To radically improve outcomes for children and their families by providing evidence-based, family-focused services and advocating for positive, long-term change in child welfare, juvenile justice and children’s mental health systems.
Youth Villages Foundation Inc directs its giving to one recipient in the recent grant record: Youth Villages Inc in Memphis, with three large general-operations grants recorded in 2023 and 2025. That pattern fits a funder built around supporting the organization’s own work rather than distributing a broad portfolio of outside awards. The foundation’s stated aim is to improve outcomes for children and their families through evidence-based, family-focused services and advocacy for long-term change in child welfare, juvenile justice, and children’s mental health systems. Its focus areas include child welfare, foster care, transition-age youth services, children’s mental and behavioral health, juvenile justice, and family preservation and reunification. The grants listed are all unrestricted operating support, pointing to a funding approach centered on organizational continuity, not project-specific awards. With annual grants of $99,771,505 and assets of $469,690,839, the foundation operates at a substantial scale while keeping its recent grantmaking local and concentrated in Tennessee. Greg Gregory is listed in leadership.
In child welfare and foster care, the foundation’s recent grants to Youth Villages Inc were all labeled general operations, including $36,274,163 in 2023 and $28,868,013 in 2025. That aligns with its focus on evidence-based, family-focused services tied to long-term system change. The same funding pattern also connects to transition-age youth services and family preservation and reunification, since the foundation’s stated mission includes helping children and their families across those stages. Its work also reaches children’s mental and behavioral health and juvenile justice. The foundation describes those areas directly in its summary of purpose, linking grant support to advocacy and service delivery rather than a narrow program line item. Across the recent record, the grants are unrestricted operating support, and the recipient is Youth Villages Inc in Memphis.
The grant-size distribution is tightly clustered: the 25th percentile is $31,748,671, the median is $34,629,329, and the 75th percentile is $35,451,746. That narrow band sits alongside a recent grant record made entirely to one organization, Youth Villages Inc, across 2023 and 2025, all for general operations. The foundation is structured as a foundation, not a donor-advised fund, and it does not make program-related investments or grants to individuals. The recurring appearance of the same recipient suggests a sustained operating-support relationship rather than one-off project funding.
$28.9M
$469.7M
$82.5M
$35.9M
Most grants fall between $31.7M and $35.5M, with a median of $34.6M.
25th Percentile
$31.7M
Median
$34.6M
75th Percentile
$35.5M
About 100% of grants go to recipients in TN.
GREG GREGORY
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Grantmaking is local and entirely in Tennessee: 100% of grants go to recipients in the HQ state, which is also the top state by grant count. The recent grant record names Memphis as the recipient city for Youth Villages Inc, matching the foundation’s headquarters city. The recipient country distribution is entirely U.S.-based, with 3 grants and no non-U.S. awards in the supplied data.
Its stated focus areas are child welfare, foster care, transition-age youth services, children’s mental and behavioral health, juvenile justice, and family preservation and reunification. The summary also says it aims to improve outcomes through evidence-based, family-focused services and advocacy for long-term change in child welfare, juvenile justice, and children’s mental health systems.
The recent grants are all labeled general operations, and the philosophy tags describe general operating support, unrestricted support, and core administrative funding. That indicates operating support rather than project-specific funding in the available record.
The grant-size distribution is very large and tightly grouped: p25 is $31,748,671, median is $34,629,329, and p75 is $35,451,746. The recent awards all fall within that range.
Its geographic scope is local, and 100% of grants in the provided data go to recipients in Tennessee. The recent grant record names Memphis as the recipient city, and the recipient country distribution is entirely U.S.-based.
2025
Source: IRS Form 990-PF, fiscal year 2025.
Most recent grants reported to the IRS.
| Recipient | Location | Amount | Year | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| YOUTH VILLAGES INC | MEMPHIS, TN | $28,868,013 | 2025 | GENERAL OPERATIONS |
| YOUTH VILLAGES INC | MEMPHIS, TN | $36,274,163 | 2023 | GENERAL OPERATIONS |
| YOUTH VILLAGES INC | MEMPHIS, TN | $34,629,329 | 2023 | GENERAL OPERATIONS |
YOUTH VILLAGES INC
$28,868,013GENERAL OPERATIONS
YOUTH VILLAGES INC
$36,274,163GENERAL OPERATIONS
YOUTH VILLAGES INC
$34,629,329GENERAL OPERATIONS