How much does Andrew B Young Foundation give?

Andrew B Young Foundation reported 34 grants totaling $177,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 29 and 34 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.

What does Andrew B Young Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (15%), International (15%), Animals (14%).

Who are Andrew B Young Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Nurturing Minds Inc ($100k), Natural Lands Trust Inc ($97k), Settlement Music School of Philadelphia ($64k).

Does Andrew B Young Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 3% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Andrew B Young Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Andrew B Young Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Pfizer Foundation Inc, The William Penn Foundation, The Philadelphia Foundation.

Where is Andrew B Young Foundation based?

Andrew B Young Foundation is based in PA.

Andrew B Young Foundation

Andrew B Young Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Andrew B Young Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$177k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$16k

Largest

01What it funds

0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Environment$173kInternational$171kAnimals$165kHealth$122kArts & Culture$114kFood & Nutrition$64kEducation$60kPhilanthropy$46kOther$0

02FY2025 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k28 grants · $105k
$10k–50k6 grants · $72k

$4,500

Median grant

States reached

$1.2M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST	$16,000
NURTURING MINDS	$14,500
NATURAL LANDS TRUST	$11,000
THE FREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA	$10,500
UNITED SPINAL ASSOCIATION	$10,000
CHRISTOPHER AND DANA REEVES	$10,000
SETTLEMENT MUSIC SCHOOL	$8,500
WORLD LEARNING	$8,000
EARTH WIND FIRE AND WATER	$7,500
GLAD	$7,000
WELLSPRINGKARITAS FOUNDATION	$7,000
PENNSYLVANIA HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY	$7,000
LIFECYCLE WOMAN CARE	$6,500
SENIOR DOG HAVEN & HOSPICE	$6,000
CORNELL LAB OF ORNITHOLOGY	$6,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.1M · 43 repeat orgs$2k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +53% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

43 repeat relationships: 33 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.1M

$2k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+53%

Still filing today

63%

50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

EducationEnvironmentInternationalFood & NutritionArts & CultureCivil RightsOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

NM
NURTURING MINDS INC
7× · 2019–2025 · $100k · revenue +148%
NL
Natural Lands Trust Inc
7× · 2019–2025 · $97k · revenue +42%
SM
SETTLEMENT MUSIC SCHOOL OF PHILADELPHIA
7× · 2019–2025 · $64k · revenue +53%

Funded once

WF
WAGNER FREE INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE
one grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue 0%
MJ
MARY JACOBS MEMORIAL LIBRARY
one grant, 2022 · $500

How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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New York Botanical Garden

The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…

Environment

Harvard Conservation Trust

To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.

Environment

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education

Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment

Wheaton College

Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…

Education

Proprietors of the Social Law Library

To provide research facilities to members and to the judicial, executive, and legislative branches of the massachusetts government.

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The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education

Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education

New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education

United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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Natural History Institute

Natural History Institute is organized to provide leadership and resources for a revitalized practice of natural history that integrates art, science, and humanities to promote the health and well-being of humans and the rest of the…

Arts & Culture

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Free Library of Philadelphia Foundation; the most unlike its peers is The Henry Foundation for Botanical Research. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

30 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 30 of the 46 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

29/30

Grantees still filing

21/30

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$546,450Environment$171,350Education$142,350International$104,850Arts & Culture$68,500Public Benefit$60,000Civil Rights$49,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Pfizer Foundation IncNY14.4× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The William Penn Foundation · The Philadelphia Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Andrew B Young Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Andrew B Young Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

8get no government money at all

6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

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The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

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The endowment market

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The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

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