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Youth Service America
Youth Service America is on a mission to make working together for the common good the common expectation and common experience of every young person in America.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $75k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $175k
- $250k+1 grant · $267k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $266,692 |
| Boys and Girls Clubs of America | $47,000 |
| State of Michigan MCSC | $25,000 |
| United Way of Genesee County | $25,000 |
| Arkansas MLK Commission | $21,241 |
| NJ Department of State | $15,000 |
| GenerationNation | $11,000 |
| Norte Vista High School | $11,000 |
| Executive Office State of Arizona | $10,000 |
| Global Citizen | $10,000 |
| The Leaders Readers Network | $9,250 |
| CAVALRY | $9,000 |
| John Marshall High School | $9,000 |
| S C R A P Gallery | $8,200 |
| Youth Leadership Institute of Erie | $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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $139k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 76% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +24% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.
31 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $108k 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
- TSTHE SCRAP GALLERY7× · 2019–2025 · $53k · revenue +3%
- TLThe Leaders Readers Network5× · 2020–2025 · $44k · revenue ×12
- GIGENERATIONNATION INC3× · 2021–2025 · $40k · revenue +54%
Funded once
Save The Children Federation Incone grant, 2017 · $32k · revenue +21%- GIGina's Ink Incorporated (Change My World Now)one grant, 2017 · $25k
- FFFUTURE FARMERS OF AMERICA BARNESVILLE MN ALUMNI ASone grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue -100%
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.
Cincinnati Youth Collaborative ("CYC") empowers young people to overcome barriers and excel in education, career, and life.
With love and respect, we partner with opportunity youth to build the skillsets and mindsets that lead to lifelong learning, livelihood, and leadership. youthbuild strives to create a world where all young people are seen for their…
The Youth Activism Project teaches teens movement-building skills to make policy impact at all levels of government. We envision a world in which youth activism is the norm, not the exception. We know that even though many young people are…
The young men's christian association of birmingham, inc. is a charitable organization that opens its doors to all women, men, families, teenagers, and children regardless of their ability to pay. the mission of the ymca is to put…
Global kids educates, inspires and mobilizes youth to become global citizens who are positively engaged in the world and are prepared for their future.
City year helps students and schools succeed, while preparing the next generation of civically engaged leaders who can work across lines of difference. partnering with teachers, teams of city year americorps members cultivate learning…
Jobsfirstnyc's mission is to create and advance solutions that break down barriers and transform the systems supporting young adults and their communities in the pursuit of economic opportunities.
We engage youth in team-based service experiences that build life and work skills while inspiring a lifetime ethic of service.
Youth, improving non-profits for children (d/b/a "youth inc") strengthens youth-serving nonprofits by equipping them with the tools, resources, and strategies to overcome barriers, achieve sustainable growth, and expand their impact. we…
Youth & opportunity united, inc. is a not-for-profit, youth development agency that provides services and leadership to meet the emerging needs of young people and their families in our community. y.o.u. programs are trauma-informed,…
Youthbuild pcs seeks to transform the lives of disconnected youth by offering a program, in english and spanish, that combines rigorous academic instruction with vocational training, life and employability skills- building, and community…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ywca Usa Inc and the most unlike its peers is Kahoomiki. 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 22 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
63 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. 63 of the 132 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 UNITED WAY OF GENESEE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds THE SCRAP GALLERY ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR ACKNOWLEDGING THE VALUES ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND LIVES OF ↗
- Who funds The Leaders Readers Network ↗
- Who funds GENERATIONNATION INC ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA ASSOC OF FAMILY CAREER AND COMMUNITY LEADERS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds LETS THRIVE BALTIMORE ↗
- Who funds FAMILY CAREER & COMMUNITY LEADERS OF AME MONTANA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds FUTURE FARMERS OF AMERICA BARNESVILLE MN ALUMNI AS ↗
- Who funds CAMP FIRE ↗
- Who funds YWCA USA INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTH ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS SERVICE ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds Volunteer Center of South Jersey ↗
- Who funds Learn and Serve Tampa Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY YOUTH CONCEPTS ↗
- Who funds URBAN AFFAIRS COALITION ↗
- Who funds AFTER-SCHOOL ALL-STARS ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE INLAND NORTHWEST ↗
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: Share Our Strength · GenYOUTH Incorporated · IOLA Foundation · One Warm Coat · Tradewind Group Foundation · New York Life Foundation · Keep America Beautiful Inc · Good Sports Inc · NRA Foundation Inc · For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) · Round It Up America Inc · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc
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 Service America 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.
- Massachusetts Service Alliance Inc — 100% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Cradles to Crayons Inc — 2% of income from government
- Keep Lee County Beautiful Inc — 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.