About Young Futures
We’re on a mission to make the digital world an easier place to grow up
We fund and scale nonprofit solutions that tackle the pressures of growing up in a tech-driven world.
What is Digital Tension?
What We Do
Young Futures funds, supports, and amplifies nonprofit leaders working at the intersection of youth wellbeing and technology. Through capital, capacity-building, and storytelling, we help proven solutions scale and shape a healthier digital future for young people.
YF500
A philanthropic ‘index fund' supporting 500 nonprofit leaders over the next five years.
YF Academy
A five-month accelerator to help our grantees scale their impact.
YF Studio
YF’s in-house storytelling engine and content studio focused on narrative change.
What is the YF500?
An initiative to fund and support 500 visionaries in the next 5 years
We see a brighter tomorrow
The YF500 model moves beyond transactional grantmaking. It spreads investment across hundreds of leaders who know what their communities need most.
$50M Goal
Our Impact by
the Numbers
$26M Raised
Toward the $50M YF500 goal to build a national youth wellbeing infrastructure.
868K Young People Reached
Across the four cohorts.
$75M in Funding Requests
Representing the demand for our support.
Foundational Partners
These partners make our work possible through flexible, long-term support that allows us to invest in leaders, scale solutions, and respond to what young people need most.
Challenge Partners
These partners back specific funding challenges aligned with their mission, helping surface and scale solutions in high-need areas for young people.
Become a Funding Partner
Build the future of youth wellbeing with us.
Young Futures brings philanthropists, foundations, and corporate leaders together through the YF500, a collaborative funding vehicle investing in long-term, systems-level change for young people.
Within the YF500, partners can participate as Foundational Funders, supporting core infrastructure, operations, as well as grantmaking, or as Challenge Funders, backing issue-specific funding challenges.
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