About Youth Villages Foundation
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.
Focus Areas
Child welfareFoster careTransition-age youth servicesChildren's mental and behavioral healthJuvenile justiceFamily preservation and reunification
Funding Style
general operating supportunrestricted supportcore administrative funding
Topics
organizational capacityoperational sustainability
About Youth Villages Foundation
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.
What Youth Villages Foundation Funds
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.
How Youth Villages Foundation Gives
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.
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$76.8M
Total Assets
$583.1M
Total Revenue
$56.3M
Total Expenses
$55.7M
Typical Grant Size
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
Geographic Reach
Local1 state funded
Funding intensity
LowHigh
Headquarters
Leadership
GREG GREGORY
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