Kansas · Private foundation
Bill B Young Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $110k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 18
- Grants FY2025
- 15
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $4,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $32,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 13 to 21
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.2M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations Bill B Young Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 17 | $104k | 35% |
| FY2024 | 15 | $100k | 33% |
| FY2023 | 14 | $104k | 14% |
| FY2022 | 13 | $111k | 23% |
| FY2021 | 13 | $103k | 46% |
| FY2020 | 14 | $106k | 29% |
| FY2019 | 18 | $111k | 50% |
| FY2018 | 21 | $110k | 29% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Council Grove Life Center Inc | $239,000 | 8 | 26% |
| Building Blocks Community Child Care Inc | $29,600 | 5 | 7% |
| Casa of the Eighth Judicial District Inc | $27,500 | 9 | 3% |
| Morris County Hospital Foundation | $25,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Morris County Hospital | $14,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Historic Preservation Corporation | $14,000 | 2 | 13% |
| Morris County Historical Society Incorporated | $13,800 | 6 | n/a |
| Symphony in the Flint Hills Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Morris County Care and Share Inc | $7,000 | 2 | n/a |
| The Morris County Youth Rodeo Association | $6,500 | 2 | n/a |
Show all 13 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Council Grove Life Center Inc | $239,000 | 8 | 26% |
| Building Blocks Community Child Care Inc | $29,600 | 5 | 7% |
| Casa of the Eighth Judicial District Inc | $27,500 | 9 | 3% |
| Morris County Hospital Foundation | $25,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Morris County Hospital | $14,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Historic Preservation Corporation | $14,000 | 2 | 13% |
| Morris County Historical Society Incorporated | $13,800 | 6 | n/a |
| Symphony in the Flint Hills Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Morris County Care and Share Inc | $7,000 | 2 | n/a |
| The Morris County Youth Rodeo Association | $6,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Council Grove Community Center Inc | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| First Baptist Church | $4,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Council GroveMorris County Chamber of Commerce & Tourism | $1,200 | 1 | 1% |
Plus 51 recipients with no EIN on record ($552k), not named here.
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.
Open a dossier: Oscar & Ina Nystrom Foundation · John E Trembly Foundation · Arthur M & Ethel L Hylton Trust · Council Grove Area Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Bill B Young Foundation
- How much does Bill B Young Foundation give?
- Bill B Young Foundation reported 18 grants totaling $109,598 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 21 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Bill B Young Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (48%), Arts & Culture (13%), Environment (7%).
- Who are Bill B Young Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Council Grove Life Center Inc ($239k), Building Blocks Community Child Care Inc ($30k), Casa of the Eighth Judicial District Inc ($28k).
- Does Bill B Young Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Bill B Young Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Bill B Young Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Oscar & Ina Nystrom Foundation, John E Trembly Foundation, Arthur M & Ethel L Hylton Trust.
- Where is Bill B Young Foundation based?
- Bill B Young Foundation is based in KS.
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