· Private foundation
Christian V and Lisa D Young Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k16 grants · $76k
- $10k–50k20 grants · $454k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $61k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PROJECT ACCESS INC | $60,543 |
| OCEAN CONSERVANCY | $45,000 |
| WORLD WILDLIFE FUND | $45,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $42,000 |
| HUMANE WORLD FOR ANIMALS | $30,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $30,000 |
| CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL | $30,000 |
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY | $27,500 |
| WILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK | $25,000 |
| THE CONSERVATION FUND | $21,000 |
| CHOPRA FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| DIAN FOSSEY GORILLA FUND INTERNATIONAL | $18,000 |
| TONY FINAU FOUNDATION | $17,500 |
| FEEDING AMERICA | $16,000 |
| WHALE & DOLPHIN CONSERVATION | $16,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $90k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 41% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +62% since the first grant, against +36% for the ones you funded once.
59 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2024, 35 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $134k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- PAProject Access Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $345k · revenue +186%
- HWHumane World for Animals Inc6× · 2019–2024 · $242k · revenue +31%
WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC8× · 2017–2024 · $219k · revenue +62%
Funded once
- SASCHOLARSHIP AMERICAone grant, 2018 · $20k
- USUtah Sports Commission Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $18k · revenue +87%
- PAPROJECT ACCESS (GALA SPONSORSHIP)one grant, 2020 · $15k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.
Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…
To prevent cruelty to animals, we promote enacting and enforcing good public policies. enacting good laws depends upon electing good lawmakers, and we remind voters which candidates care about and support animal issues.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
Heal utah's mission is to protect utah's environment and its people by promoting clean air, clean energy, and comprehensive solutions to radioactive and toxic waste.
Inspiring communities to save wildlife for future generations.
HUMANE WORLD FOR ANIMALS INTERNATIONAL, FKA HUMANE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL (HSI), works around the globe to promote the human-animal bond, rescue and protect dogs and cats, improve farm animal welfare, protect wildlife, promote animal-free…
We exist to end the abuse of animals raised for food. this mission is executed by persuading companies and institutions to adopt animal welfare policies through negotiation and pressure campaigns, and then holding them accountable to their…
Utah's hogle zoo creates champions for wildlife and is our community's gateway to animals, connecting our visitors with the natural world and engaging them in wildlife conservation action locally and worldwide.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Utah Clean Energy Alliance Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Danna Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
65 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 65 of the 127 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Project Access Inc ↗
- Who funds Humane World for Animals Inc ↗
- Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds TONY FINAU FOUNDATION FKA FINAU YOUTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OCEAN CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds UTAH CLEAN ENERGY ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds THE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds WHALE AND DOLPHIN CONSERVATIONINC ↗
- Who funds WILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds UTAH FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds ALPHA PROJECT FOR THE HOMELESS ↗
- Who funds Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International Inc ↗
- Who funds UTAH PET PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ABILITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds MONARCH SCHOOL PROJECT ↗
- Who funds IDAHO CONSERVATION LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds UTAH SYMPHONY & OPERA ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds WASATCH COMMUNITY GARDENS ↗
- Who funds Mission K9 Rescue Inc ↗
- Who funds THE DANNA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Chopra Foundation ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Sorenson Legacy Foundation · Lawrence & Janet Dee Foundation · George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation · The Community Foundation of Utah · David Kelby Johnson Memorial Foundation · Larry H Miller and Gail Miller Family Foundation · Jeffrey S & Helen H Cardon Foundation · The Ray and Tye Noorda Foundation · Willard L Eccles Charitable Foundation · McCarthey Family Foundation · The Kahlert Foundation Inc · Ihc Health Services Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Christian V and Lisa D Young Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Whale and Dolphin Conservationinc — 3% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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