How much does Blue Yak Foundation give?

Blue Yak Foundation reported 45 grants totaling $691,883 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 40 and 43 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2025.

What does Blue Yak Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2026, its largest causes are Education (18%), Health (16%), Environment (14%).

Who are Blue Yak Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2026: LCH Health and Community Services ($416k), Kennett Consolidated School Distric ($413k), Stroud Water Research Center ($311k).

Does Blue Yak Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2025, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Blue Yak 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 Blue Yak Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Chester County Community Foundation, Applestone Foundation-Ima, The Dansko Foundation Inc.

Where is Blue Yak Foundation based?

Blue Yak Foundation is based in PA.

Blue Yak Foundation

Blue Yak Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Blue Yak Foundation

Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$692k

Granted FY2026still arriving

Grants FY2026still arriving

States reached

$57k

Largest

01What it funds

0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$691kHealth$625kEnvironment$538kAnimals$347kHuman Services$338kRecreation & Sports$227kArts & Culture$220kYouth Development$207kOther$0

02FY2026 · 45 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2026

Under $10k15 grants · $58k
$10k–50k26 grants · $426k
$50k–250k4 grants · $207k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$8.6M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
KENNETT CONSOLIDATED SCHOOL DISTRIC	$57,236
LCH HEALTH AND COMMUNITY SERVICES	$50,000
NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION	$50,000
CHELSEA'S FUND	$50,000
STROUD WATER RESEARCH CENTER	$35,000
KENNETT AREA COMMUNITY SERVICE	$30,000
GARAGE COMMUNITY & YOUTH CENTER	$30,000
SOW GOOD NOW	$30,000
BUTTERNUT VALLEY ALLIANCE	$30,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD	$25,000
BRANDYWINE CONSERVANCY & MUSEUM	$25,000
YMCA OF GREATER BRANDYWINE	$18,200
BLACKWOOD EDUCATIONAL LAND INST	$15,000
WILLOWDALE STEEPLECHASE	$15,000
NEW ERA FOUNDATION	$15,000

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 (FY20–26, $807k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-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.

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 7% of Blue Yak Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 55% of the giving stays in PA; by stated purpose, 51%.

Blue Yak Foundationlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address · 6.1% directed abroad (not shown)

How this is measured

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$4.1M · 61 repeat orgs$294k to everyone else

61 repeat relationships: 40 still active in FY2026, 21 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$4.1M

$245k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%

+51%

Still filing today

74%

62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $49k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesEnvironmentEducationCivil RightsHealthAnimalsOther

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

LH
LCH Health and Community Services
7× · 2020–2026 · $416k · revenue +43%
SW
STROUD WATER RESEARCH CENTER
7× · 2020–2026 · $311k · revenue +79%
NW
NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION
6× · 2020–2026 · $238k · revenue +90%

Funded once

KENNETT LIBRARYgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +51%
EI
EFD INTERNATIONAL INC
one grant, 2020 · $50k
IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2020 · $30k

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.

World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment

Women First Inc

Women first invests in grassroots initiatives driven by women in developing economies that sustainably advance their lives.

International

National Forest Foundation

The national forest foundation (nff), chartered by congress, turns america's love of nature into meaningful action for 193-million acre national forest system through on the ground program work and grant making activities, and accepts and…

Recreation & Sports

One Earth Philanthropy

One Earth connects thinkers, doers, activists, and knowledge holders from around the world to solve humanity's greatest ecological challenges--together. Our belief is simple: The solutions to the climate crisis already exist. By connecting…

Environment

Akashinga Inc

Deliver ecological stability and long-term protection of large-scale wilderness by supporting and empowering local communities.

Animals

Namati Inc

Namati, inc. (namati) is dedicated to putting the law in people's hands. we strive to build a just world, in which every one of us can take part in the decisions and demand accountability from the institutions that affect our lives.…

Crime & Legal

Western Resource Advocates

Western Resource Advocates (WRA) is a regional nonprofit advocacy organization fighting climate change and its impacts to sustain the environment, economy, and people of the West. As the region's go-to experts for more than three decades,…

Crime & Legal

Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International

National Fish and Wildlife Foundation

To sustain, restore, and enhance the nation's fish, wildlife, plants, and habitats.

Animals

International Center for Research On Women

The international center for research for women (icrw) is a global research institute, with a mission to advance rights and opportunities for women, girls, and structurally excluded populations with actionable evidence and solutions.

International

United States Endowment for Forestry

The endowment works collaboratively with partners in the public and private sectors to advance systemic, transformative, and sustainable change for the health and vitality of the nation's working forests and forest reliant communities.

Environment

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

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sierra Club Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Primitive Hall Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

59 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. 59 of the 79 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)

58/59

Grantees still filing

44/59

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$2,093,556Human Services$925,167Animals$326,847Science & Tech$310,759Civil Rights$305,655Education$284,000Arts & Culture$250,500

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.

Chester County Community FoundationPA23.6× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Chester County Community Foundation · Applestone Foundation-Ima · The Dansko Foundation Inc · Cabot-Kjellerup Foundation · The Philadelphia Foundation · Claneil Foundation Inc · Wsfs Cares Foundation · Connelly Foundation · Fjc · The Roemer Foundation · Forney Family Foundation Inc · Ccres

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 Blue Yak Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Blue Yak Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

4get no government money at all

10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%

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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home