenge Fo…MS NATIONAL GUARD CHALLENGE FOUNDAT: $7,500 · EducationMS NATIONAL GUARD CHALLEN…NEW MEXICO YOUTH CHALLENGE FOUNDATION: $7,500 · EducationNEW MEXICO YOUTH CHALLENG…MONTANA YOUTH YOUTH CHALLENGE FOUNDATION: $7,500 · EducationMONTANA YOUTH YOUTH CHALL…Discovery Challenge Nonprofit Inc: $7,500 · Youth DevelopmentDiscovery Ch…HOOSIER YOUTH CHALLENGE FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 · Youth DevelopmentHOOSIER YOUT…GRIZZLY YOUTH ACADEMY FOUNDATION: $7,500 · PhilanthropyGRIZZLY YOUT…CANDID: $7,500 · PhilanthropyCANDIDSYA FOUNDATION: $7,500 · Community Improvement
Other$65,550Education$30,000Youth Development$15,000Philanthropy$15,000Community Improvement$7,500

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

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their 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.

04Through Plinth

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How do I get to National Guard Youth Foundation?

Find your warmest path to National Guard 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 17 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 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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