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

Start with the funders already giving to youth development in Texas, currently Salesmanship Club of Dallas, Boys & Girls Clubs of America, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund. Then look at who funds the youth development organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into Texas from out of state.

How much grant money goes to youth development in Texas?

$1.6B reached 1,583 youth development organizations in Texas, from 3,620 funders. 65% came from funders also based in Texas.

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 · Texas · Youth development

Who funds youth development in Texas

Youth development funding in Texas is unusually spread out: no single organization draws even 12%, though Momentous Institute leads, and the money reaches 1,583 groups.

$1.6B

granted

1,583

organizations

65%

from in-state

The short version

3,620 funders gave $1.6B to 1,583 youth development organizations in Texas across the FY2022 and FY2023 IRS filings.
65% of that came from funders also based in Texas; the rest reached in from out of state.
The largest funder of youth development in Texas is Salesmanship Club of Dallas, at $83M.
The youth development organization drawing the most is Momentous Institute, at $104M.

Largest funders of youth development in Texas

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

1Salesmanship Club of Dallas$83M 2Boys & Girls Clubs of America$64M 3Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund$46M 4Lilly Endowment Inc$40M 5National Boy Scouts of America Foundation$39M 6National Philanthropic Trust$32M 7United Way of Greater Houston$31M 8Communities Foundation of Texas Inc$27M 9The Bass Charitable Corporation$25M 10Burnett Foundation$25M

Youth development organizations in Texas that draw the most

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

1,573 other youth development organizations$1.1B

Momentous Institute$104M Boy Scouts of America$70M

How to find youth development funders in Texas

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Start with the funders already active in Texas
The funders giving the most to youth development in Texas are Salesmanship Club of Dallas, Boys & Girls Clubs of America, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund. 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
35% of youth development money in Texas comes from funders elsewhere, so national youth development funders are worth approaching even if they are not based in Texas.

Questions and answers

How do I find funders for a youth development nonprofit in Texas?: Start with the funders already giving to youth development in Texas, currently Salesmanship Club of Dallas, Boys & Girls Clubs of America, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund. Then look at who funds the youth development organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into Texas from out of state.
Who is the largest youth development funder in Texas?: Salesmanship Club of Dallas gives the most to youth development organizations in Texas, $83M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.
How much grant money goes to youth development in Texas?: $1.6B reached 1,583 youth development organizations in Texas, from 3,620 funders. 65% came from funders also based in Texas.
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 endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

State money flows

the interactive map of money crossing state lines

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.