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Marilyn & William Young Charitable Foundation Inc C/O Sara Hemingway Ex Di

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$450k
Granted FY2025still arriving
52
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$66k
Largest
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$771kHuman Services$598kEducation$407kHousing & Shelter$350kEnvironment$313kPhilanthropy$207kHealth$169kCommunity Improvement$120kOther$0
02FY2025 · 52 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k37 grants · $103k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $164k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $188k
$3,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RIVERPARK CENTER$65,927
BLUEGRASS MUSIC MUSEUM AND HALL OF FAME$62,000
KENTUCKY WESLEYAN COLLEGE$60,000
ALMA RANDOLPH CHARITABLE FOUNDATION$20,000
OWENSBORO DANCE THEATRE$20,000
BRESCIA UNIVERSITY$20,000
OWENSBORO MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND HISTORY$16,500
WENDELL FOSTER CENTER$15,000
KENTUCKY EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION$12,500
ST BENEDICT'S HOMELESS SHELTER$10,000
CROSSROADS$10,000
BOULWARE MISSION$10,000
OWENSBORO FAMILY YMCA$10,000
FRESH START$10,000
KENTUCKY YOUTH ADVOCATES$10,000
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, $60k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%BOULWARE MISSION: $25k → 13%BOULWARE MISSION: $10k → 13%BOULWARE MISSION: $7k → 13%BOULWARE MISSION: $5k → 13%PUZZLE PIECES: $3k → 13%PUZZLE PIECES: $3k → 13%BOULWARE MISSION: $3k → 13%PUZZLE PIECES: $1k → 13%BOULWARE MISSION: $300 → 13%GOODFELLOWS CLUB OF OWENSBORO: $3k → 13%THE EMPOWERMENT ACADEMY: $1k → 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.
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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.8M · 57 repeat orgs$420k to everyone else

57 repeat relationships: 33 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

57
49

Total granted

$2.8M
$362k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
+25%

Still filing today

47%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $58k 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
EducationPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterArts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthOther
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

  • WK
    WESTERN KENTUCKY BOTANICAL GARDENS INC
    4× · 2020–2025 · $313k · revenue +161% · 26% of their budget
  • KENTUCKY WESLEYAN COLLEGE
    4× · 2021–2025 · $260k · revenue +19%
  • RC
    RIVERPARK CENTER INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $202k · revenue +31%

Funded once

  • WK
    WESTERN KENTUCKY BOTYANICAL GARDEN
    one grant, 2023 · $100k
  • BM
    BLUEGRASS MUSIC HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM
    one grant, 2020 · $60k
  • OP
    OWENSBORO PUBLIC SCHOOLS
    one grant, 2022 · $41k
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
Goodwill Industries of Kentucky Inc

Goodwill's mission is to help people with disabilities or other disadvantages achieve and maintain employment to gain a better quality of life.

Employment
2
Ky Access to Justice Commission Inc

To increase access to the courts and high-quality legal representation for people with low and moderate incomes living in kentucky through innovative partnerships with the judiciary, the civil legal aid programs, private bar, law schools,…

Crime & Legal
3
United Way of Central Kentucky Inc

To improve lives by providing support through funding local agenies and performing community growth activities.

Human Services
4
Central Kentucky Community Foundation Inc

To serve as philanthropic connector for donors in the central kentucky region who wish to make their community a better place.

Education
5
Casa of South Central Kentucky Inc

Volunteers in action seeking safety and permanency for our community's youngest victims. casa provides support, advocacy, and intervention for abused, neglected, and dependent children in south central ky's family court system.

Crime & Legal
6
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Kentuckiana Inc

To create and support mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth.

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7
Junior Achievement of Oki Partners

Junior achievement will ensure that every child in the region has a fundamental understanding of the free-enterprise system. junior achievement (ja) helps kids understand the connection between personal responsibility, hard work,…

International
8
Child Watch Counseling and Advocacy Center Inc

To provide families in western kentucky with education, advocacy and treatment that prevents child abuse, encourages family stability, promotes healthy relationships, enhances well-being and cultivates safe, nurturing families.

Crime & Legal
9
IMPACT100 Louisville Inc

A community of women transforming lives through collective giving. impact100 louisville exists to empower women to award large grants that transform lives.

Philanthropy
10
Owensboro Health Inc

Owensboro health, inc. exists to heal the sick and improve the health of the communities we serve.

Health
11
Simon House Inc

The organization's mission is to reduce the extent and consequences of homelessness in franklin and surrounding counties. this is accomplished by providing two low-barrier shelters that accommodate homeless men, women, and children.…

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12
Community Action of Southern Indiana

Casi's mission is to guide and empower families and communities to reach self-sufficiency and improved well-being, by addressing the root causes of poverty.

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Covington Inc; the most unlike its peers is Friends of Sinners. 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

50 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 50 of the 125 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
48/50
Grantees still filing
27/50
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BLUEGRASS MUSIC MUSEUM AND HALL OF FAME: $242,000 · OtherBLUEGRASS MUSIC MUSEUM AND HALL OF FAMEWENDELL FOSTER CENTER: $226,500 · OtherWENDELL FOSTER CENTERST BENEDICT'S HOMELESS SHELTER: $127,000 · OtherST BENEDICT'S HOMELESS SHELTERWESTERN KENTUCKY BOTYANICAL GARDEN: $100,000 · OtherWESTERN KENTUCKY BOTYANICAL GARDENINTERNATIONAL CENTER OF OWENSBORO: $85,000 · OtherFAMILY Y: $83,700 · OtherALMA RANDOLPH CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · OtherALMA RANDOLPH CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC+91 more: $884,411 · Other+91 moreKENTUCKY WESLEYAN COLLEGE: $260,000 · EducationKENTUCKY WE…GIRLS INCORPORATED OF OWENSBORO-DAV COUNTY: $28,574 · EducationGIRLS INCOR…BRESCIA UNIVERSITY INC: $27,000 · EducationBRESCIA UNI…+6 more: $20,250 · Education+6 moreWESTERN KENTUCKY BOTANICAL GARDENS INC: $312,500 · EnvironmentWESTERN KEN…RIVERPARK CENTER INC: $201,627 · Arts & CultureRIVERPARK …OWENSBORO DANCE THEATRE INC: $77,500 · Arts & CultureOWENSBORO …+2 more: $3,500 · Arts & CultureOWENSBORODAVIESS COUNTY REGIONAL DENTAL CLINIC INC: $100,250 · HealthFRIENDS OF SINNERS: $52,700 · Health+1 more: $100 · HealthUNITED WAY OF THE OHIO VALLEY INC: $80,325 · PhilanthropyFRESH START FOR WOMEN INC: $28,800 · PhilanthropyPhilanthropy Southeast Inc: $14,620 · PhilanthropyTHE CENTER FOR NONPROFIT EXCELLENCE: $11,908 · Philanthropy+1 more: $2,000 · PhilanthropyDANIEL PITINO SHELTER INC: $50,400 · Housing & ShelterMY SISTERS KEEPER INCORPORATED: $38,500 · Housing & ShelterCROSSROADS INC: $19,000 · Housing & ShelterGREEN RIVER ASSET BUILDING COALITION INC: $5,000 · Housing & Shelter+1 more: $100 · Housing & Shelter
Other$1,848,611Education$335,824Environment$312,500Arts & Culture$282,627Health$153,050Philanthropy$137,653Housing & Shelter$113,000

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 budgetWESTERN KENTUCKY BOTANICAL GARDENS INC: $312,500 over 4y, 26% of budgetKENTUCKY WESLEYAN COLLEGE: $260,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetRIVERPARK CENTER INC: $201,627 over 6y, 3.3% of budgetOWENSBORODAVIESS COUNTY REGIONAL DENTAL CLINIC INC: $100,250 over 5y, 3.5% of budgetALMA RANDOLPH CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 5y, 46% of budgetOWENSBORO DANCE THEATRE INC: $77,500 over 5y, 5.6% of budgetFRIENDS OF SINNERS: $52,700 over 2y, 6.6% of budgetDANIEL PITINO SHELTER INC: $50,400 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetBOULWARE MISSION INC: $49,800 over 6y, 3.0% of budgetMY SISTERS KEEPER INCORPORATED: $38,500 over 3y, 16% of budgetFRESH START FOR WOMEN INC: $28,800 over 3y, 6.8% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF OWENSBORO-DAV COUNTY: $28,574 over 5y, 3.8% of budgetGREATER OWENSBORO LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE INC: $27,033 over 3y, 12% of budgetBRESCIA UNIVERSITY INC: $27,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetKENTUCKY YOUTH ADVOCATES INC: $25,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF KENTUCKIANA INC: $20,400 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetOWENSBORO AREA SHELTER INFORMATION AND SERVICES INC: $19,450 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetTHEATRE WORKSHOP OF OWENSBORO INC: $17,500 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetPhilanthropy Southeast Inc: $14,620 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSAVING PAWS ANIMAL RESCUE OF KENTUCKY INC: $12,000 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR NONPROFIT EXCELLENCE: $11,908 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetPUZZLE PIECES INC: $6,850 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetKENTUCKY NONPROFIT NETWORK INC: $6,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetCLIFF HAGAN BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetGREEN RIVER ASSET BUILDING COALITION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetOWENSBORO ROTARY CLUB FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 9.0% of budgetGREATER OWENSBORO CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC: $4,300 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBOULE FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE OWENSBORO INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS: $3,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCASA OF THE RIVER REGION: $2,675 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetIMAGINATION LIBRARY OF LOUISVILLE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetJUNIOR LEAGUE OF OWENSBOROINC: $2,500 over 1y, 11% of budgetTREVOR PROJECT INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGOODFELLOWS CLUB OF OWENSBORO KENTUCKY INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOWENSBORO MUSEUM OF FINE ART INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCENTRE COLLEGE: $2,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSimmons College of Kentucky Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJUSTICE IN MOTION INC: $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE EMPOWERMENT ACADEMY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHEATER & ARTS FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY DBA LA JOLLA PLAYHOUSE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTAGES ST LOUIS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF COVINGTON INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL COUNCIL OF LOUISVILLE INC: $100 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 WESTERN KENTUCKY BOTANICAL GARDENS INC ↗
  • Who funds KENTUCKY WESLEYAN COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds RIVERPARK CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds OWENSBORODAVIESS COUNTY REGIONAL DENTAL CLINIC INC ↗
  • Who funds ALMA RANDOLPH CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE OHIO VALLEY INC ↗
  • Who funds OWENSBORO DANCE THEATRE INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF SINNERS ↗
  • Who funds DANIEL PITINO SHELTER INC ↗
  • Who funds BOULWARE MISSION INC ↗
  • Who funds MY SISTERS KEEPER INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds FRESH START FOR WOMEN INC ↗
  • Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF OWENSBORO-DAV COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds GREATER OWENSBORO LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds BRESCIA UNIVERSITY INC ↗
  • Who funds KENTUCKY YOUTH ADVOCATES INC ↗
  • Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF KENTUCKIANA INC ↗
  • Who funds OWENSBORO AREA SHELTER INFORMATION AND SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds CROSSROADS INC ↗
  • Who funds THEATRE WORKSHOP OF OWENSBORO INC ↗
  • Who funds Philanthropy Southeast 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 Community Foundation of Louisville IncKY46.3× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · Owensboro Health Inc · Public Life Foundation of Owensboro · The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc · Lester E Yeager Charitable Trust B · Impact 100 - Owensboro Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc · Lawrence & Augusta Hager Educational Foundation Inc · B J Killian Foundation · United Way of the Ohio Valley Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation Inc

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 Marilyn & William Young Charitable Foundation Inc C/O Sara Hemingway Ex Di funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Marilyn & William Young Charitable Foundation Inc C/O Sara Hemingway Ex Di. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%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
    0get no government money at all
    18report 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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