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John B & Brownie Young Memorial Fund

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$894k
Granted FY2025still arriving
392
Grants FY2025still arriving
16
States reached
$27k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$5.5MRecreation & Sports$14kReligion$4kOther$0
02FY2025 · 392 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k369 grants · $603k
  • $10k–50k23 grants · $292k
$500
Median grant
16
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$27,036
Individual grant recipient$17,159
Individual grant recipient$15,933
Individual grant recipient$13,301
Individual grant recipient$12,740
Individual grant recipient$12,477
Individual grant recipient$12,264
Individual grant recipient$12,203
Individual grant recipient$12,016
Individual grant recipient$12,004
Individual grant recipient$11,831
Individual grant recipient$11,772
Individual grant recipient$11,703
Individual grant recipient$11,666
Individual grant recipient$11,534
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 96% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HALEY SAMS: $27k → 20%UNIVERSITY OF EVANSVILLE: $15k → 15%SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY: $18k → 12%GEORGETOWN COLLEGE: $21k → 8%ASBURY COLLEGE: $17k → 12%OWENSBORO COMM & TECH COLLEGE: $41k → 13%CENTRE COLLEGE: $16k → 15%TRANSYLVANIA UNIVERSITY: $39k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE: $99k → 15%CAMPBELLSVILLE UNIVERSIT: $21k → 18%WESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY: $140k → 18%MURRAY STATE UNIVERSITY: $94k → 19%LINDSEY WILSON COLLEGE: $14k → 22%EASTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY: $14k → 26%BELMONT UNIVERSITY: $25k → 14%XAVIER UNIVERSITY: $14k → 16%GEORGETOWN COLLEGE: $13k → 8%OWENSBORO COMM & TECH COLLEGE: $31k → 13%ZAMIRA MCGHEE: $12k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE: $83k → 15%WESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY: $82k → 18%MURRAY STATE UNIVERSITY: $74k → 19%BELMONT UNIVERSITY: $19k → 14%OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY: $27k → 15%OWENSBORO COMM & TECH COLLEGE: $16k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE: $72k → 15%WESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY: $50k → 18%MURRAY STATE UNIVERSITY: $58k → 19%BELMONT UNIVERSITY: $17k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN INDIANA: $40k → 15%BELLARMINE UNIVERSITY: $21k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF CUMBERLANDS: $15k → 26%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN INDIANA: $36k → 15%BELLARMINE UNIVERSITY: $13k → 15%BEREA COLLEGE: $15k → 16%TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY: $14k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN INDIANA: $27k → 15%KAMRYN MCMAHON: $13k → 15%BELLARMINE UNIVERSITY: $12k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY: $175k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY: $101k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY: $97k → 15%KENTUCKY WESLEYAN COLLEGE: $159k → 13%KENTUCKY WESLEYAN COLLEGE: $148k → 13%KENTUCKY WESLEYAN COLLEGE: $83k → 13%BRESCIA UNIVERSITY: $70k → 13%BRESCIA UNIVERSITY: $66k → 13%BRESCIA UNIVERSITY: $17k → 13%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

NH
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
IN
OH
PA
CA
UT
CO
MO
KY
WV
VA
MD
DE
AZ
KS
TN
NC
SC
OK
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL
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.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.1M · 472 repeat orgs$1.9M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against +33% for those funded once.

472 repeat relationships: 72 still active in FY2025, 400 since wound down; 313 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

472
941

Total granted

$4.1M
$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+33%

Still filing today

4%
3%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 22% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $696k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time
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

  • KENTUCKY WESLEYAN COLLEGE
    3× · 2017–2019 · $390k · revenue +55%
  • BRESCIA UNIVERSITY INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $152k · revenue +21%
  • BU
    Belmont University
    3× · 2017–2019 · $61k · revenue +86%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $29k
  • OS
    OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2017 · $27k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $22k
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
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
2
Saint Xavier University

Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…

Education
3
Trinity University

Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.

Education
4
Benedictine University

Benedictine University is an inclusive academic community dedicated to teaching and learning, scholarship and service, truth and justice, as inspired by the Catholic intellectual tradition, the social teaching of the Church, and the…

Education
5
LaGrange College

Education - lagrange college challenges the minds and inspires the souls of its students. founded in 1831 and committed to its relationship with the united methodist church and its wesleyan and liberal arts traditions, the college supports…

Education
6
Augustana University Association

Inspired by lutheran scholarly tradition and the liberal arts, augustana provides an education of enduring worth that challenges the intellect, fosters integrity and integrates faith with learning and service in a diverse world.

Education
7
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
8
University of the South

The College of Arts and Sciences is committed to the development of the whole person through a liberal arts education of the highest quality. The School of Theology educates women and men to serve the broad whole of the Episcopal Church in…

Education
9
John Brown University

John brown university (jbu) provides christ-centered education that prepares students to honor god and serve others by developing their intellectual, spiritual, and professional lives. (continued on schedule o)jbu serves traditional…

Education
10
Otterbein University

Otterbein University is an inclusive community dedicated to educating the whole person in the context of humane values. Our mission is to prepare graduates to think deeply and broadly, to engage locally and globally, and to advance their…

Education
11
Loyola University

Loyola University New Orleans, a Jesuit and Catholic institution of higher education, welcomes students of diverse backgrounds and prepares them to lead meaningful lives with and for others; to pursue truth, wisdom, and virtue; and to work…

Education
12
The Catholic University of America

As the national university of the catholic church in the united states, founded and sponsored by the bishops of the country with the approval of the holy see, the catholic university of america is committed to being a comprehensive…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Campbellsville University Inc; the most unlike its peers is United States Power Squadrons Louisville Power Squadron 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

54 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. 54 of the 1,732 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
54/54
Grantees still filing
47/54
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY: $373,186 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKYWESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY: $271,656 · OtherWESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE: $254,688 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLEMURRAY STATE UNIVERSITY: $226,097 · OtherMURRAY STATE UNIVERSITY+174 more: $2,312,256 · Other+174 moreKENTUCKY WESLEYAN COLLEGE: $390,118 · EducationKENTUCKY WESLEYAN COLLEGEBRESCIA UNIVERSITY INC: $151,887 · EducationBRESCIA UNIVERSITY INCBelmont University: $60,733 · EducationBelmont UniversityTRANSYLVANIA UNIVERSITY: $59,941 · EducationTRANSYLVANIA UNIVERSITYBELLARMINE UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED: $45,841 · EducationGEORGETOWN COLLEGE: $37,195 · Education+16 more: $273,527 · Education+16 more
Other$3,437,883Education$1,019,242

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetKENTUCKY WESLEYAN COLLEGE: $390,118 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetBRESCIA UNIVERSITY INC: $151,887 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetBelmont University: $60,733 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTRANSYLVANIA UNIVERSITY: $59,941 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBELLARMINE UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED: $45,841 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGETOWN COLLEGE: $37,195 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF EVANSVILLE: $31,052 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLINDSEY WILSON UNIVERSITY INC: $29,213 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCampbellsville University Inc: $27,647 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetASBURY COLLEGE: $26,352 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBEREA COLLEGE: $22,533 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetXAVIER UNIVERSITY: $20,502 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRE COLLEGE: $17,283 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $13,963 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMIDWAY UNIVERSITY INC FKA MIDWAY COLLEGE: $12,008 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEMBRY-RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY INC: $11,838 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSamford University: $9,951 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $8,773 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDePauw University: $8,296 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFLORIDA SOUTHERN COLLEGE: $8,126 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEE UNIVERSITY: $7,894 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $7,501 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHOMAS MORE UNIVERSITY INC: $5,924 over 1y, 0.0% 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 KENTUCKY WESLEYAN COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds BRESCIA UNIVERSITY INC ↗
  • Who funds Belmont University ↗
  • Who funds TRANSYLVANIA UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds BELLARMINE UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds GEORGETOWN COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF EVANSVILLE ↗
  • Who funds LINDSEY WILSON UNIVERSITY INC ↗
  • Who funds Campbellsville University Inc ↗
  • Who funds ASBURY COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds BEREA COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds XAVIER UNIVERSITY ↗

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.

Council of Independen…The Community Foundat…The Ohio Foundation o…Woldenberg FoundationCharles G Pearl Schol…Flora Hornbeck Schola…National Collegiate A…Enterprise Holdings F…Fidelity FoundationBaird Foundation IncIbm International Fou…Charles Eades Scholar…
Council of Independent CollegesDC30.3× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Council of Independent Colleges · The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · The Ohio Foundation of Independent Colleges · Woldenberg Foundation · Charles G Pearl Scholarship Fund 006961 · Flora Hornbeck Scholarship Tr · National Collegiate Athletic Association · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Fidelity Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Ibm International Foundation · Charles Eades Scholarship Trust Xxx-Xx-Xxxx

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 John B & Brownie Young Memorial Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from John B & Brownie Young Memorial Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 26% of income from government
  • University of Delaware: 25% of income from government
  • Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Inc: 2% of income from government
  • The University of Tampa Incorporated: 0% of income from government
  • Florida Southern College: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.

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 1732 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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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