Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
Young Voices
Young Voices (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 51 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,622,409 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($971,500). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.2M
- Funders on record
- 51
- Grants received
- $3.6M
- Net assets
- $1.4M
What Young Voices does
Mission
To cultivate the next generation of thought leaders for liberty in policy, journalism, and academia.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Contributor Program: Young Voices' Contributor Program provides pro bono op-ed editing, pitching, and broadcast interview placement services to talented writers ages 18-35 knowledgeable in the classical liberal tradition. Our last fiscal year we successfully placed 2,153 media hits (e.g. op-ed, radio, TV, podcast, etc.) in noted outlets including Fox News, USA Today, and the Wall Street Journal, reaching an estimated audience of 153 million. Beyond our entry-level placement services, Young Voices also offers continuing education and mentorship services for the top talents in our program, including fellowship programs, summits, professional mentorship, and other PR services for young professionals in our network.
$1,267,981 spent82% of program spendingThe Dissident Project: The Dissident Project is a speakers bureau founded by Young Voices to educate American high schoolers about the value of liberty through the firsthand stories of people who have lived without it. Since launching in 2022, the Dissident Project has delivered 151 talks to more than 25,000 students nationwide, sharing powerful lessons from immigrants who escaped tyranny for freedom.
$146,776 spentof which $6,000 as grants9% of program spendingYoung Voices Europe:Launched in 2022, Young Voices Europe offers article placement services to classical liberal writers living in the European Union. At a time when European political discourse is stuck between the regulatory overreach and speech restrictions of the progressive left and the nationalist and isolationist tendencies of the hard right, Young Voices Europe is introducing the Old World to fresh perspectives promoting consumer choice and individual liberties.
$114,932 spent7% of program spendingHuman Dignity Fellowship:YV aims to amplify the voices of young people pushing back against statism in Europe. Through training and mentorship, YV will showcase young people who are championing freedom in Europe's least free countries. They will write and publish op-eds in the mainstream media in their countries, standing up for property rights, economic freedom, and equality before the law. The result will be a chorus of coordinated but distinct young voices who proclaim the cause of freedom and dignity in the countries where they are most sorely lacking.
Young Voices Debates:Launched in the fall of 2024, Young Voices Debates is a bold experiment to revive civil, high-level discourse on polarizing policy questions. Hosted monthly in New York City and streamed live, the Oxford-style series draws an average of 125 attendees per event in person and has amassed over 100,000 views across X, YouTube, and CiVL. Each debate pairs rising and established voices from across the ideological spectrum to tackle questions that matter, from foreign policy to civil liberties, in a format that rewards clarity over conflict. As an extension of our media training mission, Young Voices Debates gives our contributors and friends a space to sharpen their arguments, test ideas in real time, and model the kind of respectful exchange that's all too rare in today's media landscape.
$15,930 spent1% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,545,619.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2021 to 2022, from $403k to $833k (+107%).
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. 0 of the last 6 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.
Chief executive
Casey Given
President and CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 28 funders, grant income rose $132k → $743k.
8 of 51 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 44% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $150k from one payer (an institutional transfer, not a grant programme, largest The Donald and Paula Smith Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money Young Voices raised.
From the IRS filings of Young Voices’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 51 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 Voices has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
63% 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 Voices.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 34% · 2018 76% · 2019 44% · 2020 43% · 2021 36% · 2022 16% · 2023 26% — 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
64% of Young Voices's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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 Voices draws 90% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 18 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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.
Organizations like Young Voices
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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
74%
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 Young Voices: 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 Voices?
- Young Voices (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 51 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,622,409 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($971,500). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Young Voices have?
- IRS filings report 51 organizations giving $3,622,409 in grants to Young Voices, 30 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Young Voices?
- VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM is the largest funder on record, with $971,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Young Voices find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 51 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing