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Youth Initiative Fund at a glance

· Public charity

Youth Initiative Fund

To develop the skills, understanding, knowledge and spiritual resources necessary for success in the 21st century.

$2.7M
Granted FY2018
27
Grants FY2018
9
States reached
$1.1M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2018.

Philanthropy$2.4MEducation$1.7MArts & Culture$490kHealth$300kInternational$200kReligion$180kCommunity Improvement$164kPublic Benefit$154kOther$0
02FY2018 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2018

  • Under $10k4 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $215k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $714k
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.8M
$25,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA$100,000
STANFORD LAW SCHOOL$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
02The need
03

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:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CARROLL CHILD CARE CENTERS INC: $25k → 6%ASIAN AMERICAN LEAD: $5k → 6%ASIAN AMERICAN LEAD: $5k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
NY
MA
OR
PA
CA
VA
MD
DC
GA
FL
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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.7M · 17 repeat orgs$416k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +49% since the first grant, against +33% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
9

Total granted

$2.7M
$131k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+33%

Still filing today

65%
89%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2018, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $285k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18
EducationHealthHuman ServicesInternationalCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • AC
    AMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEES
    2× · 2017–2018 · $440k · revenue +141%
  • Best Buddies International Inc
    2× · 2017–2018 · $200k · revenue +81%
  • UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA FOUNDATION
    2× · 2017–2018 · $200k · revenue +53%

Funded once

  • SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +31%
  • EF
    EPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF AMERICA
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +1%
  • SO
    SPECIAL OLYMPICS MARYLAND INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +33%
How this is measured

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

04Its 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.

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New York University

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.

Education
2
University of Southern California

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…

Education
3
Drexel University

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…

Education
4
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
5
Washington University

The washington university is a co-educational, nondenominational university with a long and distinguished history of teaching, research and (cont'd on schedule o)

Education
6
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
7
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

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…

Education
8
The Graduate School of the Stowers Institute for Medical Research

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.

Education
9
Southern California University of Health 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,…

Education
10
Western New England University

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…

Education
11
National Science and Technology Medals Foundation Inc

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…

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12
Lehigh University

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…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Epilepsy Foundation of America; 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.
04the grantee network

27 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

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

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/27
Grantees still filing
24/27
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE STERLING DONOR ADVISED FUND: $2,352,625 · PhilanthropyTHE STERLING DONOR ADVISED FUNDSIDWELL FRIENDS SCHOOL: $1,050,000 · OtherSIDWELL FRIENDS SCHOOLJUNIOR STATE OF AMERICA: $154,400 · OtherJUNIOR STATE OF AMERICAKEHILLAT MA ARAV-THE WESTSIDE CONGREGATION: $65,000 · Other+12 more: $266,800 · Other+12 moreAMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEES: $440,000 · EducationAMHERST COLLEGE TRUST…THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $225,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES…UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA FOUNDATION: $200,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINI…SCHOOLING FOR LIFE: $150,000 · EducationSCHOOLING FOR LIFE+5 more: $63,800 · Education+5 moreCHILDREN'S NATIONAL: $170,000 · HealthEPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $25,000 · HealthNYU LANGONE HOSPITALS: $25,000 · HealthFOUNDATION TO ERADICATE DUCHENNE INC: $20,000 · HealthBOSTON VA RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $20,000 · HealthCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $20,000 · HealthPROVIDENCE HEALTH & SERVICES FOUNDATION SAN FERNANDO & SANTA CLARITA VALLEYS SA: $20,000 · HealthBest Buddies International Inc: $200,000 · InternationalTHE CHEHALIS FOUNDATION: $163,825 · Community ImprovementCARROLL CHILD CARE CENTERS INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesAsian American LEAD: $10,000 · Human Services
Philanthropy$2,352,625Other$1,536,200Education$1,078,800Health$300,000International$200,000Community Improvement$163,825Human Services$35,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE STERLING DONOR ADVISED FUND: $2,352,625 over 2y, 27% of budgetAMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEES: $440,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $225,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBest Buddies International Inc: $200,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCHILDREN'S NATIONAL: $170,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSCHOOLING FOR LIFE: $150,000 over 1y, 58% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS MARYLAND INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWING LUKE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetNYU LANGONE HOSPITALS: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCARROLL CHILD CARE CENTERS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetFOUNDATION TO ERADICATE DUCHENNE INC: $20,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetBOSTON VA RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWHEATON COLLEGE: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPROVIDENCE HEALTH & SERVICES FOUNDATION SAN FERNANDO & SANTA CLARITA VALLEYS SA: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEmory University: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAsian American LEAD: $10,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetUniversity of Scranton: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOregon State University Foundation: $8,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Shalem Foundation: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of 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.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Millennium Evergreen …The Sterling Donor Ad…Kids Connect Charitab…May Liang and James L…Century Vision Benefi…Schooling for LifeAmerican Gift FundMorgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…American Endowment Fo…
Millennium Evergreen Charitable FundMD37× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Youth Initiative Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Youth Initiative Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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How do I get to Youth Initiative Fund?

Find your warmest path to Youth Initiative Fund 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 36 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 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2019) is on record and reports $5k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2018, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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who holds foundation money, and what just moved
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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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where grant money is based, and what stays home