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The Forever Young Foundation at a glance

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The Forever Young Foundation

Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$86k
Granted FY2026still arriving
10
Grants FY2026still arriving
4
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Religion$103kHealth$56kYouth Development$52kEducation$51kRecreation & Sports$34kHuman Services$13kFood & Nutrition$4kPhilanthropy$2kOther$0
02FY2026 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2026

  • Under $10k6 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $66k
$8,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$807k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAVEN$25,000
EMANUEL LUTHERAN CHURCH$21,000
ANDOVER HEBRON MARLBOROUGH YOUTH$10,000
MANCHESTER SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION$10,000
21 CENTURY TOLLAND FUND$8,000
GAYLORD HOSPITAL$6,000
Individual grant recipient$2,500
ST BALDRICK'S FOUNDATION$2,000
MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER$1,000
Individual grant recipient$500
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY23–26, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ANDOVER HEBRON MARLBOROUGH YOUTH: $10k → 11%ANDOVER HEBRON MARLBOROUGH YOUTH SERVICES: $10k → 11%ANDOVER HEBRON MARLBOROUGH YOUTH: $10k → 11%ANDOVER HEBRON MARLBOROUGH YOUTH: $10k → 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

NY
CT
RI
CA
VA
MD
AR
TN
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$387k · 15 repeat orgs$14k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.

15 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2026, 7 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
10

Total granted

$387k
$13k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+13%

Still filing today

67%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25’26
HealthPhilanthropyEducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • GH
    Gaylord Hospital INC
    6× · 2021–2026 · $46k · revenue +13%
  • AH
    ANDOVER HEBRON MARLBOROUGH YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INC
    4× · 2023–2026 · $40k · revenue +2%
  • 2C
    21ST CENTURY TOLLAND FUND INC
    5× · 2022–2026 · $40k · revenue +90%

Funded once

  • MC
    MANCHESTER COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue +206%
  • MP
    MERIDEN POLICE BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2022 · $2k
  • RM
    RYAN MARTIN FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue -25%
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
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
2
Hampshire College Trustees

The mission of hampshire college is to foster a lifelong passion for learning, inquiry, and ethical citizenship that inspires students to contribute to knowledge, justice, and positive change in the world and, by doing so, to transform…

Education
3
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
4
Seton Hall University

Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education

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5
Simmons University

Simmons university is a community of higher learning that unites passion with purpose.

Education
6
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
7
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
8
Rhode Island College Foundation

To encourage and receive private and public support to enhance and expand rhode island college's continued tradition of educational excellence. the foundation provides support for scholarships, faculty research grants, capital…

Education
9
Mcphs University

Mcphs university prepares students for careers in health care through teaching, scholarship, research, professional service and community engagement.

Education
10
Hilbert College

Hilbert college is an independent institution of higher learning that embraces its catholic franciscan heritage and values. students from diverse backgrounds are educated in liberal arts and professional programs to become informed…

Education
11
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
12
Dana-Farber Children's Hospital Cancer Care Inc

To oversee, coordinate and support the Pediatric Oncology Programs at Boston Children's Hospital and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Baldrick's Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Ryan Martin Foundation 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

16 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. 16 of the 27 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
12/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

EMANUEL LUTHERAN CHURCH: $124,000 · OtherEMANUEL LUTHERAN CHURCHAHM YOUTH SERVICES: $20,000 · OtherAHM YOUTH SERVICESIndividual grant recipient: $15,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMANCHESTER COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $7,500 · Other+10 more: $13,775 · Other+10 moreUniversity of New Haven: $35,000 · EducationUniversity of New Hav…ST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY NEW YORK: $21,000 · EducationST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY …MANCHESTER SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · EducationMANCHESTER SCHOLARSHI…Gaylord Hospital INC: $45,500 · HealthGaylord Hospita…CREATIVE LIVING COMMUNITY OF CONNECTICUT INC: $8,000 · HealthCREATIVE LIVING…+2 more: $2,000 · HealthANDOVER HEBRON MARLBOROUGH YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INC: $40,000 · Human ServicesANDOVER HEB…21ST CENTURY TOLLAND FUND INC: $39,900 · Youth Development21ST CENTUR…ST BALDRICK'S FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 · PhilanthropyRYAN MARTIN FOUNDATION INC: $1,500 · PhilanthropyHebron Lions Charities Inc: $1,000 · PhilanthropyMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION: $1,000 · Philanthropy
Other$180,275Education$76,000Health$55,500Human Services$40,000Youth Development$39,900Philanthropy$9,500

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 budgetGaylord Hospital INC: $45,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetANDOVER HEBRON MARLBOROUGH YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INC: $40,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budget21ST CENTURY TOLLAND FUND INC: $39,900 over 5y, 15% of budgetUniversity of New Haven: $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY NEW YORK: $21,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCREATIVE LIVING COMMUNITY OF CONNECTICUT INC: $8,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetST BALDRICK'S FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMANCHESTER COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHEBRON INTERFAITH HUMAN SERVICES INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetRYAN MARTIN FOUNDATION INC: $1,500 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetIMPACT 100 NEWPORT COUNTY: $1,100 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHebron Lions Charities Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $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.

Hartford Foundation f…Aetna Foundation IncNewalliance Foundatio…The Pfizer Foundation…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Hartford Foundation for Public GivingCT21.6× affinity8 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Hartford Foundation for Public Giving · Aetna Foundation Inc · Newalliance Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • Gaylord Hospital Inc: 6% of income from government
  • University of New Haven: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
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.

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 27 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 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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