How do I find funders for a youth development nonprofit in California?

Start with the funders already giving to youth development in California, currently Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc. Then look at who funds the youth development organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into California from out of state.

Who is the largest youth development funder in California?

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund gives the most to youth development organizations in California, $175M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.

How much grant money goes to youth development in California?

$3.1B reached 3,374 youth development organizations in California, from 7,271 funders. 58% came from funders also based in California.

How recent is this data?

It is read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file filings for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, the two years with complete coverage. US charity filings lag 12 to 24 months.

Funding · California · Youth development

Who funds youth development in California

Youth development funding in California is unusually spread out: no single organization draws even 12%, though Boys & Girls Clubs of the Peninsula leads, and the money reaches 3,374 groups.

$3.1B

granted

3,374

organizations

58%

from in-state

The short version

7,271 funders gave $3.1B to 3,374 youth development organizations in California across the FY2022 and FY2023 IRS filings.
58% of that came from funders also based in California; the rest reached in from out of state.
The largest funder of youth development in California is Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, at $175M.
The youth development organization drawing the most is Boys & Girls Clubs of the Peninsula, at $113M.

Largest funders of youth development in California

The funders giving the most to youth development organizations in California, in-state and out. Pick one for its dossier.

1Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund$175M 2Silicon Valley Community Foundation$172M 3Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc$90M 4National Philanthropic Trust$83M 5Boys & Girls Clubs of America$83M 6The California Endowment$51M 7American Online Giving Foundation Inc$49M 8Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc$44M 9California Community Foundation$44M 10The San Francisco Foundation$40M

Youth development organizations in California that draw the most

Sized by grant dollars received. Pick one to see exactly who funds it.

3,364 other youth development organizations$2.5B

Boys & Girls Clubs of the Peninsula$113M Homeboy Industries$113M

How to find youth development funders in California

1
Start with the funders already active in California
The funders giving the most to youth development in California are Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc. A funder already writing youth development checks in your state is the warmest place to begin.
2
See who funds organizations like yours
Open the youth development organizations on this page that resemble yours in size or work, and look at who funds them. Shared funders are the strongest signal of fit.
3
Add the out-of-state funders reaching in
42% of youth development money in California comes from funders elsewhere, so national youth development funders are worth approaching even if they are not based in California.

Questions and answers

How do I find funders for a youth development nonprofit in California?: Start with the funders already giving to youth development in California, currently Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc. Then look at who funds the youth development organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into California from out of state.
Who is the largest youth development funder in California?: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund gives the most to youth development organizations in California, $175M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.
How much grant money goes to youth development in California?: $3.1B reached 3,374 youth development organizations in California, from 7,271 funders. 58% came from funders also based in California.
How recent is this data?: It is read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file filings for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, the two years with complete coverage. US charity filings lag 12 to 24 months.

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

State money flows

the interactive map of money crossing state lines

Giving abroad

which US foundations fund each country

Each grant is placed by its stated purpose and the recipient's mission, falling back to the recipient's IRS activity category where that is unclear; location is the recipient's state on its most recent filing. Grant figures are read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file XML for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, among recipients resolved by EIN. Source: IRS Form 990 downloads.