Michigan · Private foundation
The Young Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $562k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 19
- Grants FY2025
- 17
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 12%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $300,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 12 to 21
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5.1M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 12% of the organizations The Young 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; $28k 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 | 19 | $562k | 11% |
| FY2024 | 17 | $256k | 12% |
| FY2023 | 17 | $250k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 21 | $271k | 19% |
| FY2021 | 18 | $274k | 33% |
| FY2020 | 12 | $201k | 8% |
| FY2019 | 12 | $138k | 8% |
| FY2018 | 15 | $186k | 7% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oakland University | $300,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Oakland Family Services | $235,000 | 9 | 0% |
| The Power Company Kids Club | $178,000 | 9 | 2% |
| Rochester Area Neighborhood House | $170,000 | 7 | 2% |
| Lighthouse of Oakland County | $160,000 | 9 | 45% |
| The Baldwin Center Inc | $110,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Grace Centers of Hope | $100,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Carehouse of Oakland County Inc | $91,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Salvation Army | $85,000 | 7 | n/a |
| Micah 6 Community | $75,000 | 5 | 1% |
Show all 21 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oakland University | $300,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Oakland Family Services | $235,000 | 9 | 0% |
| The Power Company Kids Club | $178,000 | 9 | 2% |
| Rochester Area Neighborhood House | $170,000 | 7 | 2% |
| Lighthouse of Oakland County | $160,000 | 9 | 45% |
| The Baldwin Center Inc | $110,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Grace Centers of Hope | $100,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Carehouse of Oakland County Inc | $91,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Salvation Army | $85,000 | 7 | n/a |
| Micah 6 Community | $75,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Common Ground | $70,600 | 3 | 0% |
| Nami Metro | $25,000 | 5 | 4% |
| Haven Inc | $25,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Community Housing Network Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Council of Michigan Foundations | $16,400 | 9 | 0% |
| Beds 4 Kids | $12,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Affirmations Community Center | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| South Oakland Citizens for the Homeless | $6,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Huron-Clinton Metroparks Foundation | $5,000 | 2 | 2% |
| South Oakland Shelter | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The New Foster Care | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($603k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Young Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 18 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: 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
How this is measured
About The Young Foundation
- How much does The Young Foundation give?
- The Young Foundation reported 19 grants totaling $562,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 21 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Young Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (45%), Education (13%), Food & Nutrition (11%).
- Who are The Young Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Oakland University ($300k), Oakland Family Services ($235k), The Power Company Kids Club ($178k).
- Does The Young Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 12% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Young Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Young Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan, United Way for Southeastern Michigan, Phillip and Elizabeth Filmer Memorial.
- Where is The Young Foundation based?
- The Young Foundation is based in MI.
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