Grants for Boys & Girls Clubs
If you run a Boys & Girls Club or similar youth club, this page is your starting point. Bespoke Grants tracks 10,734 foundations that fund boys & girls clubs — together $127.99B in recent grants. Below are the most active funders. Every one links to a full giving profile, and Bespoke Grants will rank all 10,734 against your organization's specific mission and location, free.
Foundations that fund boys & girls clubs
Ranked by total recent giving. Click any funder for its full profile — giving history, grant recipients, focus areas, and how to apply.
| # | Foundation | Based in | Annual giving |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund | Boston, MA | $7.32B |
| 2 | Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation | Seattle, WA | $5.37B |
| 3 | Schwab Charitable Fund | San Francisco, CA | $3.30B |
| 4 | Silicon Valley Community Foundation | Mountain View, CA | $2.64B |
| 5 | Gavi Alliance | — | $2.01B |
| 6 | Rural India Supporting Trust | Farmington Hills, MI | $1.38B |
| 7 | Mayo Clinic Group Return | Rochester, MN | $1.31B |
| 8 | Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc | Alpharetta, GA | $1.30B |
| 9 | Novo Nordisk Fonden | — | $1.17B |
| 10 | Conference on Jewish Material Claims | New York, NY | $1.07B |
| 11 | World Vision Inc | Federal Way, WA | $984.7M |
| 12 | American Online Giving Foundation Inc | Newark, DE | $979.0M |
| 13 | American Lebanese Syrian Associated | Memphis, TN | $974.7M |
| 14 | Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, MD | $905.3M |
| 15 | Mastercard Foundation | — | $886.7M |
| 16 | Baptist Health South Florida Inc | Coral Gables, FL | $885.6M |
| 17 | President and Fellows of Harvard College | Cambridge, MA | $817.0M |
| 18 | Lilly Endowment Inc | Indianapolis, IN | $789.6M |
| 19 | The Trustees of Columbia University | New York, NY | $773.3M |
| 20 | The Ford Foundation | New York, NY | $760.8M |
| 21 | Network for Good | Washington, DC | $667.3M |
| 22 | University of Southern California | Los Angeles, CA | $642.7M |
| 23 | Navigate Affordable Housing | Birmingham, AL | $639.4M |
| 24 | Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding | Indianapolis, IN | $635.6M |
| 25 | Northwestern University | Evanston, IL | $608.0M |
| 26 | Foundation to Promote Open Society | New York, NY | $593.3M |
| 27 | The Chicago Community Trust | Chicago, IL | $576.9M |
| 28 | University of Chicago | Chicago, IL | $572.2M |
| 29 | Save the Children Federation Inc | Fairfield, CT | $551.3M |
| 30 | Yale University | New Haven, CT | $550.9M |
This list is ranked by size. Yours should be ranked by fit.
The funders above are the biggest — not necessarily the right ones for your boys & girls clubs. Bespoke Grants ranks all 10,734 against your actual mission, service area, and budget, and shows you why each matches. Free, no credit card.
Match my organization to funders →How boys & girls clubs should approach these funders
A long list of funders is only useful if you approach them well. Three things matter more than the size of your boys & girls clubs: fit, evidence, and the first contact. Fit means the funder's stated priorities, the population they serve, and the geography they fund genuinely overlap with your work — funders reject far more proposals for poor fit than for weak programs. Evidence means a specific, concrete description of the need you address and what your funding will change. And the first contact is rarely a full proposal: most private foundations prefer a brief letter of inquiry, and many fund only organizations they already know — so a warm introduction or a short, well-targeted note is the realistic way in.
Frequently asked questions
- How do I find grants for boys & girls clubs?
- Start with foundations that already fund boys & girls clubs — our index lists 10,734. Match them to your specific mission, location, and budget, then approach the best fits with a brief letter of inquiry rather than a cold full proposal.
- How many foundations fund boys & girls clubs?
- Bespoke Grants tracks 10,734 foundations that fund boys & girls clubs, representing $127.99B in recent grants.
- Do these foundations accept unsolicited applications?
- Some do; many do not. Each foundation's profile shows what is known about its application process. Where a funder does not accept unsolicited proposals, relationship-building is still the path in — it is rarely a dead end.