Alabama · Private foundation
The Beard-Young Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $660k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 27
- Grants FY2025
- 25
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 8%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $250,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 22 to 31
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.4M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 8% of the organizations The Beard-Young Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 26 | $657k | 8% |
| FY2024 | 25 | $318k | 8% |
| FY2023 | 23 | $280k | 4% |
| FY2022 | 22 | $575k | 9% |
| FY2021 | 23 | $423k | 9% |
| FY2020 | 31 | $476k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Auburn University Foundation | $600,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Hudsonalpha Foundation | $390,000 | 5 | 1% |
| National Children's Advocacy Center Inc | $350,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Village of Promise Incorporated | $165,000 | 6 | 4% |
| Randolph School | $127,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Huntsville Dream Center Inc | $120,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Lincoln Village Preservation Corporation | $101,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Episcopal Church of the Nativity | $75,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Museum Board of the City of Huntsville | $65,100 | 5 | 1% |
| University of Alabama Huntsville Foundation | $60,000 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 29 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($388k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Beard-Young Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Greater Huntsville · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · The Jane K Lowe Charitable Foundation · John a Jurenko Et Al Foundation · The Propst Foundation · Wallace E Kirkpatrick Family Foundation · Alpha Foundation · Parker Griffith Family Foundation · The I3 Cares Foundation · Aerojet Rocketdyne Foundation · Lanier Family Foundation · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company
How this is measured
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About The Beard-Young Family Foundation
- How much does The Beard-Young Family Foundation give?
- The Beard-Young Family Foundation reported 27 grants totaling $659,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 22 and 31 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The Beard-Young Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (31%), Science & Tech (14%), Crime & Legal (13%).
- Who are The Beard-Young Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Auburn University Foundation ($600k), Hudsonalpha Foundation ($390k), National Children's Advocacy Center Inc ($350k).
- Does The Beard-Young Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Beard-Young Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Beard-Young Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of Greater Huntsville, The Daniel Foundation of Alabama, The Jane K Lowe Charitable Foundation.
- Where is The Beard-Young Family Foundation based?
- The Beard-Young Family Foundation is based in AL.
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