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Samuel R Young Foundation at a glance

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Samuel R Young Foundation

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.

$136k
Granted FY2024still arriving
16
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0185% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Health$129kHuman Services$93kAnimals$67kYouth Development$40kFood & Nutrition$33kInternational$27kCrime & Legal$18kEducation$15kOther$0
02FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $26k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $110k
$10,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$2.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SLEEPING IN HEAVENLY PEACE$10,000
MAUI FOOD BANK$10,000
LA'AKEA VILLAGE$10,000
HODIA DIABETES YOUTH PROGRAMS$10,000
JDRF INTERNATIONAL$10,000
VOLUSIAFLAGLER FAMILY YMCA ROBERT L VOGES MEMORIAL FUND$10,000
TUNNELS TO TOWERS FOUNDATION$10,000
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES$10,000
RISING STARS THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER$10,000
ST LUKES HEALTH FOUNDATION$10,000
JAE FOUNDATION$10,000
SAMARITAN'S PURSE$6,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
CITY OF JEROME- POLICE DEPARTMENT$5,000
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 (FY19–24, $57k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 53% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%HEROES AND HORSES: $4k → 10%GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $3k → 8%LA'AKEA VILLAGE: $10k → 9%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $2k → 14%FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS: $5k → 8%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $2k → 14%FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC: $2k → 8%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $2k → 14%IDAHO YOUTH RANCH: $2k → 8%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $1k → 14%RISING STARS THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER: $10k → 11%RISING STARS THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER: $5k → 11%Rising Stars Therapeutic Riding Center: $5k → 11%RISING STARS THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER: $3k → 11%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

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MT
NY
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DC
HI
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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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$426k · 32 repeat orgs$98k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.

32 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
19

Total granted

$426k
$47k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+12%

Still filing today

66%
79%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $51k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
AnimalsHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentHealthEducationFood & NutritionOther
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

  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF MAGIC VALLEY
    5× · 2019–2023 · $26k · revenue +74%
  • MAUI FOOD BANK INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $25k · revenue +138%
  • RS
    RISING STARS THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $23k · revenue +32%

Funded once

  • TW
    THE WINCHENDON SCHOOL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +31%
  • HA
    HEROES AND HORSES INC
    one grant, 2020 · $4k · revenue -4%
  • LF
    LA'AKEA FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $4k
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
Puppies Behind Bars Inc

Puppies behind bars trains incarcerated individuals to raise service dogs for wounded war veterans and first responders, facility dogs for police departments, and explosive-detecton canines for law enforcement.

Human Services
2
Patriot Paws Service Dogs

To train and provide service dogs of the highest quality at no cost to disabled american veterans and others with mobile disabilities in order to help restore their physical and emotional independence.

Human Services
3
Hero Dogs Inc

Hero Dogs improves the quality of life of our nations heroes and enhances the services of community organizations by placing assistance dogs with customized training & lifetime support.

Human Services
4
Santa Barbara Humane Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

Santa barbara humane operates two campuses located in santa barbara and santa maria providing care for community-owned and homeless animals. both campuses offer affordable high quality veterinary care, compassionate behavior training…

Animals
5
Operational K9 Medical Team of Wisconsin
Animals
6
United States War Dogs Association Inc

The mission of the corporation is to provide support for the war dogs of the united states military. the organization provides care packages to war dogs and their handlers serving overseas. the organization also provides support for…

Animals
7
Animal Wellness Action

To prevent cruelty to animals, we promote enacting and enforcing good public policies. enacting good laws depends upon electing good lawmakers, and we remind voters which candidates care about and support animal issues.

Human Services
8
Michigan Humane Society

To improve and save lives through compassionate care, community engagement and advocacy for animals.

Animals
9
Leashes of Valor

Our organization's mission is to raise awareness for and provide physical aid and support to disabled us military veterans. our program covers a crucial gap in the industry-a veteran operated organization, that can assist veterans with…

Public Benefit
10
Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc

Dogs Inc mission is to transform lives by creating and nurturing extraordinary partnerships between people and dogs.

Human Services
11
World Vets

To improve the health & well-being of animals through veterinary aid, response, training, research & local capacity building worldwide. We provide services to companion animals, horses, street dogs, livestock and marine animals including…

Animals
12
Pets for Vets Inc

Pets for Vets enriches the lives of veterans by creating a life-changing Super Bond with expertly selected and trained shelter or rescue pets. It provides ongoing expert support to ensure a reciprocal and thriving partnership at no cost to…

Public Benefit
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feeding Pets of the Homeless Aka Pets of the Homeless; the most unlike its peers is Diving With a Purpose and Development Group 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

41 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. 41 of the 58 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
41/41
Grantees still filing
29/41
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $25,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $21,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSLEEPING IN HEAVENLY PEACE: $18,000 · OtherSLEEPING IN HEAVENLY PEACEVOLUSIAFLAGLER FAMILY YMCA ROBERT L VOGES MEMORIAL FUND: $15,000 · OtherVOLUSIAFLAGLER FAMILY YMCA ROBERT L VOGES MEMORIAL FU…THE SUN CLUB INC: $15,000 · OtherTHE SUN CLUB INCJDRF INTERNATIONAL: $15,000 · OtherJDRF INTERNATIONALST LUKES CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $13,350 · OtherVision Charities Inc: $13,000 · OtherRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES: $10,000 · OtherJDRF: $10,000 · OtherVALLEY HOUSE: $9,500 · OtherSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherPAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS: $11,000 · OtherIDAHO SHERIFFS' ASSOCIATION INC: $12,000 · Other+16 more: $55,500 · Other+16 moreFEEDING PETS OF THE HOMELESS AKA PETS OF THE HOMELESS: $20,500 · AnimalsFEEDING PETS O…VESTED INTEREST IN K9S INC: $15,000 · AnimalsVESTED INTERES…MAGICATS INC: $9,500 · AnimalsMAGICATS INCBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $6,000 · AnimalsBEST FRIENDS A…PILOTS TO THE RESCUE INC: $5,001 · AnimalsPILOTS TO THE …Idaho Humane Society Inc: $3,000 · AnimalsUNEGA MOUNTAIN DOG RESCUE: $3,000 · Animals+3 more: $5,000 · Animals+3 moreBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF MAGIC VALLEY: $26,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIR…Idaho Diabetes Youth Program: $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentIdaho Diabet…Florida Sheriffs Youth Ranches Inc: $12,000 · Youth DevelopmentFlorida Sher…RISING STARS THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER INC: $23,000 · Human ServicesRISING STARS…LA'AKEA VILLAGE: $10,000 · Human ServicesLA'AKEA VILL…FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC: $7,200 · Human ServicesFREEDOM SERV…WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $7,000 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARR…HEROES AND HORSES INC: $4,350 · Human ServicesHEROES AND H…GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC: $3,000 · Human ServicesIDAHO YOUTH RANCH INC: $2,000 · Human ServicesJae Foundation Inc: $23,000 · PhilanthropyHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 · PhilanthropyADOPT A PLATOON SOLDIER SUPPORT EFFORT INC: $8,000 · PhilanthropyMAUI FOOD BANK INC: $25,000 · Food & NutritionIDAHO FOODBANK WAREHOUSE: $8,000 · Food & NutritionVisions Charities Inc: $14,000 · HealthSt Luke's Health Foundation Ltd: $10,000 · HealthHUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION: $1,000 · Health
Other$253,350Animals$67,001Youth Development$58,000Human Services$56,550Philanthropy$41,000Food & Nutrition$33,000Health$25,000

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 budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF MAGIC VALLEY: $26,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetMAUI FOOD BANK INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetRISING STARS THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER INC: $23,000 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetJae Foundation Inc: $23,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetFEEDING PETS OF THE HOMELESS AKA PETS OF THE HOMELESS: $20,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetIdaho Diabetes Youth Program: $20,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetTHE SUN CLUB INC: $15,000 over 3y, 9.7% of budgetVESTED INTEREST IN K9S INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetVisions Charities Inc: $14,000 over 2y, 7.7% of budgetFlorida Sheriffs Youth Ranches Inc: $12,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetIDAHO SHERIFFS' ASSOCIATION INC: $12,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetPAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS: $11,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSt Luke's Health Foundation Ltd: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLA'AKEA VILLAGE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMAGICATS INC: $9,500 over 3y, 8.8% of budgetIDAHO FOODBANK WAREHOUSE: $8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetADOPT A PLATOON SOLDIER SUPPORT EFFORT INC: $8,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC: $7,200 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $7,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPILOTS TO THE RESCUE INC: $5,001 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE WINCHENDON SCHOOL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEROES AND HORSES INC: $4,350 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIdaho Humane Society Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICA'S VETDOGS THE VETERANS K-9 CORPS INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDIVING WITH A PURPOSE AND DEVELOPMENT GROUP INC: $3,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCHILDRENS MUSEUM OF THE MAGIC VALLEY INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetUNEGA MOUNTAIN DOG RESCUE: $3,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIDEAWEE INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIDAHO YOUTH RANCH INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION HOMEFRONT INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEQUINE ADVOCATES INCORPORATED: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION: $1,000 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.

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.

Lamb Weston Charitabl…St Luke's Health Syst…Idaho Community Found…Martens Family Founda…Renaissance Charitabl…Network for GoodJpmorgan Chase Founda…The Bank of America C…The Pfizer Foundation…American Endowment Fo…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…
Lamb Weston Charitable FoundationID19× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Lamb Weston Charitable Foundation · St Luke's Health System Ltd · Idaho Community Foundation Inc · Martens Family Foundation Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust

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 Samuel R Young Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Samuel R Young Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get 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 · 0–15%
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 Samuel R Young Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Samuel R Young Foundation 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 58 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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