· Private foundation
The Young Family Charitable 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k10 grants · $190k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $722k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEW CANAAN COUNTRY SCHOOL | $125,000 |
| DIOCESE OF BRIDGEPORT | $99,000 |
| AMERICAN REPERTORY THEATER | $99,000 |
| MALTA HOUSE | $99,000 |
| NEW HAMPSHIRE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| NEW YORK CITY BALLET | $50,000 |
| REGIS COLLEGE | $50,000 |
| REGIS COLLEGE | $50,000 |
| WORD ON FIRE CATHOLIC MINISTRIES | $50,000 |
| ST PATRICKS CATHEDRAL LANDMARK FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| NYCB NEW COMBINATIONS FUND | $30,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| FOUNDATIONS IN EDUCATIONS | $25,000 |
| DIOCESE OF BRIDGEPORT | $25,000 |
| REGIS COLLEGE | $25,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY23–24, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.
15 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $344k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MSMUSTARD SEED COMMUNITIES INC4× · 2021–2024 · $2.9M · revenue +62%
- TNTHE NEW CANAAN COUNTRY SCHOOL INCORPORATED5× · 2021–2025 · $317k · revenue +26%
REGIS COLLEGE5× · 2021–2025 · $315k · revenue +11%
Funded once
Fairfield Universityone grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue +14%- FFFOUNDATION FOR PROMOTION OF EVANGELISMone grant, 2023 · $100k
- STST THOMAS MORE R C CHURCH CORPone grant, 2021 · $90k
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.
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.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Dedicated to learning, personal growth, knowledge creation, and the betterment of society. the university engages students in aquiring the knowledge, skills, and values necessary to thrive in and contribute to a pluralistic, complex world.
Emmanuel college is a coed, residential catholic liberal arts and sciences college with 2,112 undergraduate and graduate students.
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Mitchell college educates students through a highly individualized educational approach that brings forward each student's potential, reveals their strengths, and fosters personal growth.
See schedule oprovidence college is a catholic, dominican, liberal arts institution of higher education and a community committed to academic excellence.
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
The College is a diverse learning community that strives for academic excellence in the Catholic and Jesuit tradition through comprehensive programs rooted in the liberal arts and sciences.
How this is measured
17 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. 17 of the 34 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds MUSTARD SEED COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds THE NEW CANAAN COUNTRY SCHOOL INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds REGIS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds MALTA HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Fairfield University ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN REPERTORY THEATRE CO INC ↗
- Who funds Foundations in Education Inc ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK CITY BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds WORD ON FIRE CATHOLIC MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds New Hampshire Charitable Foundation ↗
- Who funds UNITED SOUTH END SETTLEMENTS ↗
- Who funds NEW CANAAN CHAMBER MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds Veritas Catholic Network Inc ↗
- Who funds Horizons at CT State Norwalk Inc ↗
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: The Pfizer Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Young Family Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Young Family Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
- Regis College: 2% of income from government
- Fairfield University: 1% of income from government
- American Repertory Theatre Co Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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