· Public charity
Youth Initiative Fund
To develop the skills, understanding, knowledge and spiritual resources necessary for success in the 21st century.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2018.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2018
- Under $10k4 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $215k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $714k
- $250k+3 grants · $1.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE STERLING DONOR ADVISED FUND | $1,068,825 |
| SIDWELL FRIENDS SCHOOL | $400,000 |
| FOLGER SHAKESPEARE THEATER | $300,000 |
| SCHOOLING FOR LIFE | $150,000 |
| THE CHEHALIS FOUNDATION | $113,825 |
| BEST BUDDIES INTERNATIONAL INC | $100,000 |
| STANFORD LAW SCHOOL | $100,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA | $100,000 |
| CHILDREN'S NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER | $50,000 |
| WF WEST HIGH SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| JUNIOR STATESMEN FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| KEHILLAT MAARAV | $35,000 |
| CARROLL CHILD CARE CENTERS INC | $25,000 |
| WING LUKE MUSEUM | $25,000 |
| WESTMINSTER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $25,000 |
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 (FY17–18, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +49% since the first grant, against +34% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (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 FY2018, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $285k 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
- ACAMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEES2× · 2017–2018 · $440k · revenue +141%
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA FOUNDATION2× · 2017–2018 · $200k · revenue +53%
Best Buddies International Inc2× · 2017–2018 · $200k · revenue +81%
Funded once
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +34%- EFEPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF AMERICAone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +1%
- SOSPECIAL OLYMPICS MARYLAND INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +33%
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.
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…
Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The washington university is a co-educational, nondenominational university with a long and distinguished history of teaching, research and (cont'd on schedule o)
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…
The graduate school of the stowers institute for medical research ("gssimr") exempt purpose is to provide graduate education that will prepare scholars for scientific research in the biological sciences.
The mission of southern california university of health sciences (scu) is to educate students as competent, caring and successful practitioners of integrative healthcare. the university is committed to providing excellence in academics,…
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
The nstmf's mission is to build inclusive stem communities across the united states. fundamental to these communities are the significant, inspirational connections we foster between the individuals who have received national recognition…
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Epilepsy Foundation of America and the most unlike its peers is Dc Summer Math Institute 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 46 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 — 0.0% 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.
27 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. 27 of the 36 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 THE STERLING DONOR ADVISED FUND ↗
- Who funds AMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEES ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Best Buddies International Inc ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S NATIONAL ↗
- Who funds THE CHEHALIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR STATE OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds SCHOOLING FOR LIFE ↗
- Who funds NYU LANGONE HOSPITALS ↗
- Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds EPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds WING LUKE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CARROLL CHILD CARE CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION TO ERADICATE DUCHENNE INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON VA RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds Emory University ↗
- Who funds CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE HEALTH & SERVICES FOUNDATION SAN FERNANDO & SANTA CLARITA VALLEYS SA ↗
- Who funds WHEATON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Asian American LEAD ↗
- Who funds University of Scranton ↗
- Who funds Oregon State University Foundation ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds DC SUMMER MATH INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds The Shalem Foundation ↗
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: Millennium Evergreen Charitable Fund · The Sterling Donor Advised Fund · Kids Connect Charitable Fund · May Liang and James Lintott Foundation · Century Vision Benefit Fund · Schooling for Life · American Gift Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment 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 Initiative Fund 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Boston Va Research Institute Inc — 64% of income from government
- Epilepsy Foundation of America — 22% of income from government
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
- Amherst College Trustees — 0% of income from government
- Wheaton College — 0% of income from government
- Oregon State University Foundation — 0% 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.
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