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 public funder overview, and Bespoke Grants will rank all 10,734 against your organization's specific mission and location. One lifetime free search includes up to three sourced matches; further searches and the full workflow are $19/month. No credit card is needed for the preview.
Foundations that fund boys & girls clubs
Ranked by total recent giving. Click any funder for its public overview and up to three sample grants. Full grant history and research tools require All access at $19/month.
| # | 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. One lifetime free search includes up to three sourced matches; further searches and the full workflow are $19/month. No credit card is needed for the preview.
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.