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Youth Service America
Washington, DC · EIN 52-1500870. Reported 84 grants totalling $1,613,350 to 63 organizations across tax years 2021-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Youth Service America, the IRS classifies it under youth development rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE O51Z) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 63 distinct organizations, with 26% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 29% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 2 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $9,000. Half of what it reported fell between $7,500 and $12,500; the smallest was $5,500 and the largest $355,250. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All Other Grantees | Washington, DC | $415,050 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| All Other Grants | Washington, DC | $355,250 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| United Way of Genesee County | Flint, MI | $75,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Mi Community Service Commission | Lansing, MI | $37,500 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Center for Acknowledging the Values Accomplishments and Lives of | San Antonio, TX | $30,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| My Sister S Keeper | Highland Park, MI | $28,500 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| S C R a P Gallery | Cathedral City, CA | $24,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Generationnation Inc | Charlotte, NC | $22,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Amazing Testimonies Incorporated | Gaston, SC | $21,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Engage Arkansas | Little Rock, AR | $19,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Massachusetts Service Alliance Inc | Boston, MA | $19,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Perry Local Schools | Perry, OH | $19,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Volunteer Center of South Jersey | Sewell, NJ | $19,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Learn and Serve Tampa Inc | San Antonio, FL | $18,500 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| John Marshall High School | Oklahoma City, OK | $18,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Norte Vista High School | Riverside, CA | $18,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| The Leaders Readers Network | Canyon, TX | $17,750 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Young Women of Promise Inc | Winterville, NC | $17,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| University of Maryland | College Park, MD | $16,500 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Volunteer Iowa | Des Moines, IA | $15,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Family Career and Community Leaders of America Inc | Roseville, MN | $15,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Girard College | Philadelphia, PA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Lets Thrive Baltimore Inc | Owings Mills, MD | $15,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Family Career & Community Leaders of America Inc Montana Association | Bozeman, MT | $14,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| United Way of the Plains | Wichita, KS | $14,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Young Womens Preparatory Network | Dallas, TX | $14,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| A Better Chance a Better Community | Enfield, NC | $13,500 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Maryland Youth and the Law Inc | Baltimore, MD | $13,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| 5TH Inc | Hollywood, FL | $12,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| After-School All-Stars Hawaii | Honolulu, HI | $12,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Gamebred Youth & Families Inc | Miami, FL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Kahoomiki | Honolulu, HI | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Norte Vista High School | Riverside, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Swat Foundation Inc | Augusta, GA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| State of Michigan Mcsc | Lansing, MI | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Greenhouse International Church | Houston, TX | $9,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Morning Bishop Theatre Playhouse Inc | Gary, IN | $9,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| United Way of the Dutchess-Orange Region Inc | Poughkeepsie, NY | $9,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Volunteer Center of Morgan County | Decatur, AL | $9,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Anne Arundel County Public Schools | Annapolis, MD | $9,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of the Blue Ridge Inc | Martinsville, VA | $9,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Coahoma Community College | Clarksdale, MS | $9,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Democracy Prep Public Schools | New York, NY | $9,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Family Career and Community Leaders of America Inc | Sunman, IN | $9,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Houston Independent School District Foundation | Houston, TX | $9,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Louisiana 4-H Foundation | Baton Rouge, LA | $9,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Manor High School | Portsmouth, VA | $9,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Organized Youth Inc | Saugus, MA | $9,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| John Marshall High School | Oklahoma City, OK | $8,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Cobb Collaborative Inc | Smyrna, GA | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Urban Affairs Coalition | Philadelphia, PA | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Redhouse Arts Center Inc | Syracuse, NY | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Shining Stars Leadership Academy | Houston, TX | $6,800 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Carter County Drug Prevention Coalition | Elizabethton, TN | $6,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Big Walnut Middle School | Sunbury, OH | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Dream It Forward Foundation Inc | Fayetteville, GA | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Detroit Public Schools District | Detroit, MI | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| East Central High School | Saint Leon, IN | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Louisiana 4-H Foundation | Covington, LA | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Lewiston 21ST Century | Lewiston, ME | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| So What Else Inc | Bethesda, MD | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Team Kids Inc | Irvine, CA | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Girls Lives Ultimately Empowered Divinely Inc | Stockbridge, GA | $5,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
18 of 63 (29%) received money in more than one year over the 3 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- State of Michigan Mcsc
National Days of Service Lead Agency Grants and Youth Service Zone Grant and Harris Wofford Award - United Way of Genesee County
Youth Genesee Serves Subgrants - Generationnation
National Days of Service Lead Agency Grant and Youth Service Zone Grant - Volunteer Iowa
Youth Service Zone Grant and 50by250 Lead Organizer Grant and Harris Wofford Award - Girard College
Youth Service Zone Grants - Amazing Testimonies
National Days of Service Lead Agency Grant and 50by250 Lead Organizer Grant
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 33 of 63 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 24 | $550,300 | $8,000 |
| 2022 | 46 | $726,150 | $9,500 |
| 2023 | 14 | $336,900 | $8,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
48% of its giving went to organizations in District of Columbia. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
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How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $9,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in District of Columbia.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Youth Service America's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 3 returns (tax years 2021-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 14 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: Po Box 65525, Washington, DC, 20035.
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