Funding search · EIN 912117699 · Atlanta, GA

Boys & Girls Clubs of America (Group Return)

Name: Boys & Girls Clubs of America (Group Return) grants, 2022–2024
Creator: PaperOrbit
License: https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/exempt-organization-public-disclosure-and-availability-requirements

A grantmaking public charity (files IRS Form 990, Schedule I). Charities like this often run real grant programs with application cycles.

1,490
grants reported: $260.7M
total given: 2022–2024
filing years: $70,095
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2022–2024. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

What they fund

bgca

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Funding pattern

What this funder pays for, at what size, and how to position adjacent work. Read from their filings, with every number checked against the record.

Where the money goes

Operating support to local Boys & Girls Club affiliates
Youth club programming in small-city and rural Tennessee, Ohio, Illinois
Club operations in Deep South states: Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia
Metro-area club networks (Atlanta, Chicago, Memphis, Kansas City, Cincinnati)
Tribal and small-town clubs (Bay Mills MI, Waterville ME, Casper WY)

Typical grant

Median grant is $70,095, with the middle half between $27,104 and $185,697. The largest checks, $1M to $3.9M, go to multi-site regional club organizations like Tennessee Valley, Ocoee Region, and Metro Atlanta; the small ones go to single-site clubs in towns like Orrville, Ohio or Alma, Arkansas. With 1,490 grants across 1,173 recipients over three years, most affiliates appear more than once, so this reads as recurring annual flow rather than one-time awards.

Their words

Phrases from their own grant descriptions, worth speaking back to them.

“SUPPORT BGCA PROGRAMS”
“BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF”
“B&GC”
“CLUB”

Positioning adjacent work

Treat this as a federation group return, not an open funder. Money moves only to chartered Club affiliates.
Route any collaboration through a local Club as fiscal host; ask in the $25K to $185K band.
Emphasize direct youth program delivery at Club sites, the only purpose named in every filing.
Target affiliates in Tennessee, Ohio, Illinois, Mississippi and Arkansas, where the largest dollars concentrate.

Worth knowing: This is a group IRS return covering Boys & Girls Clubs of America and its member organizations, so every dollar in the file goes to a Club entity; there is no evidence of a single grant to an unaffiliated nonprofit. Recipient counts skew to TX, MA, CA, GA and NY, but the top dollar amounts cluster heavily in Tennessee and Ohio, where a handful of regional Clubs take multi-million-dollar shares.

3 grants matching “massillon” · $1.8M

$281,234
Bgc of Massillon · Massillon, OH · 2024
Support bgca programs
$962,616
Bgc of Massillon · Massillon, OH · 2023
Support BGCA Program
$579,106
B&Gc of Massillon · Massillon, OH · 2022
Support BGCA Program

Top recipients

Repeat recipients are the strongest signal of whether a funder has an open door or quietly re-funds the same organizations.

B&Gc of Metro Atlanta2 grants · $5.7M
B&Gc of Metro Atlanta1 grant · $5.0M
B&Gc of the East Valley1 grant · $4.7M
Bgc of Northeast Ohio2 grants · $4.7M
Boys & Girls Clubs of the Tennessee Valley2 grants · $4.6M
B&Gc of Northeast Ohio1 grant · $4.1M
B&Gc of Southeast Georgia2 grants · $2.2M
B&Gc of Southeast Georgia1 grant · $2.1M
B&Gc of the Gulf Coast2 grants · $2.0M
Union League Boys & Girls Clubs2 grants · $1.9M

Giving over time

$99.3M

2022

$115.6M

2023

$45.7M

2024

Grant history

The 100 largest of 1,490 grants.

$5.0M
B&Gc of Metro Atlanta · Atlanta, GA · 2022
Support BGCA Program
$4.7M
B&Gc of the East Valley · Phoenix, AZ · 2022
Support BGCA Program
$4.6M
B&Gc of Metro Atlanta · Atlanta, GA · 2023
Support BGCA Program
$4.1M
B&Gc of Northeast Ohio · Cleveland, OH · 2022
Support BGCA Program
$3.9M
Boys & Girls Clubs of the Tennessee Valley · Knoxville, TN · 2024
Support bgca programs
$3.6M
Bgc of Northeast Ohio · Cleveland, OH · 2023
Support BGCA Program
$2.1M
B&Gc of Southeast Georgia · Brunswick, GA · 2022
Support BGCA Program
$1.9M
B&Gc of Greater Scottsdale · Scottsdale, AZ · 2022
Support BGCA Program
$1.7M
Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Cincinnati · Cincinnati, OH · 2022
Support BGCA Program
$1.6M
B&Gc of Southeast Georgia · Brunswick, GA · 2023
Support BGCA Program
$1.6M
Boys & Girls Clubs of Ocoee Region · Cleveland, TN · 2024
Support bgca programs
$1.6M
B&Gc of Central Wyoming · Casper, WY · 2023
Support BGCA Program
$1.6M
Bgc of Greater Augusta (Csra) · Augusta, GA · 2023
Support BGCA Program
$1.6M
B&Gc of the Gulf Coast · Gulfport, MS · 2023
Support BGCA Program
$1.5M
B&Gc of Hall County · Gainesville, GA · 2022
Support BGCA Program
$1.5M
Union League Boys & Girls Clubs · Chicago, IL · 2023
Support BGCA Program
$1.4M
B&Gc of the Chattahoochee Valley · Columbus, GA · 2023
Support BGCA Program
$1.4M
B&Gc of East Mississippi · Meridian, MS · 2023
Support BGCA Program
$1.4M
B&Gc of Hall County · Gainesville, GA · 2023
Support BGCA Program
$1.4M
B&Gc of the Central Savannah River Area · Augusta, GA · 2022
Support BGCA Program
$1.3M
B&Gc of the Chattahoochee Valley · Columbus, GA · 2022
Support BGCA Program
$1.3M
Boys & Girls Clubs of Dumplin Valley · White Pine, TN · 2024
Support bgca programs
$1.2M
Harlan County B&Gc · Harlan, KY · 2023
Support BGCA Program
$1.2M
B&Gc of Metro Atlanta · Atlanta, GA · 2024
Support bgca programs
$1.1M
B&Gc of Lawrence · Lawrence, KS · 2023
Support BGCA Program
$1.1M
B&Gc of Bowling Green Ky · Bowling Green, KY · 2023
Support BGCA Program
$1.1M
Boys and Girls Club of Lawrence County · Bedford, IN · 2023
Support BGCA Program
$1.1M
Bgc of Northeast Ohio · Cleveland, OH · 2024
Support bgca programs
$1.1M
B&Gc of Central Georgia · Macon, GA · 2022
Support BGCA Program
$1.1M
Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Kansas City · Kansas City, MO · 2023
Support BGCA Program
$1.1M
B&Gc of Franklin-Simpson County · Franklin, KY · 2022
Support BGCA Program
$1.1M
B&Gc of Glasgow-Barren County · Glasgow, KY · 2023
Support BGCA Program
$1.1M
B&Gc of Kentuckiana · Louisville, KY · 2022
Support BGCA Program
$1.1M
B&Gc of Central Georgia · Macon, GA · 2023
Support BGCA Program
$1.1M
Union League Boys & Girls Clubs · Chicago, IL · 2022
Support BGCA Program
$1.0M
Tom Browning B&Gc · Maysville, KY · 2022
Support BGCA Program
$1.0M
Oscar Cross B&Gc of Paducah · Paducah, KY · 2022
Support BGCA Program
$1.0M
Cliff Hagan Bgc · Owensboro, KY · 2022
Support BGCA Program
$1.0M
B&Gc of Hopkinsville - Christian County · Hopkinsville, KY · 2022
Support BGCA Program
$1.0M
Bgc Central Ohio · Columbus, OH · 2023
Support BGCA Program
$982,100
Bgc of Toledo · Toledo, OH · 2023
Support BGCA Program
$975,627
B&Gc of Athens · Athens, GA · 2022
Support BGCA Program
$975,061
B&Gc Central Ohio · Columbus, OH · 2022
Support BGCA Program
$971,349
Boys & Girls Club of Livingston County · Pontiac, IL · 2023
Support BGCA Program
$971,076
Boys & Girls Club of Elgin · Elgin, IL · 2023
Support BGCA Program
$966,008
Boys & Girls Club of Dundee Township · Carpentersville, IL · 2022
Support BGCA Program
$962,616
Bgc of Massillon · Massillon, OH · 2023
Support BGCA Program
$957,879
Boys & Girls Clubs of Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2023
Support BGCA Program
$946,850
Greater Cincinnati · Cincinnati, OH · 2023
Support BGCA Program
$926,216
Boys & Girls Club of Dundee Township · Carpentersville, IL · 2023
Support BGCA Program
$890,183
B&Gc of Athens · Athens, GA · 2023
Support BGCA Program
$889,402
B&Gc of Valdosta · Valdosta, GA · 2022
Support BGCA Program
$886,435
Bgc Central Ohio · Columbus, OH · 2024
Support bgca programs
$885,814
B&Gc of Central Florida · Orlando, FL · 2022
Support BGCA Program
$854,984
B&Gc of Topeka · Topeka, KS · 2023
Support BGCA Program
$837,366
B&Gc of North Mississippi · Tupelo, MS · 2023
Support BGCA Program
$816,970
B&Gc of Grand Rapids Youth Commonwealth · Grand Forks Afb, MI · 2023
Support BGCA Program
$812,094
B&Gc of Albany · Albany, GA · 2022
Support BGCA Program
$810,073
Boys & Girls Clubs of South Central Tennessee · Columbia, TN · 2024
Support bgca programs
$782,578
B&Gc of Central Florida · Orlando, FL · 2023
Support BGCA Program
$780,378
Boys & Girls Club of Dundee Township · Carpentersville, IL · 2024
Support bgca programs
$768,958
B&Gc of Manhattan · Manhattan, KS · 2023
Support BGCA Program
$764,974
Bgc of Metro Denver · Denver, CO · 2023
Support BGCA Program
$756,650
B&Gc of Tucson · Tucson, AZ · 2022
Support BGCA Program
$750,863
B&Gc of Northwest Georgia · Rome, GA · 2022
Support BGCA Program
$744,748
Boys & Girls Clubs of Chattanooga · Chattanooga, TN · 2024
Support bgca programs
$743,220
B&Gc of Valdosta · Valdosta, GA · 2023
Support BGCA Program
$742,010
Boys & Girls Clubs of North Alabama · Huntsville, AL · 2023
Support BGCA Program
$723,447
Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Kingsport · Kingsport, TN · 2024
Support bgca programs
$697,511
Bgc of the Valley · Phoenix, AZ · 2023
Support BGCA Program
$694,933
B&Gc of Northwest Georgia · Rome, GA · 2023
Support BGCA Program
$692,287
B&Gc of the Mississippi Delta · Flowood, MS · 2023
Support BGCA Program
$681,479
Boys & Girls Club of Lake County · Waukegan, IL · 2023
Support BGCA Program
$677,426
Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Kansas City · Kansas City, MO · 2022
Support BGCA Program
$671,977
Boys & Girls Clubs of the Tennessee Valley · Knoxville, TN · 2023
Support BGCA Program
$661,411
Frank Callen B&Gc · Savannah, GA · 2022
Support BGCA Program
$657,574
B&Gc of East Mississippi · Meridian, MS · 2022
Support BGCA Program
$656,894
B&Gc of Albany · Albany, GA · 2023
Support BGCA Program
$650,196
Boys & Girls Club of Elgin · Elgin, IL · 2022
Support BGCA Program
$649,895
B&Gc of Bartow County · Cartersville, GA · 2022
Support BGCA Program
$649,204
B&Gc of Central Mississippi · Jackson, MS · 2023
Support BGCA Program
$646,593
B&Gc of the Colorado Valley · Bullhead City, AZ · 2022
Support BGCA Program
$627,183
Bgc of Washington County · Marietta, OH · 2023
Support BGCA Program
$626,506
Boys & Girls Club of Elgin · Elgin, IL · 2024
Support bgca programs
$618,079
B&Gc of Northeast Florida · Jacksonville, FL · 2022
Support BGCA Program
$607,732
Boys & Girls Club of Livingston County · Pontiac, IL · 2022
Support BGCA Program
$605,993
Boys & Girls Club of Livingston County · Pontiac, IL · 2024
Support bgca programs
$605,065
B&Gc of Broward County · Fort Lauderdale, FL · 2022
Support BGCA Program
$599,942
B&Gc of South Central Kansas · Wichita, KS · 2023
Support BGCA Program
$586,761
B&Gc of Northeast Florida · Jacksonville, FL · 2023
Support BGCA Program
$582,119
B&Gc of Southeast Georgia · Brunswick, GA · 2024
Support bgca programs
$580,233
B&Gc of the Gulf Coast · Gulfport, MS · 2022
Support BGCA Program
$579,106
B&Gc of Massillon · Massillon, OH · 2022
Support BGCA Program
$566,311
B&Gc of Bulloch County · Statesboro, GA · 2022
Support BGCA Program
$565,434
Boys & Girls Clubs of Kern County · Bakersfield, CA · 2023
Support BGCA Program
$564,649
B&Gc of Bartow County · Cartersville, GA · 2023
Support BGCA Program
$536,993
Boys & Girls Clubs of Middle Tennessee · Nashville, TN · 2024
Support bgca programs
$533,048
Bgc of Hamilton · Hamilton, OH · 2023
Support BGCA Program
$531,787
Bgc of Gordon Murray & Whitfield Counties · Dalton, GA · 2023
Support BGCA Program
$527,539
B&Gc of Gordon Murray & Whitfield Counties · Dalton, GA · 2022
Support BGCA Program

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Source: IRS Form 990, Schedule I, as filed by this organization. These are grants already paid. Grants paid directly to individuals are reported to the IRS only as totals, so they do not appear as named lines here.