· Private foundation
Bill B Young Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k15 grants · $51k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $59k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Council Grove Life Center | $32,000 |
| City of Council Grove | $16,667 |
| Historic Preservation Corporation | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,500 |
| Council Grove Area Foundation | $5,200 |
| Morris County Historical Society | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Morris County Care & Share | $4,000 |
| Morris County Hospital | $4,000 |
| First Baptist Church | $4,000 |
| Council Grove Senior Center | $4,000 |
| CASA of the 8th Judicial District Inc | $3,500 |
| Live Well | $2,500 |
| Council Grove Community Arts Council | $2,000 |
| Council Grove Community Theatre | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against -74% for those funded once.
33 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CGCouncil Grove Life Center Inc8× · 2017–2025 · $239k · revenue +20% · 26% of their budget
- BBBuilding Blocks Community Child Care Inc5× · 2017–2025 · $30k · revenue +83%
- COCASA OF THE EIGHTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT INC9× · 2017–2025 · $28k · revenue +26%
Funded once
- MCMORRIS COUNTY HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue -74%
- KSKANSAS STATE HISTORICAL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $25k
- CGCOUNCIL GROVE JUNIORSENIOR HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2021 · $11k
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.
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.
To combat economic and physical deterioration of Plains KS through charitable social welfare activities and economic development projects that encourage job development and population stability.
To become a center for ranching heritage in the Flint Hills.
To provide funding to Scott County Hospital, Scott City, Kansas through independent fundraising activities.
To aid, promote, and develop the Texas County Library System
Support qualified charities and development of public projects in independence, kansas.
Promote the Pittsburg, Kansas business community.
Preserve the history of stephens county oklahoma
Education and cultural enrichment through performing arts
Holt co history
To restore and preserve historical structures and memorabilia
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 65 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds Council Grove Life Center Inc ↗
- Who funds Building Blocks Community Child Care Inc ↗
- Who funds CASA OF THE EIGHTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT INC ↗
- Who funds MORRIS COUNTY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Council Grove Area Foundation ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC PRESERVATION CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Symphony in the Flint Hills Inc ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Bill B Young Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bill B Young Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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