· Private foundation
George & Fay Young Foundation Inc
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, FY2020 to 2025.
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
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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 (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.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 +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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.8M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BTBIG THOUGHT4× · 2020–2023 · $950k · revenue +35%
- MMMEADOWS MENTAL HEALTH POLICY INSTITUTE FOR TEXAS4× · 2020–2024 · $800k · revenue +242%
- FHFred Hutchinson Cancer Center3× · 2023–2025 · $600k · revenue +9%
Funded once
- OKOPERATION KINDNESSgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $250k · revenue +48%
- PIPARTNERS IN OPPORTUNITY INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $150k · revenue +37% · 42% of their budget
- MFMOSAIC FAMILY SERVICES INCone 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.
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.
The Progress Texas Institute provides research and strategic communications on issues with the ultimate goal of increasing civic engagement.
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
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…
Leadership austin connects and develops leaders to courageously engage and transform our communities.
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…
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…
Glasstire is a website about visual art in Texas. Our mission is to expand the conversation about visual art in Texas.
Progress Texas is a non-profit media organization advocating for progressive ideals and policies in our state.
The mission of the Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council is to drive evidence-based improvement in patient care and health equity throughout the region.
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.
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.…
The foundation's mission is to strengthen and support faith communities by partnering wise investments with purposeful giving.
How this is measured
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.
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 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.
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
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.
How this is measured
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