Funders' Collaborative on Youth Organizing

What Funders' Collaborative on Youth Organizing does

Funders' Collaborative on Youth Organizing (FCYO) is a U.S.-based nonprofit funding intermediary founded in 2000 that works on what it describes as the 'dual fronts' of organizing and philanthropy. Its mission is to advance a strong, interconnected, and well-resourced youth and intergenerational organizing field. FCYO engages directly with organizing groups through flexible grantmaking and capacity-building, and concurrently serves philanthropic partners by coordinating resourcing strategies and providing advisory services. The organization is headquartered in the United States and operates nationally; it is fiscally sponsored by Bend the Arc: A Jewish Partnership for Justice, which provides its legal and administrative infrastructure.

FCYO's core programmatic offerings are cohort-based learning communities — including GenPower Labs, the Youth Organizing for Climate and Racial Equity initiative (YO-CARE 2), Level Up Lab, Organizing to Win Lab, and Praxis for Power Lab — which move participating organizing groups through cycles of assessment, practice experiments, and reflection. In 2023, FCYO debuted the Power to Win Framework, a four-pillar strategic framework (Long-Term Strategic Orientation, Transformative Leadership Development, Organizing for Power, and Assessment and Experimentation) developed over two years with movement partners, that now functions as a field-level 'North Star.' FCYO also operates a Funder Advisory Services line providing landscape analysis, grant-making strategy, evaluation, and research services to foundations, and maintains a public Resource Hub of frameworks, annual reports (2022-2024), and field resources.

FCYO's revenue model is philanthropic rather than commercial. It relies on institutional funder support, individual donations, and contracted advisory services with foundations. There is no disclosed pricing or product revenue; the $36 million mobilized through the Youth Power Pledge (initiated 2020) represents field resources rather than FCYO operating revenue. As of August 2025, Laura McCargar succeeded Mónica Córdova as Executive Director, and FCYO's Board adopted a new 10-year strategic framework in January 2025 affirming the organization's role in social justice philanthropy and movement ecosystems. The organization employs approximately 10 staff.

Name

Funders' Collaborative on Youth Organizing

Legal name

Funders' Collaborative on Youth Organizing

Website

https://fcyo.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2000

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

FCYO is a U.S. nonprofit funding intermediary, founded in 2000, that provides grantmaking, cohort-based capacity-building programs, and advisory services to youth and intergenerational organizing groups and their philanthropic funders, anchored by the Power to Win Framework.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Youth Organizing Philanthropy / Grantmaking Intermediary

NAICS

Grantmaking Foundations (813211), Grantmaking and Giving Services (81321), Social Advocacy Organizations (8133)

SIC

Services-Social Services (8300), Services-Membership Organizations (8600)

akta.pro primary industry

Social Justice & Human Rights Grantmaking Foundations (BPAGAKAN)

Keywords

• Youth organizing grants
• Philanthropy advisory services
• Capacity building programs
• Grantmaking intermediary
• Movement building funding

Headquarters

HQ city

New York

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Institutional Funder Support: FCYO operates as a funding intermediary that relies on support from institutional funders to resource intergenerational power-building organizing groups around the country.
2. Individual Donor Contributions: FCYO accepts donations from individual donors to support their mission of advancing youth and intergenerational organizing.
3. Funder Advisory Services: FCYO provides contract services to funders working at the intersection of youth organizing and social change strategies, including landscape analysis, grant-making strategy development, evaluation, and research services.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

FCYO is a nonprofit funding intermediary that mobilizes grants from institutional and individual donors and redistributes them as flexible funding to youth and intergenerational organizing groups, while running cohort-based capacity-building learning communities (e.g., GenPower Labs, Praxis for Power Lab, Level Up Lab, Organizing to Win Lab, YO-CARE 2) and providing contracted advisory services (landscape analysis, grant-making strategy development, evaluation, research) to foundations and donors.

Product overview

FCYO operates as a funding intermediary providing a coordinated portfolio of programs and services for the youth and intergenerational organizing field. The core offerings include cohort-based learning communities (GenPower Labs, Praxis for Power Lab, Level Up Lab, Organizing to Win Lab, YO-CARE 2), the strategic Power to Win Framework for organizing practice, Funder Advisory Services for philanthropic partners, and a Resource Hub for tools and research. FCYO connects organizing groups with flexible funding, strategic campaign planning tools, and access to a national network of peers, while providing funders with advisory services and coordinated resourcing strategies.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• GenPower Labs

Quantifiable outcome

• Over 100 organizations have experienced FCYO's programs and learned from experimentation, vulnerability, joy, and rigor
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers4 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

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Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Bend the Arc: A Jewish Partnership for JusticecoreOthersFCYO is fiscally sponsored by Bend the Arc: A Jewish Partnership for Justice, which provides organizational infrastructure and administrative support for FCYO's operations as a funding intermediary.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Common Counsel Foundation: Foundation that houses donor collaboratives, pooled funds, and fiscal sponsorship for social justice work. Comparable to FCYO in serving as a funding intermediary that convenes philanthropies around shared movement priorities.
• Akonadi Foundation: Oakland-based foundation funding organizing led by communities of color for racial justice. Comparable to FCYO in functioning as a movement-aligned grantmaking intermediary that supports grassroots organizing groups and coordinates funder strategy.
• Liberty Hill Foundation: Los Angeles-based foundation supporting grassroots organizing for social change through grants, training, and coalition building. Comparable to FCYO in operating as a regional grantmaker and capacity-builder for organizing groups working on racial and economic justice.
• Third Wave Fund: Youth-led social justice fund that mobilizes resources for young people organizing for reproductive justice, gender justice, and racial equity. Closely matches FCYO's youth organizing focus, pooled-grant intermediary model, and movement-aligned grantmaking strategy.
• North Star Fund: NYC-based community foundation that pools resources from donors and re-grants to grassroots organizing groups on social justice issues. Directly comparable to FCYO as a funder intermediary supporting movement-aligned organizing groups through grants and capacity building.
• Hill-Snowdon Foundation: Family foundation focused on social and economic justice through support of organizing and movement-building, particularly youth-led efforts. Comparable to FCYO in targeting youth organizing and operating a multi-program grantmaking strategy with capacity-building components.
• Peace Development Fund: Community foundation that makes grants to grassroots organizing groups working for social, economic, and environmental justice. Comparable to FCYO as a grantmaking intermediary aligned with movement priorities and resourcing small organizing groups.

Broad incumbents

• Ms. Foundation for Women: National social justice foundation funding women's and girls' organizing, including youth-led efforts. Comparable to FCYO in operating multi-program grantmaking and capacity-building for movement infrastructure, though at larger scale and broader thematic scope.
• Funders for LGBTQ Issues: Membership association of foundations and funders advancing LGBTQ rights and intersectional movements. Comparable to FCYO as a funder collaborative that coordinates philanthropic strategy aligned with movement priorities, though focused on a different identity constituency.
• Neighborhood Funders Group: National network of place-based and movement-aligned foundations that coordinates strategy and peer learning. Comparable to FCYO in convening funders around shared field-building priorities, though it operates more as a peer network than as a direct grantmaker.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles10 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

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