Minnesota · Nonprofit
World Youth Connect
World Youth Connect (Minnesota) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $487,680 to it, the largest being Youthprise ($299,680). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
World Youth Connect runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,185 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,185 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Grotto Foundation Incshared funderslocalportfolio match
- Minnesota Voicelocalportfolio match
- The Sheltering Arms Foundationshared funders
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $8k → $147k.
1 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of World Youth Connect’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 6 of 7 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
World Youth Connect leans on a few funders — its largest provides 61% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
78% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund World Youth Connect.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 67% · 2023 69% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
100% of World Youth Connect's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $75k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 7 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Grotto Foundation Incshared funderslocalportfolio matchMN · backs 26 organizations that share your funders · funds 28 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Minnesota Voicelocalportfolio matchMN · funds 33 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Sheltering Arms Foundationshared fundersMN · backs 37 organizations that share your funders
- Social Venture Partners Minnesotaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Cargill Foundationshared fundersMN · backs 30 organizations that share your funders
- Meridian International Centerportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Young Mens Christian Association of the Northportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Minnesota Council on Foundationsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sundance Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Youth Volunteer Corpsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Minnesota Alliance for Volunteer Advancementportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- John and Denise Graves Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like World Youth Connect
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for World Youth Connect: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds World Youth Connect?
- World Youth Connect (Minnesota) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $487,680 to it, the largest being Youthprise ($299,680). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does World Youth Connect have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $487,680 in grants to World Youth Connect, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of World Youth Connect?
- Youthprise is the largest funder on record, with $299,680 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like World Youth Connect find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2025–2025), and the filings of 7funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing