Final Third Foundation
Invest in Youth.
Multiply Impact.
Final Third Foundation uses soccer as a platform to unite, educate, and enrich communities. We create educational, wellness, mentorship, and soccer opportunities for young people, especially youth from underserved and under-resourced communities.
Your investment helps ensure that cost, location, and circumstance do not determine a young person's ability to play, learn, and grow.
Who We Serve
Creating opportunity where barriers exist.
Final Third Foundation prioritizes young people and families who face barriers to educational, recreational, and wellness opportunities. We work directly with schools, families, community organizations, educators, healthcare partners, coaches, and local leaders to meet youth where they are.
- Students attending Title I and under-resourced schools
- Refugee, immigrant, and New American families
- Youth from historically underserved neighborhoods
- Families experiencing financial barriers
- Students needing additional academic, social-emotional, or wellness support
- Youth without consistent access to organized soccer, enrichment, or mentorship
Our Approach
More than soccer.
Soccer brings young people into our programs. Education, mentorship, health, access, and opportunity create the lasting impact.
Soccer & Literacy
Soccer-based learning experiences that promote reading development, confidence, engagement, and a positive relationship with literacy.
Health & Nutrition
Practical health and nutrition education supported by access to calorically and nutritionally dense foods.
Environmental Education
Hands-on learning through gardening, sustainability, biodiversity, environmental awareness, and exploration of the natural world.
Soccer Access
Scholarships and subsidized programs that remove financial barriers to leagues, developmental programs, camps, and other soccer opportunities.
Mentorship & Leadership
Trusted coaches and educators who help youth build confidence, teamwork, communication, responsibility, and leadership.
What Your Support Makes Possible
Every investment creates opportunity.
Contributions help provide scholarships, trained coaches and educators, curriculum, equipment, healthy foods, mentorship, and sustained programming in schools and communities.
Provide Access
$1,000
Help remove participation barriers
Supports approximately four scholarships for youth who may otherwise be unable to participate in a year-round league or school program.
Provide Mentorship
$2,500
Support coaching and leadership
Supports coaching, mentorship, and program leadership for a seasonal program serving youth in a school or community setting.
Fund a Full Program
$5,000
Bring programming to a school
Supports a full Soccer & Literacy, Health & Nutrition, or Sprouts school program, including trained staff, curriculum, materials, and program delivery.
Sustain a School
$10,000
Support programming throughout the year
Provides extended or year-round school programming, creating sustained academic, wellness, soccer, and mentorship opportunities for students.
Expand Community Impact
$25,000+
Reach multiple schools and communities
Supports year-round impact across multiple schools, neighborhoods, or program areas while expanding access to education, wellness, soccer, and mentorship.
Youth served and youth interaction figures are estimates based on Final Third Foundation's current program models. Actual reach may vary by program length, delivery model, participant needs, school partnership, and community setting.
Accountability and Learning
We measure more than participation.
Final Third Foundation tracks program reach, consistency, engagement, and student development. Specific evaluation tools vary by program, age group, school partnership, and length of engagement.
Our Latest Impact Report
See the full story behind the numbers.
Our 2024–25 Impact Report provides a deeper look at the young people, schools, communities, team members, and partners behind Final Third Foundation’s work.
2024–25 Impact Report
Progress made possible through community investment.
Explore our programs, community reach, organizational growth, partnerships, stories, and the ways soccer continues to create pathways for education, wellness, mentorship, and belonging.
- Program reach and community engagement
- Soccer, literacy, wellness, and environmental education
- Stories from young people, schools, and partners
- Organizational growth and future priorities
Your Investment at Work
Support reaches every part of the experience.
Flexible investment allows Final Third Foundation to respond to the needs of young people, schools, families, and community partners while maintaining high-quality programming.
Why Final Third Foundation
Community-rooted. Education-driven. Built for access.
Community-Based
Programs are designed and delivered with schools, families, community organizations, healthcare partners, and local leaders.
Education-Driven
Educational programming is developed and overseen by experienced educators and program leaders.
Designed for Access
We intentionally reduce financial, geographic, and social barriers that prevent young people from participating.
Focused on Long-Term Impact
Repeated interactions build lasting relationships with trusted coaches, educators, mentors, and community partners.
Your investment can help a young person discover confidence as a reader, build a relationship with a trusted mentor, develop healthier habits, experience being part of a team, or participate in organized soccer for the first time.
For corporate partnerships, foundation support, sponsorships, major gifts, or other opportunities to invest in our work, please contact:
Benjamin Levey Co-Founder and Executive Director, Final Third Foundation ben@finalthirdfoundation.org