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George & Fay Young Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$5.3M
Granted FY2025still arriving
49
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$313k
Largest
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$6.7MHuman Services$5.0MHealth$4.6MArts & Culture$1.8MCommunity Improvement$1.5MPhilanthropy$1.5MInternational$858kEmployment$600kOther$0
02FY2025 · 49 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $150k
  • $50k–250k33 grants · $3.7M
  • $250k+5 grants · $1.5M
$100,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$97M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HOPE COTTAGE PREGNANCY AND ADOPTION CENTER$312,500
EQUEST$300,000
MERCY SHIPS$300,000
CHILD POVERTY ACTION LAB (CPAL)$300,000
TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY$250,000
BACHMAN LAKE TOGETHER$200,000
FOR OAK CLIFF$200,000
TRINITY PARK CONSERVANCY$200,000
JUBILEE PARK AND COMMUNITY CENTER$200,000
FOREST FORWARD$200,000
FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER CENTER$200,000
UNITED WAY (READ UP)$175,000
FAMILY GATEWAY$150,000
THE TEXAS TRIBUNE$150,000
THE FAMILY PLACE$150,000
02The need
03

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 (FY20–25, $2.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 91% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%METHODIST CHILDREN'S HOME: $25k → 12%METHODIST CHILDREN'S HOME: $25k → 12%METHODIST CHILDREN'S HOME: $50k → 16%METHODIST CHILDREN'S HOME: $25k → 12%METHODIST CHILDREN'S HOME: $25k → 16%FAMILY PROMISE OF COLLIN COUNTY: $25k → 5%PLANNED PARENTHOOD ADVOCATES OF TEXAS: $125k → 10%METHODIST CHILDREN'S HOME: $25k → 16%PLANNED PARENTHOOD ADVOCATES OF TEXAS: $100k → 10%ENVISION DALLAS LIGHTHOUSE FOUNDATION: $150k → 14%JUBILEE PARK AND COMMUNITY CENTER: $200k → 14%JUBILEE PARK & COMMUNITY CENTER: $125k → 14%JUBILEE PARK AND COMMUNITY CENTER: $100k → 14%DALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $10k → 14%JUBILEE PARK AND COMMUNITY CENTER: $50k → 14%HOPE COTTAGE: $100k → 14%HOPE COTTAGE: $75k → 14%HOPE COTTAGE: $75k → 14%FOR OAK CLIFF: $200k → 14%FOR OAK CLIFF: $100k → 14%FOR OAK CLIFF: $100k → 14%FOR OAK CLIFF: $50k → 14%THE FAMILY PLACE: $150k → 14%THE CONCILIO: $100k → 14%THE CONCILIO: $100k → 14%THE FAMILY PLACE: $80k → 14%THE FAMILY PLACE: $75k → 14%BACHMAN LAKE TOGETHER: $200k → 14%BACHMAN LAKE TOGETHER: $155k → 14%BACHMAN LAKE TOGETHER: $100k → 14%BACHMAN LAKE TOGETHER: $75k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
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

WA
IL
NY
CT
CA
UT
CO
VA
MD
NM
TN
DC
TX
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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$19M · 64 repeat orgs$6.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +16% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

64 repeat relationships: 30 still active in FY2025, 34 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

64
69

Total granted

$19M
$4.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
0%

Still filing today

69%
77%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.8M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyOther
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

  • BT
    BIG THOUGHT
    4× · 2020–2023 · $950k · revenue +35%
  • MM
    MEADOWS MENTAL HEALTH POLICY INSTITUTE FOR TEXAS
    4× · 2020–2024 · $800k · revenue +242%
  • FH
    Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
    3× · 2023–2025 · $600k · revenue +9%

Funded once

  • OK
    OPERATION KINDNESSgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $250k · revenue +48%
  • PI
    PARTNERS IN OPPORTUNITY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $150k · revenue +37% · 42% of their budget
  • MF
    MOSAIC FAMILY SERVICES INC
    one grant, 2022 · $150k · revenue +19%
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.

1
Progress Texas Institute

The Progress Texas Institute provides research and strategic communications on issues with the ultimate goal of increasing civic engagement.

Civil Rights
2
Dallas International University

As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.

Education
3
Center for Public Policy Priorities

At the Every Texan, we believe in a Texas that offers everyone the chance to compete and succeed in life. We envision a Texas where everyone is healthy, well educated, and financially secure. We want the best Texas, a proud state that sets…

Public Benefit
4
Leadership Austin

Leadership austin connects and develops leaders to courageously engage and transform our communities.

Youth Development
5
Raise Texas

RAISE Texas advances equitable policies and programs that foster financial security and economic mobility for low- and moderate-income Texans. We equip, innovate and advocate to reduce disparities, remove barriers and build opportunities…

Human Services
6
FIRST3YEARS

First3years nurtures early relational and mental health of infants and toddlers in texas. working in deep collaboration with caregivers, parents, and professionals statewide, we cultivate strong early childhood systems, educate our…

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7
Glasstire

Glasstire is a website about visual art in Texas. Our mission is to expand the conversation about visual art in Texas.

Arts & Culture
8
Progress Texas

Progress Texas is a non-profit media organization advocating for progressive ideals and policies in our state.

Civil Rights
9
Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council

The mission of the Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council is to drive evidence-based improvement in patient care and health equity throughout the region.

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10
Collaborative for Children

The mission of Collaborative for Children is to meaningfully improve the quality of early childhood education and care for Greater Houston's children through those most influential in their lives.

Human Services
11
Downtown Dallas Inc

Downtown Dallas, Inc. (DDI), is the champion of a clean and safe Downtown and of the economic development and vibrancy of this community of diverse, unique neighborhoods. DDI: Mobilizes and amplifies the services of public agencies.…

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12
Episcopal Foundation of Dallas

The foundation's mission is to strengthen and support faith communities by partnering wise investments with purposeful giving.

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Communities Foundation of Texas Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Lullaby House. 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

117 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 117 of the 155 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
115/117
Grantees still filing
63/117
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HOPE COTTAGE PREGNANCY AND ADOPTION CENTER: $1,375,000 · OtherHOPE COTTAGE PREGNANCY AND ADOPTION CENTERCHILD POVERTY ACTION LAB (CPAL): $1,150,000 · OtherCHILD POVERTY ACTION LAB (CPAL)UNIVERSE CREATIVE: $628,246 · OtherCHILD POVERTY ACTION LAB: $475,000 · OtherSTAGEN: $450,000 · Other+80 more: $8,774,468 · Other+80 moreUNITED TO LEARN: $400,000 · EducationUNITED TO LEARNCOMMIT2DALLAS: $375,000 · EducationCOMMIT2DALLASAUSTIN COLLEGE: $300,000 · EducationAUSTIN COLLEGETrinity University: $300,000 · EducationTrinity Universi…St Edwards University: $300,000 · EducationSt Edwards Unive…Schreiner University: $285,000 · EducationSchreiner Univer…TEXAS TRIBUNE INC: $250,000 · EducationTEXAS TRIBUNE IN…TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY: $250,000 · EducationTEXAS CHRISTIAN …EDUCATIONAL FIRST STEPS: $250,000 · EducationEDUCATIONAL FIRS…BEACON HILL PREPARATORY INSTITUTE: $225,000 · EducationBEACON HILL PREP…CITY TEACHING ALLIANCE INC: $150,000 · Education+11 more: $625,500 · Education+11 moreBACHMAN LAKE TOGETHER: $530,300 · Human ServicesBACHMAN LAKE …JUBILEE PARK & COMMUNITY CENTER CORPORATION: $475,000 · Human ServicesJUBILEE PARK …FOR OAK CLIFF: $450,000 · Human ServicesFOR OAK CLIFFThe Family Place: $305,000 · Human ServicesThe Family Pl…HOPE COTTAGE INC: $250,000 · Human ServicesHOPE COTTAGE …PLANNED PARENTHOOD ADVOCATES OF TEXAS: $225,000 · Human ServicesPLANNED PAREN…POETIC: $212,500 · Human ServicesPOETICTHE CONCILIO: $200,000 · Human ServicesTHE CONCILIOMETHODIST CHILDREN'S HOME: $175,000 · Human ServicesMETHODIST CHI…ENVISION DALLAS LIGHTHOUSE FOUNDATION: $150,000 · Human Services+3 more: $110,000 · Human ServicesMEADOWS MENTAL HEALTH POLICY INSTITUTE FOR TEXAS: $800,000 · HealthMEADOWS MENT…Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center: $600,000 · HealthFred Hutchin…PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER TEXAS INC: $495,000 · HealthPLANNED PARE…PARKLAND FOUNDATION: $250,000 · HealthPARKLAND FOU…MOSAIC FAMILY SERVICES INC: $150,000 · HealthFOUNDATION FOR THE CALLIER CENTER AND COMMUNICATION DISORDERS: $100,000 · HealthHEADFIRST MENTAL HEALTH INITIATIVE: $100,000 · HealthSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL CHARITABLE PHARMACY OF NORTH TEXAS: $100,000 · Health+6 more: $239,700 · Health+6 moreBIG THOUGHT: $950,000 · Arts & CultureDeep Vellum Publishing Inc: $150,000 · Arts & CultureDallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum: $100,000 · Arts & CultureTECO THEATRICAL PRODUCTIONS INC: $100,000 · Arts & CultureArts Council Wichita Falls Area Inc: $80,000 · Arts & CulturePEROT MUSEUM OF NATURE & SCIENCE: $75,000 · Arts & CultureNORTH TEXAS PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC: $75,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $55,000 · Arts & CultureFOREST FORWARD: $400,000 · Community ImprovementTrinity Park Conservancy: $350,000 · Community ImprovementJUNIOR LEAGUE OF DALLAS INC: $250,000 · Community ImprovementSOUTHERN GATEWAY PUBLIC GREEN FOUNDATION: $100,000 · Community Improvement+1 more: $10,000 · Community ImprovementREADERS 2 LEADERS: $425,000 · Youth DevelopmentMomentous Institute: $345,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOUTS OF NORTHEAST TEXAS: $100,000 · Youth DevelopmentThe Lullaby House: $100,000 · Youth DevelopmentCAMP FIRE FIRST TEXAS: $75,000 · Youth DevelopmentGirls Embracing Mothers Inc: $50,000 · Youth Development
Other$12,852,714Education$3,710,500Human Services$3,082,800Health$2,834,700Arts & Culture$1,585,000Community Improvement$1,110,000Youth Development$1,095,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBIG THOUGHT: $950,000 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetMEADOWS MENTAL HEALTH POLICY INSTITUTE FOR TEXAS: $800,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetFred Hutchinson Cancer Center: $600,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBACHMAN LAKE TOGETHER: $530,300 over 4y, 16% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER TEXAS INC: $495,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetCHILD POVERTY ACTION LAB: $475,000 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetJUBILEE PARK & COMMUNITY CENTER CORPORATION: $475,000 over 4y, 3.6% of budgetFOR OAK CLIFF: $450,000 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetREADERS 2 LEADERS: $425,000 over 6y, 6.8% of budgetUNITED TO LEARN: $400,000 over 5y, 4.0% of budgetFOREST FORWARD: $400,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetCOMMIT2DALLAS: $375,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTrinity Park Conservancy: $350,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetMomentous Institute: $345,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetFRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER: $325,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Family Place: $305,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCOMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC: $305,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMercy Ships International: $300,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAUSTIN COLLEGE: $300,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTrinity University: $300,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSt Edwards University: $300,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSchreiner University: $285,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetOPERATION KINDNESS: $250,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetTEXAS TRIBUNE INC: $250,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetTEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY: $250,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARKLAND FOUNDATION: $250,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetHOPE COTTAGE INC: $250,000 over 3y, 6.1% of budgetJUNIOR LEAGUE OF DALLAS INC: $250,000 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetEDUCATIONAL FIRST STEPS: $250,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD ADVOCATES OF TEXAS: $225,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetBEACON HILL PREPARATORY INSTITUTE: $225,000 over 4y, 3.4% of budgetFAMILY GATEWAY INC: $225,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetPOETIC: $212,500 over 3y, 10% of budgetTHE CONCILIO: $200,000 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetMETHODIST CHILDREN'S HOME: $175,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetPHILANTHROPY SOUTHWEST: $166,440 over 6y, 3.8% of budgetCITY TEACHING ALLIANCE INC: $150,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPARTNERS IN OPPORTUNITY INC: $150,000 over 1y, 42% of budgetMOSAIC FAMILY SERVICES INC: $150,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetENVISION DALLAS LIGHTHOUSE FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetDeep Vellum Publishing Inc: $150,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetFAMILY COMPASS: $150,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetTexas Women's Foundation: $150,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetSPARK: $150,000 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY INC: $125,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetGoodwill Industries of Dallas Inc: $125,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetANNA ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 54% of budgetDallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum: $100,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budget
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 BIG THOUGHT ↗
  • Who funds MEADOWS MENTAL HEALTH POLICY INSTITUTE FOR TEXAS ↗
  • Who funds Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center ↗
  • Who funds BACHMAN LAKE TOGETHER ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER TEXAS INC ↗
  • Who funds CHILD POVERTY ACTION LAB ↗
  • Who funds JUBILEE PARK & COMMUNITY CENTER CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds FOR OAK CLIFF ↗
  • Who funds READERS 2 LEADERS ↗
  • Who funds UNITED TO LEARN ↗
  • Who funds FOREST FORWARD ↗
  • Who funds COMMIT2DALLAS ↗
  • Who funds Trinity Park Conservancy ↗
  • Who funds Momentous Institute ↗
  • Who funds FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER ↗
  • Who funds The Family Place ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC ↗
  • Who funds Mercy Ships International ↗
  • Who funds AUSTIN COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds Trinity University ↗
  • Who funds St Edwards University ↗
  • Who funds EQUEST ↗
  • Who funds Schreiner University ↗
  • Who funds OPERATION KINDNESS ↗
  • Who funds TEXAS TRIBUNE INC ↗
  • Who funds TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds PARKLAND FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HOPE COTTAGE INC ↗
  • Who funds JUNIOR LEAGUE OF DALLAS 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.

The Addy FoundationTX69.2× affinity31 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Addy Foundation · The Dallas Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Texas Women's Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc · Meadows Foundation Inc · Texas Instruments Foundation · Hoblitzelle Foundation · The Rees-Jones Foundation · Hillcrest Foundation · W P & Bulah Luse Foundation · The Hoglund Foundation

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 George & Fay Young Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from George & Fay Young Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    39report 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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    Find your warmest path to George & Fay Young Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 155 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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