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Robert G Youngs Family Foundation Inc

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.

$24k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 64% of ROBERT G YOUNGS FAMILY FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$2,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$189k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DENISON PEQUOTSEPOS NATURE CENTER$10,000
YELLOW FARMHOUSE EDUC CENTER$7,000
NEW LONDON GRIDIRON CLUB$2,500
ALWAYS HOME$2,000
EASTERN CT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$1,000
GEMMA MORAN FOOD CENTER$1,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

None of your grants could be placed against low income need for this view.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$262k · 14 repeat orgs$57k to everyone else

14 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
12

Total granted

$262k
$53k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+43%

Still filing today

29%
17%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEnvironmentEducationHousing & ShelterArts & CultureOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • DP
    DENISON PEQUOTSEPOS NATURE CENTER
    8× · 2017–2024 · $90k · revenue +34%
  • AH
    ALWAYS HOME INC
    3× · 2018–2024 · $8k · revenue +136%
  • NC
    NOANK COMMUNITY SUPPORT SERVICES INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $500 · revenue +76%

Funded once

  • 8C
    8TH CT VOLUNTEERS COMPANY A
    one grant, 2022 · $24k
  • OC
    OCEAN COMMUNITY YMCA
    one grant, 2018 · $10k
  • NL
    NEW LONDON HOMELESS HOSPITALITY CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +43%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Eastern Connecticut Housing Opportunities Inc

Eastern connecticut housing opportunities, inc. is a non-profit organization organized to provide affordable housing to low-income families of southeastern connecticut.

Housing & Shelter
2
Meals-On-Wheels of New Canaan Inc

Our mission is to ensure that every potential client identified by the town of new canaan or the southwestern connecticut commission on aging, or referred to us by family, friends, medical personnel, or church group will be serviced for as…

Community Improvement
3
Yale Senior Citizens Inc

Providing low-cost meals for the elderly in the surrounding area.

4
Community Kitchen of Northeastern Connecticut Inc

Prepared and served over 25,000 free, healthy meals to reduce food insecurity in Northeastern Connecticut. Our meals are communities of support for our guests, addressing the basic human need for survival, connection, acceptance and…

Food & Nutrition
5
Essex Food Hub Inc

Providing nutritious food to low-to-moderate income families by processing and delivering food grown by local farmers.

Education
6
New London Area Food Pantry

Serving the residents of New London and Southeastern CT by offering a selection of groceries to those who cannot afford to meet their nutritional needs otherwise.

Human Services
7
Hartford Neighborhood Centers

To be an educational, cultural, social and recreational "safe have" of opportunity for the diverse ethnic populations of Greater Hartford

Human Services
8
New London County Historical Societ

To collect, preserve and publish historical and genealogical information pertaining to the early settlement and subsequent history of new london county, especially those towns bordering the thames river.

9
Community Soup Kitchen Incorporated

Provide breakfast and lunch to persons in need in the New Haven, Connecticut area.

Food & Nutrition
10
New Beginnings of Northwest Hills Litchfield County Inc

Provide ongoing housing and supportive services to families and individuals at risk of becoming homeless in torrington, ct and northwest ct.

Unclassified
11
Orange Food 2 Kids
Food & Nutrition
12
The Public Library of New London

The Public Library of New London is a private, not-for-profit institution that serves the needs of the New London community by providing free access to diverse ideas and information through a variety of library materials, services, and…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New London Homeless Hospitality Center and the most unlike its peers is Out Ct. 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

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

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 7 of the 29 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
6/7
Grantees still filing
4/7
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

WILLIAMS SCHOOL — $49,719 · OtherWILLIAMS SCHOOLNEW ENGLAND SCIENCE & SAILING — $47,500 · OtherNEW ENGLAND SCIENCE & SAILING8TH CT VOLUNTEERS COMPANY A — $23,537 · Other8TH CT VOLUNTEERS COMPANY AIndividual grant recipient — $17,700 · OtherIndividual grant recipientHOMELESS HOSPITALITY CENTER — $15,000 · OtherHOMELESS HOSPITALITY CENTERIndividual grant recipient — $10,532 · OtherOCEAN COMMUNITY YMCA — $10,000 · Other+15 more — $31,717 · Other+15 moreDENISON PEQUOTSEPOS NATURE CENTER — $90,000 · EnvironmentDENISON PEQUOTSEPOS NATURE CENT…YELLOW FARMHOUSE EDUCATION CENTER INC — $7,600 · Arts & CultureALWAYS HOME INC — $7,500 · Housing & ShelterNEW LONDON HOMELESS HOSPITALITY CENTER — $5,000 · Human ServicesOUT CT — $1,850 · Human ServicesNOANK COMMUNITY SUPPORT SERVICES INC — $500 · Human ServicesEASTERN CT COMMUNITY GARDENS ASSOC — $1,000 · Education
Other$205,705Environment$90,000Arts & Culture$7,600Housing & Shelter$7,500Human Services$7,350Education$1,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetDENISON PEQUOTSEPOS NATURE CENTER — $90,000 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetYELLOW FARMHOUSE EDUCATION CENTER INC — $7,600 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetALWAYS HOME INC — $7,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetNEW LONDON HOMELESS HOSPITALITY CENTER — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEASTERN CT COMMUNITY GARDENS ASSOC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetNOANK COMMUNITY SUPPORT SERVICES INC — $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds DENISON PEQUOTSEPOS NATURE CENTER
  • Who funds YELLOW FARMHOUSE EDUCATION CENTER INC
  • Who funds ALWAYS HOME INC
  • Who funds NEW LONDON HOMELESS HOSPITALITY CENTER
  • Who funds OUT CT
  • Who funds EASTERN CT COMMUNITY GARDENS ASSOC
  • Who funds NOANK COMMUNITY SUPPORT SERVICES INC

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Chelsea Groton FoundationCT17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Chelsea Groton Foundation · Dime Bank Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Edward and Mary Lord Foundation · Helios Foundation · The Community Foundation of Eastern Connecticut Inc · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Robert G Youngs Family Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 47%
  • Noank Community Support Services Inc100% of income from government
  • New London Homeless Hospitality Center47% of income from government
  • Yellow Farmhouse Education Center Inc5% of income from government
  • Denison Pequotsepos Nature Center0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
1report 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, FY2025

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Robert G Youngs Family Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Robert G Youngs Family 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 29 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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