Grants for youth service organizations

Name: Top 25 grants made to youth service organizations
Creator: Cause IQ
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3,710 youth service organizations received at least $365.7 million in grants for the most recent fiscal year. This includes 5,268 grants made from 3,166 grantmaking organizations, with a median grant amount of $1,500. Of these 3,166 foundations, 77% made just a single grant to youth service orgs, and 4% made grants to four or more youth service orgs. This analysis is based on grantmakers that e-file their Form 990s, and likely is an undercount of grants.

$365,687,140

Total grant dollars given to youth service organizations

5,268

Number of grants made annually to youth service organizations

3,166

Number of grantmakers funding youth service organizations

$1,500

Median grant size to youth service organizations

Foundations that support youth service organizations

Out of all grants made to youth service organizations, 80% came from small foundations with less than $10 million in assets. The top 10 grantmakers accounted for 73% of the dollar-value of grants to youth service orgs. Foundations funding youth service orgs also made grants to food banks, homeless shelters, multiservice human service organizations, youth development programs, and family service centers.

Foundation size

Foundation size	Number of grantmakers
Small	2,555
Medium	345
Large	265

Small foundations have <$10M in assets. Medium foundations have $10M to $50M in assets. Large foundations have >$50M in assets.

Foundation type

Foundation type	Number of grantmakers
Community	82
Private	2,612
Corporate	149
Other	323

Grants made

Grants made to youth service orgs	Number of grantmakers
1	2,467
2-3	566
4-10	105
11+	28

Top 10 foundations supporting youth service organizations

Grantmaker	State	Geographic focus	Percent of grant dollars to youth service orgs	Number of grants made to youth service orgs	Median grant size
Abbvie Foundation	IL	National	0.2%	82	$265
JP Morgan Chase Foundation	NY	National	0.0%	73	$500
Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee (CFMT)	TN	Metro	0.3%	65	$1,500
Westrock Foundation	GA	National	0.1%	65	$33
Community Foundation of Greater Des Moines	IA	State	0.2%	64	$1,000
Baird Foundation	WI	National	0.7%	61	$200
Ticket to Dream Foundation	CA	National	15.9%	56	$1,644
Seattle Foundation	WA	State	0.1%	51	$1,725
Carmax Foundation	VA	National	0.6%	51	$500
Shell Oil Company Foundation	TX	National	0.3%	38	$947

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Youth service organizations grantees

Youth service organizations with more than $5 million in total revenues received 94% of all grant dollars. These larger organizations accounted for 42% of all youth service orgs.

Grant amounts

Size of grant	Number of grants
<$10k	5,218
$10k-$25k	0
$25k-$100k	0
$100k+	50

Grant amount by grantee size

Grantee annual revenue	Median grant size
<$100k	$1,500
$100k-$500k	$2,000
$500k-$1M	$2,000
$1M-$5M	$1,500
>$5M	$1,500

Grantee states

State of grantee	Number of grants
California	659
Florida	453
New York	382
Texas	345
Other	3,429

Grantee metros

Metro area of grantee	Number of grants
New York City	349
Los Angeles	334
Chicago	227
Seattle	192
Other	3,845

Top 25 grants made to youth service organizations

Grantee	Grant size	Purpose	Grantmaker
Community Coordinated Care for Children	$77,531,584	SR & VPK	Early Learning Coalition of Orange
Harlem Children's Zone	$20,000,000	10 Year Strategic Plan Support	The Edna Mcconnell Clark Foundation
Bethany Christian Services	$16,196,878	Refugee Resettlement	Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service (LIRS)
Youth Villages	$14,000,000	To Support Scaling Plan	Blue Meridian Partners
Buckner International	$13,268,992	Cash	Buckner Foundation
Buckner International	$13,268,992	General Support	Buckner Foundation
Buckner International	$12,428,000	Cash	Buckner Foundation
Buckner International	$12,428,000	General Support	Buckner Foundation
The Children's Home Society of Florida	$9,359,853	Dependency Case Management	ChildNet
Campus Child Care	$9,300,000	Comm. Gift & Char. Contrib.	Harvard University
Wake County SmartStart (WCSS)	$7,240,674	NC Young Children	North Carolina Partnership for Children
Porter-Leath	$6,591,953	General Operational Support	Community Foundation of Greater Memphis
Mecklenburg Partnership for Children	$6,491,457	NC Young Children	North Carolina Partnership for Children
Lutheran Services Florida	$6,248,368	Child Welfare Services	Camelot Community Care
D.A. Blodgett - St John's	$6,009,615	Payment for Program Service Expenses	West Michigan Partnership for Children
Wellspring Lutheran Services / Lutheran Child & Family Service of Michigan Inc	$5,327,904	Payment for Program Service Expenses	West Michigan Partnership for Children
Rolling Plains Management Corporation	$5,283,707	To Provide Child Care Assistance To Low-Income Families in the Organization's Service Area.	Workforce Solutions North Texas
Association for Supportive Child Care (ASCC)	$5,280,688	Program Support	Valley of the Sun United Way
Harlem Children's Zone	$5,000,000	Annual Awards Dinner and Scholarship Fund	The Edna Mcconnell Clark Foundation
East Harlem Tutorial Program	$5,000,000	Pledged Gift To Support the Charter School Facility	MJS Foundation
Camelot Community Care	$4,681,163	Dependency Case Management	Partnership for Strong Families
Harlem Children's Zone	$4,500,000	Healthy Harlem	The JPB Foundation
Progressive Life Center (PLC)	$4,458,126	Program Support	DC Children and Youth Investment Trust Corporation
Eckerd Connects	$4,124,553	Job-Training	Philadelphia Works
The Children's Assessment Center (CAC)	$4,075,654	Abused Children Services	Children's Advocacy Centers of Texas

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Methodology: To determine grants and grantees, Cause IQ analyzes electronically-filed Form 990, Form 990-EZ, and Form 990-PF financial disclosure documents, matching grantees to specific organizations using EINs and fuzzy matching logic. The "Youth service organizations" category for this page is determined by the "P30: Childrens and Youth Services" National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities (NTEE) code. Cause IQ determines NTEEs for organizations by its own internally-developed secret-sauce algorithms.