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The Craig Young Family Foundation Young
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k13 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $106k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| INSPIRING SERVICE | $106,000 |
| DEVELOP FOR GOOD | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $5,000 |
| IMPACT 100 | $2,200 |
| KINDERVELT | $1,200 |
| SEVEN HILLS SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| QUEEN CITY BOOK BANK | $1,000 |
| CINCINNATI ZOO | $600 |
| THE HILLSIDE TRUST | $500 |
| CHILDREN'S THEATER OF CINCINNATI | $350 |
| CRAYONS TO COMPUTERS | $250 |
| BIOMIMICRY | $125 |
| BEAR LEAGUE | $60 |
| MISC | $52 |
| LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY | $50 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
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.
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.
24 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- ISINSPIRING SERVICE7× · 2017–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +463% · 94% of their budget
- DFDEVELOP FOR GOOD2× · 2023–2024 · $26k · revenue +95%
- GBGIVE BACK CINCINNATI2× · 2018–2020 · $25k · revenue +189%
Funded once
- JCJUST CAPITALone grant, 2021 · $20k
- SOSEC OF WORLD SUMMIT OF NOBEL PEACEone grant, 2017 · $16k
- PProKidsgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +210%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To empower Cincinnati entrepreneurs to launch bold, scalable startups; and we work to improve the odds of those startups growing into transformational companies.
Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra (CCO) creates intimate, transformative experiences that connect the musically curious.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
To build broad based private/public partnerships supporting the conservation and enhancement of our City's parks and greenspaces.
To grow the vibrancy and economic prosperity of the cincinnati region.
To develop and promote economic development, talent initiatives and the unique offerings in the cincinnati region.
To empower and educate people to value, preserve and save greater cincinnati's historic buildings, communities, landscapes and stories.
To lead and equip ohio philanthropy to be effective partners for change in our communities.
The cincinnati usa convention & visitors bureau is an aggressive sales, marketing, and service organization. our primary responsibility is to positively impact the region's area economy through convention, tradeshow and visitor…
The mission of the cincinnati observatory is to maintain the integrity and heritage of an historic 19th century observatory and to educate, engage, and inspire our community about astronomy and science.
To operate red bike, the cincinnati region's bike share system, providing a transportation option, that increases mobility and adds to the vitality of the region.
Through the power of art, we contribute to a more vibrant cincinnati by inspiring its people and connecting our communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Crayons and Beyond Inc and the most unlike its peers is New York University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 25 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
28 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 28 of the 54 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 INSPIRING SERVICE ↗
- Who funds DEVELOP FOR GOOD ↗
- Who funds GIVE BACK CINCINNATI ↗
- Who funds IMPACT 100 INC ↗
- Who funds ProKids ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds INTERACT FOR CHANGE ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI MUSEUM CENTER ↗
- Who funds LITERACY NETWORK OF GREATER CINCINNATI DBA QUEEN CITY BOOK BANK ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds CRAYONS AND BEYOND INC ↗
- Who funds THE SEVEN HILLS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds COLORADO NONPROFIT ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Tri-State Trails dba CROWN Cincinnati ↗
- Who funds Inter Parish Ministry Inc ↗
- Who funds New York University ↗
- Who funds THE HILLSIDE TRUST ↗
- Who funds Anthony Munoz Foundation ↗
- Who funds The Children's Theatre of Cincinnati ↗
- Who funds OVER-THE-RHINE MUSEUM ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation · Elsa M Heisel Sule Charitable Trust 2005 · Duke Energy Foundation · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · The Thomas J Emery Memorial · Tql Foundation Inc · Millstone Fund · John a Schroth Family Char Tr · The Scripps Howard Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Interact for Change
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 The Craig Young Family Foundation Young 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.
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