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The YF500

A systems-level investment in the infrastructure young people need to thrive

We’re committing $50 million to support 500 nonprofit leaders over five years.

Director of Development
Abby Binder
Civics Unplugged
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Director of Strategic Partnerships and Community Outreach
Jacques Louis
Center for Parent and Teen Communication at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
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Executive Director
Leah Clapman
PBS News Student Reporting Labs
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CEO & Co-Founder
Josh Thompson
Civics Unplugged
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Product Lead
Darryl Hutchinson
Joy Education
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Head of Responsible AI and Digital Wellbeing Strategy
Mariel Emanuel
NoSo Connection Collective
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Lead Digital Producer
Rawan Elbaba
PBS News Student Reporting Labs
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Chief Executive Officer
Alex LeeNatali
Health Connected
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CEO and Co-Founder
Tracy Foster
Screen Sanity
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Program Lead
Amulya Panakam
Girl Security
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Executive Director
Diana Chao
Letters to Strangers
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AISES PK-12 Program Officer
Cheyenne Skye Branscum
Advancing Indigenous Science and Engineering Society (AISES)
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Chief Operating Officer
Julie Chelovich Perconte
Urban Initiatives
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Education Administrator
Daniel Merin
The School District of Philadelphia - Office of School Climate and Culture
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Rameen Sajjad
Founder & Executive Director
NyRee Clayton-Taylor
HipHop N2 Learning (HHN2L)
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Alex Edgar
Andrew Brennen
Founder
Jennifer Chiou
CodeSpeak Labs
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Alexis Williams
Chief Program Officer
Alise Dixon
Boys & Girls Club of Greater Detroit
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Founder and CEO
Lauren Buitta
Girl Security
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Margaret Garcia
Managing Director
Randy Depew
KQED
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Pratika Katiyar
Founder & President
Emily Bell McCormick
The Policy Project
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Senior Director of Implementation and Partnership
Marcus Bratton
Colorado Education Initiative
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Director, Technolochic@s
Astrid Viveros
Televisa Foundation Inc.
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Policy Implementation & Grants Manager
Lindsay Butrum
The Policy Project
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Founder
Tony Weaver
Weird Enough Productions
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Founder and CEO
Demetrius Lancaster
Joy Education
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Co-founder
Anahita Dalmia
Agents of Influence
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Nora Sun
Executive Director
Domenico "Dom" Ruggerio
We Are Family
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Chief of Research and Development
Emily Love
Colorado Education Initiative
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Alyssa Goldberg
Chief Learning Officer
Charlotte Dungan
Mark Cuban Foundation
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Ava Smithing
Lennon Torres
Alice Lassman
Anika Dugal
Tara Mandrekar
Executive Director
Luke Wall
Only7Seconds
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Lead Director of Learning
Andy Neilsen
Urban Initiatives
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Director, Division of Library Development
Dawn La Valle
Connecticut State Library
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Co-Founder and Executive Director
Dr. Jennifer Chace
The Source School
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Ramiro Hernandez
Chief Program Officer
Amanda Slavin
Learning Economy Foundation
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Fund Development Director
Melissa Dunning
Code Girls United
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Co-founder
Alex Owens
Be Loud Studios
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Managing Director
Sam Lee
Screen Sanity
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Executive Director
Michelle Parker
KQED
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Co-founder & Executive Director
Jake Stika
Next Gen Men
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Founder & Executive Director
Valerie Grison-Alsop
Give Us The Floor
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Sarah Gardner
Program Manager
Samira Kamal
Cyber Collective
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Founder
Larissa "Larz" May
#HalfTheStory
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Dan-Mircea Mirea
Oleksandr Sharlai
Founding Director
Dr. Lynn E. Fiellin
play2PREVENT Lab
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Founder & Executive Director
Beth Rosenberg
Tech Unlimited
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Dr. Alfiee Breland-Noble
Chief of Staff
Samantha Ng
Letters to Strangers
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Administration and Communications Specialist
Suzanne Kiss
Connecticut State Library
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Katherine Myers
Oliver Huang
Founder & CEO
Maddie Freeman
NoSo Connection Collective
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Founder & CEO
Trisha Prabhu
ReThink Citizens
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Maddox Guerilla
Research Engineer
Dr. Kathryn Youngblood
Debris Tracker Junior (University of Georgia)
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Apuroopa Kavikondala
Davida Padi
Jennifer Siebel Newsom
Arielle Galinsky
Assistant Professor
Dr. Erin Truesdell
Skyscraper Games (Entrepreneurial Game Studio at Drexel University)
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Beck Tench
Ariana Soto
Founder
Michelle Culver
The Rithm Project
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Executive Director
Carolyn Gan
California Partners Project
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Co-founder & CEO
Samin Bhan
Lookupp
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Director of Research, Translation, and Dissemination
Andrew Pool
Center for Parent and Teen Communication at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
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Founder & Executive Director
Juliana Lozano
Despierta
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Chief Executive Officer
Tazin Khan
Cyber Collective
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Co-founder & COO
Atiksh Bhan
Lookupp
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Joon Baek
Chief Operations Officer
Kat Eves
Give Us The Floor
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Director of Programs
Kimberly Tsai
Challenge Success
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Co-founder
Niobe Way
agapi
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Founder and Executive Director
Neha Shukla
Innovation For Everyone
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School Partnership Coach
Brandon Wiley
Challenge Success
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Former Co-Chair
Arielle Geismar
Design It For Us
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Interim Superintendent
Pat Ross
Holmes Consolidated School District
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Dr. Claudia-Santi Fernandes
Founder & Director
Regisha “Reggie” Rijkaard
Pause4Peace
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Executive Director, Televisa Foundation
Alejandro Villanueva
Televisa Foundation Inc.
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Jay'Shun Matthews
Co-Chair
Zamaan Qureshi
Design It For Us
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Co-founder
Diana Turner
Be Loud Studios
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Founder & President
Lewis Bernstein
Sesame 3G
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Managing Director of Programs
Tesia Zientek
Advancing Indigenous Science and Engineering Society (AISES)
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Supporting leaders shaping a healthier digital future

The YF500 is our five-year commitment to support 500 leaders helping young people thrive as they grow up in a digital world.

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By 2030, we will back 500 visionaries with the capital and support needed to reach millions of young people and families, strengthening youth agency and expanding access to better tools and resources.

Scaling the most promising youth-serving

nonprofits into a powerful nationwide network

The YF500 model moves beyond transactional grantmaking by combining direct funding, capacity building and community.

Through multi-year investment, leadership development, national amplification and cross-cohort collaboration, YF500 forms the backbone of a new national infrastructure for youth wellbeing—one that is community-rooted, data-informed and shaped by the lived experiences of young people.

The YF500 is a collaborative funding vehicle with support from our partners:

Featured Grant Recipients

Be Loud Studios
Amplifying youth confidence through radio and digital media production.
Be Loud helps kids turn screens into tools for self-expression and courageous collaboration in New Orleans, helping youth find their voice and use it powerfully through storytelling, podcasting, and media production.
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Civics Unplugged
Cultivating the Future of Civic Innovation.
Civics Unplugged is an intergenerationally-led organization that equips young people with the training, funding, and community they need to become civic innovators.
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GiveThx
Improving student mental health by ensuring every student knows they belong, one thank you at a time.
GiveThx is a digital program that strengthens student and educator wellbeing and social-emotional skills through gratitude.
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Tech Unlimited
Diverse Minds. Unlimited Futures.
Tech Unlimited (TU) is a non-profit education organization that uses technology tools, computer science thinking, and social-emotional learning to ignite unlimited futures for neurodiverse students in need.
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We Are Family
An affirming space for LGBTQ+ youth and allies
We Are Family is South Carolina's oldest nonprofit that provides life-affirming and life-saving programs for LGBTQ+ young people that have a lasting and measurable impact, with a focus on those who are BIPOC and/or low-income.
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Become a YF500 PARTNER

A Philanthropic Index Fund

for Youth Wellbeing

The YF500 pools capital to support a broad portfolio of leaders and solutions shaping the future of youth wellbeing.

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YF Academy

Going Beyond Funding

YF Academy is how the YF500 turns capital into lasting impact. Through cohort-based learning, peer connection and mentor support, we help nonprofit leaders strengthen their organizations and scale what’s working.

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For YF500 partners, the Academy ensures that investments are paired with the leadership, infrastructure and network needed to build durable national impact.

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