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.

The Yonge Foundation

The Yonge Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Yonge Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$561k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$110k

Largest

01What it funds

0191% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$815kInternational$349kRecreation & Sports$316kArts & Culture$248kYouth Development$239kHealth$235kCrime & Legal$172kFood & Nutrition$167kOther$0

02FY2025 · 52 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k40 grants · $143k
$10k–50k8 grants · $143k
$50k–250k4 grants · $275k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$11M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
EXPLORE AUSTIN	$110,000
RED OAK HOPE	$65,311
AMERICAN BALLET THEATER	$50,000
YMCA OF AUSTIN	$50,000
SEEDLING FOUNDATION	$30,010
THE ARC CAPITAL AREA	$20,402
FORDHAM PREPARATORY SCHOOL	$20,000
HELPING HAND HOME FOR CHILDREN	$20,000
BADGER SWIM CLUB	$15,000
Individual grant recipient	$15,000
NATIONAL CENTER MISS AND EXPLOITED	$12,500
FOUNDATION COMMUNITIES	$10,000
YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES	$7,217
ELCAORG	$7,000
CENTER FOR CHILD PROTECTION	$6,030

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, $704k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

$2.9M · 63 repeat orgs$356k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +10% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

63 repeat relationships: 43 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.9M

$309k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%

Still filing today

62%

30%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $46k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHealthAnimalsEducationInternationalHousing & ShelterOther

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

RO
RED OAK HOPE
6× · 2020–2025 · $339k · revenue +131%
YM
YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF AUSTIN
6× · 2017–2025 · $265k · revenue +59%
AE
AUSTIN EXPLORE INC
5× · 2021–2025 · $176k · revenue +187%

Funded once

YA
YMCA AT CAMP MOODY
one grant, 2022 · $30k
FF
FOSTER FAMILY YMCA
one grant, 2017 · $30k
RC
REFUGE CORPORATION
one grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue -7%

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.

Banner -University Medical Group

Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.

Health

Children's Health System of Texas

With more than 1 million patient visits each year, Children's Health is North Texas' leading pediatric health system and among the largest in the nation. For more than a century, our mission has been clear: make life better for children.…

Health

The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

The aspca's mission, as stated by founder henry bergh in 1866, is "to provide effective means for the prevention of cruelty to animals throughout the united states." the aspca was founded on the belief that animals are entitled to kind and…

Animals

United States Telecom Association

See schedule oustelecom exists to ensure members can compete, grow and thrive to build a world where families, enterprises and communities are connected through the power of broadband.our member companies have committed a considerable…

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American Civil Liberties Union of Texas Inc

The ACLU of Texas works with communities, at the State Capitol, and in the courts to protect and advance civil rights and civil liberties for every Texan, no exceptions.

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Any Baby Can of Austin Inc

Any baby can, an austin-based nonprofit, partners with parents so children reach their full potential. with programs that meet clients where they are at home, work or school any baby can provides in-home therapy, parent education, mental…

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Animal Wellness Action

To prevent cruelty to animals, we promote enacting and enforcing good public policies. enacting good laws depends upon electing good lawmakers, and we remind voters which candidates care about and support animal issues.

Human Services

American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech

Uatx

Uatx is a nonprofit dedicated to building a liberal arts university committed to freedom of inquiry, freedom of conscience, and civil discourse. to maintain these principles, the university will be fiercely independent financially,…

Education

The Foundation for Aids Research

Amfar is dedicated to ending the global aids epidemic through innovative research. (see schedule o)

Health

Banner Alzheimer's Foundation

Established in 2006, the banner alzheimer's foundation (baf) secures and stewards charitable gifts to advance the mission of banner alzheimer's institute (bai), including groundbreaking research initiatives and pioneering prevention…

Health

American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Center for Child Protection; the most unlike its peers is Sabinal Alumni. 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

64 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. 64 of the 136 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)

63/64

Grantees still filing

39/64

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$1,329,953Human Services$839,940International$353,069Education$321,140Arts & Culture$235,000Health$113,166Animals$108,300

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.

Austin Community Foundation IncTX31.4× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

3get no government money at all

13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home