How much does The Jim and Shirley Young Family Foundation give?

The Jim and Shirley Young Family Foundation reported 18 grants totaling $905,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 21 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does The Jim and Shirley Young Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (56%), Health (16%), Arts & Culture (5%).

Who are The Jim and Shirley Young Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: University of Nebraska Foundation ($3.4M), Pancreatic Cancer Action Network Inc ($425k), Angels Among US ($270k).

Does The Jim and Shirley Young Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Jim and Shirley 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 Jim and Shirley Young Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Lozier Foundation, Suzanne & Walter Scott Foundation, The Hawks Foundation.

Where is The Jim and Shirley Young Family Foundation based?

The Jim and Shirley Young Family Foundation is based in NE.

The Jim and Shirley Young Family Foundation

The Jim and Shirley Young Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Jim and Shirley 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.

$905k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$575k

Largest

01What it funds

0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$2.9MHealth$848kArts & Culture$240kYouth Development$240kHousing & Shelter$190kCommunity Improvement$180kAnimals$130kHuman Services$130kOther$0

02FY2025 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

$10k–50k16 grants · $255k
$50k–250k1 grant · $75k
$250k+1 grant · $575k

$15,000

Median grant

States reached

$17M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION	$575,000
ANGELS AMONG US	$75,000
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY HOPE LODGE	$25,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE MIDLANDS	$25,000
PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK	$25,000
FOSTER HEART HOPE	$25,000
FOODBANK FOR THE HEARTLAND	$20,000
TEAMMATES	$15,000
ABIDE NETWORK INC	$15,000
SIENA FRANCIS HOUSE	$15,000
CHRISTIAN OUTREACH PROGRAM - ELKHORN	$15,000
OPEN DOOR MISSION	$15,000
THE SALVATION ARMY	$10,000
HOSPICE HOUSE	$10,000
OMAHA ZOO FOUNDATION	$10,000

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 (FY17–25, $170k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$5.7M · 22 repeat orgs$403k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +24% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

22 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$5.7M

$318k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%

Still filing today

95%

33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $85k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthEducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentAnimalsOther

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

UO
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION
9× · 2017–2025 · $3.4M · revenue +70%
PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $425k · revenue +24%
AA
ANGELS AMONG US
9× · 2017–2025 · $270k · revenue +315%

Funded once

IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2020 · $75k
AH
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION
one grant, 2023 · $50k
T
TEAMATES
one grant, 2024 · $50k

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.

Regional West Health Services

Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.

Health

Children's Physicians

Children's physicians delivers the highest quality pediatric primary care while supporting education and research.

Health

University of Iowa Facilities Corporation

The university of iowa facilities corporation acquires and holds property for the benefit and use of the university of iowa.

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Omaha Community Foundation

To serve the community by cultivating generosity and strengthening nonprofits.

Philanthropy

Omaha Sports Commission

The mission of the omaha sports commission is to foster a positive socio-economic impact on and a heightened awareness and image of omaha by attracting, hosting, & supporting amateur sporting events.

Recreation & Sports

Nebraska Organ Recovery System

We transform lives through organ and tissue donation.

Health

Catholic Charities Foundation

Support the mission and social services programs of catholic charities of the archdiocese of omaha, inc.

Religion

Feeding South Dakota

To eliminate hunger in south dakota.

Food & Nutrition

Arbor Research Collaborative for Health

Arbor research collaborative for health is committed to improving patient care through research that shapes medical policies and practice. in particular, arbor research conducts health outcomes research on chronic disease and end-stage…

Health

Minnesota Hospital Association

Advance the health of individuals and communities through leadership, advocacy and collaboration on behalf of minnesota hospitals and health systems. vision: minnesotans are healthy and have access to the right care at the right time in…

Community Improvement

America's Health Insurance Plans Inc

Ahip is the national trade association representing the health insurance industry. ahip's members provide health care coverage, services and solutions to more than 200 million americans. we are committed to market-based solutions and…

Membership Benefit

Midwest Dairy Association

Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hope Center for Kids Inc; the most unlike its peers is Arch 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

28 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. 28 of the 39 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)

28/28

Grantees still filing

17/28

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Education$3,512,499Health$835,000Other$1,015,000Youth Development$265,000Arts & Culture$185,000Human Services$170,000Animals$140,000

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.

The Lozier FoundationNE24× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Lozier Foundation · Suzanne & Walter Scott Foundation · The Hawks Foundation · The Charles and Mary Heider Family Foundation · Robert B Daugherty Foundation · Parker Family Foundation · Leland J & Dorothy H Olson Charitable Foundation · The Sherwood Foundation · Amy L Scott Family Foundation · The Nebraska Medical Center · Iowa West Foundation · Ike & Roz Friedman 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 Jim and Shirley Young Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Jim and Shirley Young Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%

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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