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The Young Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $235k
- $250k+1 grant · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OAKLAND UNIVERSITY | $300,000 |
| OAKLAND FAMILY SERVICES | $25,000 |
| GLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK SE MI | $25,000 |
| LIGHTHOUSE OF OAKLAND COUNTY | $25,000 |
| HOPE WAMING CENTER AND RECUPERATIVE SHELTER | $25,000 |
| POWER COMPANY KIDS CLUB | $25,000 |
| NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE | $25,000 |
| MICAH 6 COMMUNITY | $20,000 |
| BALDWIN CENTER | $20,000 |
| GRACE CENTERS OF HOPE | $15,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $15,000 |
| CARE HOUSE OF OAKLAND COUNTY | $15,000 |
| THE NEW FOSTER CARE | $5,000 |
| FURNITURE BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MI | $5,000 |
| HAVEN | $5,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $545k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
27 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 2 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, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $305k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- OFOAKLAND FAMILY SERVICES9× · 2017–2025 · $235k · revenue +14%
- TPTHE POWER COMPANY KIDS CLUB9× · 2017–2025 · $178k · revenue +1%
- RAROCHESTER AREA NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE7× · 2017–2023 · $170k · revenue +104%
Funded once
- SOSOUTH OAKLAND SHELTERgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +392%
- MHMENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF MICHIGANone grant, 2022 · $5k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Community & home supports, inc. was founded to help people and communities address poverty and homelessness. we strive to fulfill our purpose by developing, leading, and participating in collaborative and innovative efforts that support…
To assist people with low or moderate income to obtain safe and affordable housing
Seeking to put God's love into action, Habitat for Humanity of Oakland County brings people together to build homes, communities and hope.
Ozone house provides holistic support and housing services that enhance the well-being and safety of young people through empowerment, advocacy, and connection.
Mid michigan community action guides local residents on the path to self-sufficiency through empowerment, education and community enrichment.
The michigan christian home dba beacon hill at eastgate, a not-for-profit corporation, provides housing and health services in a christian environment for older adults, thus enabling them to meet their ongoing physical, social and…
Assisting the community mental health boards of michigan in developing methods for mental health planning, care and treatment.
Michigan Family Resources mission is to deliver holistic family-centered services to children that promote their well-being and development.
To promote a violence free atmosphere from domestic and sexual violence in which survivors can recognize their options to have the opportunity to continue living violence free and regain their sense of self-worth; to educate and raise…
Catholic Social Services of Washtenaw County D/B/A Catholic Charities Washtenaw County provides diverse, holistic social services including adoption and pregnancy counseling, food and basic needs assistance, domestic and child abuse…
To ensure all michigan children and youth with emotional, behavioral, or mental health challenges and their families live in a safe, welcoming community with access to needed services and supports.
Detroit central city community mental health's mission is to achieve wellness in the community by providing an integrated array of mental health, housing and substance abuse services with diginity and respect.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lighthouse of Oakland County and the most unlike its peers is Nami Metro. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
19 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 19 of the 31 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds OAKLAND FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds THE POWER COMPANY KIDS CLUB ↗
- Who funds ROCHESTER AREA NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ↗
- Who funds LIGHTHOUSE OF OAKLAND COUNTY ↗
- Who funds THE BALDWIN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GRACE CENTERS OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds CAREHOUSE OF OAKLAND COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds MICAH 6 COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds COMMON GROUND ↗
- Who funds NAMI METRO ↗
- Who funds HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HOUSING NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATIONS ↗
- Who funds BEDS 4 KIDS ↗
- Who funds AFFIRMATIONS COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds SOUTH OAKLAND CITIZENS FOR THE HOMELESS ↗
- Who funds HURON-CLINTON METROPARKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTH OAKLAND SHELTER ↗
- Who funds THE NEW FOSTER CARE ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · United Way for Southeastern Michigan · Phillip and Elizabeth Filmer Memorial · Dte Energy Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · Alliance for Housing Oakland County Continuum of Care · The Jewish Fund · Eagles for Children · Ethel and James Flinn Foundation · Michigan Health Endowment Fund · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Carls Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Young Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.