Texas · Private foundation
The Yonge Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $561k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 52
- Grants FY2025
- 54
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 31%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $110,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 11 to 56
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 14
- Total assets, FY2025
- $11M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 31% of the organizations The Yonge Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $51k 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 | 50 | $554k | 14% |
| FY2024 | 54 | $451k | 31% |
| FY2023 | 51 | $577k | 25% |
| FY2022 | 56 | $550k | 55% |
| FY2021 | 41 | $586k | 56% |
| FY2020 | 25 | $185k | 72% |
| FY2019 | 11 | $132k | 73% |
| FY2018 | 15 | $134k | 93% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Helping Hand Home for Children Inc | $341,747 | 7 | 1% |
| Red Oak Hope | $338,849 | 6 | 10% |
| Young Men's Christian Association of Austin | $265,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Austin Explore Inc | $176,040 | 5 | 2% |
| Ballet Theatre Foundation Inc | $150,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Young Men's Christian Association of the Greater Houston Area | $125,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Seedling Foundation | $110,540 | 7 | 2% |
| New York City Ballet Inc | $85,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Foundation Communities Inc | $63,375 | 6 | 0% |
| Mobile Loaves & Fishes Inc | $60,408 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 66 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 68 recipients with no EIN on record ($827k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Yonge Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 59 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: Austin Community Foundation Inc · The Moody Foundation · Better Business Bureau · St David's Foundation · United Way Worldwide · Shield-Ayres Foundation · Donald D Hammill Foundation · Topfer Family Foundation · United Way for Greater Austin · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Bright Funds Foundation · Nelson Puett Foundation
How this is measured
About The Yonge Foundation
- How much does The Yonge Foundation give?
- The Yonge Foundation reported 52 grants totaling $561,175 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 56 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Yonge Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (25%), International (11%), Recreation & Sports (10%).
- Who are The Yonge Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Helping Hand Home for Children Inc ($342k), Red Oak Hope ($339k), Young Men's Christian Association of Austin ($265k).
- Does The Yonge Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 31% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Yonge Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Yonge Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Austin Community Foundation Inc, The Moody Foundation, Better Business Bureau.
- Where is The Yonge Foundation based?
- The Yonge Foundation is based in TX.
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