· Public charity
Youth Collaboratory Inc
Youth Collaboratory harnesses the power of the youth services community to innovate, evaluate, and drive effective strategies that assure the safety and well-being of youth and young adults, unlocking their limitless potential.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $10k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $135k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $187k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Chapin Hall Center for Children at the University of Chicago | $130,739 |
| Lexington Leadership | $56,574 |
| Connections Mentor | $29,407 |
| BBBS of Flint and Genesee | $24,000 |
| LIFT Community Action Agency | $23,291 |
| Bolder Options | $22,220 |
| BBBS of Southeast Michigan | $21,350 |
| BBBS of Connecticut | $14,862 |
| Street Soccer USA Bay Area | $9,860 |
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 (FY17–24, $2.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 96% 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.
65 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 59 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $61k 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
- CHCHAPIN HALL CENTER FOR CHILDREN4× · 2021–2024 · $866k · revenue +14%
- BBBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA INCORPORATED6× · 2017–2022 · $440k · revenue +68%
- BBBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NORTHEAST INDIANA INC6× · 2017–2023 · $406k · revenue +106%
Funded once
- BBBIG BROTHERSBIG SISTERS OF MIDDLE TNgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $54k · revenue +73%
- BBBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL INDIANA INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +33%
- NGNEBRASKA GAME AND PARKS COMMISSIONone grant, 2017 · $50k
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.
To provide children facing adversity with strong, enduring, professionally supported one on one relationships that change their lives for the better, forever.
To help children reach their potential through professionally supported, one-to-one relationships with measurable impact. this is achieved by matching children with adults in mentoring relationships, providing children with companionship…
Create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite and empower the promise of youth. we nurture children, strengthen communities and believe that inherent in every child is the ability to succeed and thrive in life.
Create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth.
To create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth.
To provide children facing adversity with strong and enduring, professionally supported 1-to-1 relationships that change their lives for the better, forever. provides mentoring opportunities to more than 110 youth each year.
To organize, under professional direction, mature and responsible adults to provide, on a volunteer basis, a one to one friendship (mentor) to boys and girls who are deprived of a wholesome relationship with a parent or other surrogate…
Create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth.
The mission of big brothers big sisters is to create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth.
To create and support one to one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth.
Create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth.
The organization provides quality volunteer and professional contract mentoring services in the black hills area, on a one to one basis for youth with limited parental support to assist them in achieving
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Triangle Inc and the most unlike its peers is Landmarks for Families Inc. 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.
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 48 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 — 3% 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.
67 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. 67 of the 72 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 CHAPIN HALL CENTER FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NORTHEAST INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER WYOMING BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE TRIANGLE INC ↗
- Who funds LIFT COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BUDDY PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds LEXINGTON LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS LONE STAR ↗
- Who funds Bolder Options ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF ESSEX HUDSON AND UNION COUNTIES NEW JERSEY INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF WEST VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds Civic Heart Community Services ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF EAST TENNESSEE INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF EASTERN MISSOURI ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE MIDLANDS ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL NEW MEXICO INC ↗
- Who funds Landmarks for Families Inc ↗
- Who funds INTERACTION INC ↗
- Who funds TAMPA BAY ACADEMY OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Mid-South Inc ↗
- Who funds CENTRE COUNTY YOUTH SERVICE BUREAU ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE GREATER TWIN CITIES ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF MISSISSIPPI ↗
- Who funds AMACHI PITTSBURGH INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS & SISTERS OF MISSOULA INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF EL PASO INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF FLINT AND GENESEE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES LGBT CENTER ↗
- Who funds COMPEER ROCHESTER INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH AND SHELTER SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Lowcountry ↗
- Who funds YOUTH EMERGENCY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS HAWAII INC ↗
- Who funds JACKSON STREET YOUTH SHELTER INC ↗
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: Big Brothers Big Sisters Of America · Inspire Brands Foundation Inc · Tickets for Kids Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Gap Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Charles Schwab Foundation · Union Pacific Foundation · American Express Foundation · Dick's Sporting Goods Foundation · Dutch Bros 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 Youth Collaboratory Inc 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.
- Luk Crisis Center Inc — 95% of income from government
- Elevate Youth Services Inc — 88% of income from government
- Interaction Inc — 70% of income from government
- Jackson Street Youth Shelter Inc — 59% of income from government
- Lift Community Action Agency Inc — 43% of income from government
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of Connecticut Inc — 15% 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.