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.

The Beard-Young Family Foundation

The Beard-Young Family Foundation at a glance

· 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 FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$250k

Largest

01What it funds

0196% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$877kScience & Tech$390kCrime & Legal$350kPublic Benefit$200kReligion$188kHuman Services$185kInternational$121kHousing & Shelter$101kOther$0

02FY2025 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k15 grants · $35k
$10k–50k9 grants · $175k
$50k–250k2 grants · $200k
$250k+1 grant · $250k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$3.4M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
HUDSON ALPHA FOUNDATION	$250,000
RANDOLPH SCHOOL	$100,000
AUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION	$100,000
VILLAGE OF PROMISE	$35,000
HUNTSVILLE SPORTS COMMISSION	$30,000
NATIONAL CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER INC	$25,000
UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA SHELBY INSTITUTE	$25,000
MANNA HOUSE	$20,000
UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA HUNTSVILLE FOUNDATION	$10,000
ST MARY OF THE VISITATION CATHOLIC CHURCH	$10,000
Individual grant recipient	$10,000
CHURCH OF THE NATIVITY	$10,000
HUNTSVILLE MUSEUM OF ART	$5,000
HUNTSVILLE LIBRARY FOUNDATION	$5,000
WELLSTONE INC	$5,000

02The need

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, $177k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$2.4M · 26 repeat orgs$310k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

26 repeat relationships: 24 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.4M

$255k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%

Still filing today

77%

42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationEnvironmentHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsHealthOther

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

AU
AUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
6× · 2020–2025 · $600k · revenue +80%
NC
NATIONAL CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER INC
6× · 2020–2025 · $350k · revenue +128%
VO
VILLAGE OF PROMISE INCORPORATED
6× · 2020–2025 · $165k · revenue +18%

Funded once

CO
CITY OF ORANGE BEACH AL
one grant, 2022 · $200k
TL
THE LAND TRUST OF NORTH ALABAMA INC
one grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue 0%
CF
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER HUNTSVILLE KEYS TO OPPORTUNITY
one grant, 2020 · $10k

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.

The Land Trust for Tennessee Inc

To conserve the unique character of tennessee's natural and historic landscapes and sites for future generations.

Environment

University of Alabama Health Services Foundation Pc

Coordinate and deliver patient care in a group practice setting within the academic environment of the university of alabama at birmingham.

Health

The Children's Hospital of Alabama

The mission of Children's of Alabama is to provide the finest pediatric health services to all children in an environment that fosters excellence in research and medical education. Children's will be an advocate for all children and work…

Health

Huntsville Emergency Medical Services Inc

To provide emergency medical services to the general public and contract ambulance services.

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Alabama Association of Resource Conservation and Development Councils

Coordinate rc&d activity in alabama

Environment

The Alabama Center for Law and Civic Education

The mission of ACLCE is to prepare youth to become active, engaged, and informed participants in a democratic society.

—

Alabama Forest Land Trust Inc

The Organization focuses on providing services via conservation easements, administration of various grants, educational outreach and planning.

—

Uab Educational Foundation

To support the university of alabama at birmingham in its scientific and educational mission, including managing and disbursing funds, acquiring real property, and providing operational flexibility.

Education

University of Virginia Foundation

To provide administrative services to university of virginia (university) entities, university associated organizations, or other entities involved in activities which support the university. to engage in matters pertaining to real…

Education

Alabama a&M University Foundation

The Alabama A&M University Foundation was established to receive, hold, invest, manage, use, and administer property of all kinds, whether given absolutely or in trust, for the benefit of Alabama A&M University and its educational,…

—

Lake Champlain Land Trust Inc

The mission of the lake champlain land trust is to save the scenic beauty, natural communities, and recreational amenities of lake champlain by permanently preserving significant islands, shoreline areas, and natural communities in the…

Environment

Alabama Alliance Network

The alabama alliance netowrk works to strengthen and enhance alabama's civic society through research, education, and grantmaking

Public Benefit

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of Greater Huntsville; the most unlike its peers is The Huntsville Hospital Foundationinc. 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

30 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. 30 of the 42 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

28/30

Grantees still filing

19/30

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Education$1,151,500Other$1,075,500Human Services$177,000Philanthropy$170,000Housing & Shelter$101,000Arts & Culture$65,100Religion$55,000

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

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.

Community Foundation of Greater HuntsvilleAL40.2× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 The Beard-Young Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Beard-Young Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

9report 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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