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Jane S Young Charitable Trust at a glance

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Jane S Young Charitable Trust

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.

$175k
Granted FY2024still arriving
29
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$118k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$192kEnvironment$67kHealth$46kFood & Nutrition$37kPublic Safety & Disaster$27kEducation$26kHousing & Shelter$23kHuman Services$17kOther$0
02FY2024 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k28 grants · $57k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $118k
$1,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$1.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ROTCH JONES DUFF HOUSE & MUSEUM$118,000
CRAFT EMERGENCY RELIEF FUND$9,000
MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON$5,000
COMMUNITY SERVINGS$5,000
BUZZARDS BAY COALITION$5,000
SAMARITAN'S PURSE$3,000
THE MARION INSTITUTE INC$2,500
THE PUTNEY SCHOOL$2,500
SECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF NORTHWEST NC$2,000
HEALTHY WALTHAM$2,000
CHAPLAINS ON THE WAY$2,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN$2,000
PERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND$1,000
DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS$1,000
SEA EDUCATION ASSOCIATION$1,000
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 (FY20–24, $36k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%COMMUNITY SERVINGS: $8k → 16%NO ONE LEFT BEHIND: $1k → 7%COMMUNITY SERVINGS: $8k → 16%COMMUNITY SERVINGS: $8k → 16%COMMUNITY SERVINGS: $8k → 16%COMMUNITY SERVINGS: $5k → 16%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

VT
NY
MA
OH
CT
RI
CA
CO
KY
VA
MD
NC
DC
GA
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$451k · 26 repeat orgs$26k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +68% since the first grant, against -51% for those funded once.

26 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
4

Total granted

$451k
$14k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+68%
-51%

Still filing today

77%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentArts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyReligionOther
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

  • RH
    ROTCH-JONES-DUFF HOUSE AND GARDEN MUSEUM INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $186k · revenue +95%
  • COMMUNITY SERVINGS INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $35k · revenue +72%
  • MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $35k · revenue +47%

Funded once

  • PW
    Project Wheel House Inc
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · 33% of their budget
  • FP
    FIRST PARISH OF WALTHAM
    one grant, 2021 · $3k
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM
    one grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue -51%
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
Conservation Law Foundation Inc

Conservation law foundation, inc. (clf) protects new england's environment for the benefit of all people and future generations. we use the law, science, and markets to create solutions that preserve and restore our natural resources,…

Environment
2
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
3
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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4
The Quebec-Labrador Foundation Inc

The program mission of the quebec-labrador foundation u.s. is defined by a regional component (new england and eastern canada), and an international component, which ties our regional model to a global conservation network. qlf's program…

Philanthropy
5
Massachusetts Outdoor Heritage Foundation Inc Attn Susan Sacco
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6
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
7
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
8
Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group Return

Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.

Health
9
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
10
Ocean Conservancy

Ocean conservancy unites science, people, and policy to protect our ocean, today and for generations to come.

Environment
11
Project Drawdown

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;…

Education
12
Charles River Watershed Association Inc

The organization's mission is to protect, restore, and enhance the charles river and its watershed through science, advocacy, and the law. the organization develops science-based strategies to increase resilience, protect public health,…

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Bedford Light; the most unlike its peers is Project Wheel House Inc. 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

31 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. 31 of the 40 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/31
Grantees still filing
20/31
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ROTCH-JONES-DUFF HOUSE AND GARDEN MUSEUM INC: $186,250 · Arts & CultureROTCH-JONES-DUFF HOUSE AND GARDEN MUSEUM INC+3 more: $4,000 · Arts & CultureGROUNDWORKS COLLABORATIVE INC: $10,000 · OtherGROUNDWORKS COLLABORATI…SOUTH COAST COMMUNITY FUND: $9,000 · OtherSOUTH COAST COMMUNITY F…DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS: $7,500 · OtherDISABLED AMERICAN VETER…PUTNEY SCHOOL INC: $7,500 · OtherPUTNEY SCHOOL INCWALDORF HIGH SCHOOL OF MASS BAY: $6,750 · OtherWALDORF HIGH SCHOOL OF …GOSNOLD COMMUNITY FUND: $6,000 · OtherGOSNOLD COMMUNITY FUNDSEA EDUCATION ASSOCIATION INC: $6,000 · OtherSEA EDUCATION ASSOCIATI…NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH ORGANIZATION: $5,500 · OtherNATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH …Project Wheel House Inc: $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $5,000 · OtherMISS PORTER'S SCHOOL INC: $5,972 · OtherMISS PORTER'S SCHOOL IN…PERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND: $5,000 · OtherTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC: $5,500 · OtherTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUC…+9 more: $16,000 · Other+9 moreMASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $35,000 · EnvironmentMASSACHUSETTS…BUZZARDS BAY COALITION: $19,000 · EnvironmentBUZZARDS BAY …EARTHJUSTICE: $2,500 · Environment+2 more: $2,000 · EnvironmentCOMMUNITY SERVINGS INC: $35,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY …No One Left Behind: $8,500 · Human ServicesNo One Lef…Healthy Waltham Inc: $15,000 · HealthPlanned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc: $10,000 · HealthARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · HealthCRAFT EMERGENCY RELIEF FUND INC: $24,500 · PhilanthropyTHE MARION INSTITUTE INC: $5,000 · PhilanthropyCHAPLAINS ON THE WAY: $13,000 · ReligionSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $10,528 · Religion
Arts & Culture$190,250Other$100,722Environment$58,500Human Services$43,500Health$30,000Philanthropy$29,500Religion$23,528

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetROTCH-JONES-DUFF HOUSE AND GARDEN MUSEUM INC: $186,250 over 5y, 14% of budgetCOMMUNITY SERVINGS INC: $35,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $35,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCRAFT EMERGENCY RELIEF FUND INC: $24,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetBUZZARDS BAY COALITION: $19,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHealthy Waltham Inc: $15,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetCHAPLAINS ON THE WAY: $13,000 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $10,528 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGROUNDWORKS COLLABORATIVE INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPlanned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc: $10,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNo One Left Behind: $8,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetPUTNEY SCHOOL INC: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSEA EDUCATION ASSOCIATION INC: $6,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMISS PORTER'S SCHOOL INC: $5,972 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC: $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetProject Wheel House Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 33% of budgetPERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MARION INSTITUTE INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEARTHJUSTICE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW BEDFORD LIGHT: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEATING WITH THE ECOSYSTEM INC: $2,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHWEST NC INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDisabled American Veterans: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCARLISLE COMMUNICATIONS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNARROWS CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCarlisle Historical Society Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetCarlisle Conservation Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.9% 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.

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.

Boston Foundation IncSouthcoast Community …Fiduciary Charitable …The Pfizer Foundation…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…American Endowment Fo…National Philanthropi…Fidelity Investments …American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Boston Foundation IncMA14.1× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · Southcoast Community Foundation Inc · Fiduciary Charitable Foundation Dba Fiduciary Trust Charitable · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Jane S Young Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jane S Young Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Groundworks Collaborative Inc: 73% of income from government
  • Buzzards Bay Coalition: 37% of income from government
  • Sea Education Association Inc: 12% of income from government
  • Community Servings Inc: 12% of income from government
  • Perkins School for the Blind: 7% of income from government
  • Narrows Center for the Arts Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Planned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Rotch-Jones-Duff House and Garden Museum Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc: 1% of income from government
  • The Marion Institute Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Jane S Young Charitable Trust?

Find your warmest path to Jane S Young Charitable Trust 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 40 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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