Virginia · Nonprofit
Young America's Foundation
Young America's Foundation (Virginia) receives grants from 575 organizations whose IRS filings report $60,983,627 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($7,086,064). 369 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $42M
- Funders on record
- 575
- Grants received
- $61M
- Net assets
- $106M
What Young America's Foundation does
Mission
Young America's Foundation is a leading youth outreach organization of the Conservative Movement which ensures that increasing numbers of young people understand and are inspired by the ideas of individual freedom, a strong national defense, free enterprise, and traditional values.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Conference/Lecture Programs:Foundation programs include lectures on colleges campuses, conferences throughout the nation, Young Americans for Freedom chapters, education training seminars and materials including hundreds of thousands of U.S. constitutions and internships. These programs reach thousands of students and millions more nationwide when they are on C-SPAN and online. YAF is leading the charge to advance the freedom of speech in America's schools. Through public records requests and active litigation, YAF is restoring students' First Amendment freedoms nationwide.
$24,716,137 spentof which $72,225 as grants$509,895 earned by the program82% of program spendingPublic Information/Education: The Foundation provides educational and informational materials to hundreds of thousands of Americans interested in advancing freedom and spreading prosperity. The Foundation's media and communications activities, including its website, newsletters, and mailings to the target audience garners broad-based, grassroots support and participation for the Foundation's mission and the many programs conducted throughout the year. The Foundation distributed over one million Reagan Ranch calendars through its communication program.
$4,512,452 spent15% of program spendingThe Reagan Ranch Program is devoted to preserving and protecting President Reagan's western White House, Rancho del Cielo, and educating young people on the lessons of his presidency at the Ranch and in the Reagan Ranch Center in Santa Barbara, CA. In addition to expenses reported above, the Foundation also made capital investments of $59,979 into Foundation properties.
$30,379 earned by the programNational Journalism Center
$783,586 spentof which $114,925 as grants$796,100 earned by the program3% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $30,012,175.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $93M to $108M (+16%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 129 funders to 248 funders, grant income rose $4.4M → $9.7M.
66 of 575 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 43% 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 Young America's Foundation’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 575 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
Young America's Foundation has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 12% of grant income, and it takes 16 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 16 funders to its left
43% 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 Young America's Foundation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 34% · 2018 13% · 2019 14% · 2020 7% · 2021 13% · 2022 11% · 2023 13% — 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.
How long its funders stay
49% of Young America's Foundation's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
Young America's Foundation draws 97% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 42 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $26M arriving through sponsors registered in 27 states 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.
Government funding Young America's Foundation receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $378 on record.
- REFUNDS - GENERAL $378
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Young America's Foundation
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 36 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Young America's Foundation: 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Young America's Foundation?
- Young America's Foundation (Virginia) receives grants from 575 organizations whose IRS filings report $60,983,627 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($7,086,064). 369 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Young America's Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 575 organizations giving $60,983,627 in grants to Young America's Foundation, 369 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Young America's Foundation?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $7,086,064 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Young America's Foundation find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 575 funders 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 October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing