· Private foundation
Violet G Young Charitable Trust
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 $10k43 grants · $56k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $24k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ARIZONA TESLA SCIENCE FOUNDATION | $23,643 |
| Cancer Research Institute | $9,501 |
| DALLAS CENTER-GRIMES COMMUNITY SCHOOL | $4,865 |
| SBPA SERVICES INC | $3,183 |
| PIONEER PROGRAMS | $3,183 |
| FURTHER SHORE INC | $2,500 |
| ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF | $2,000 |
| NORTHLAND HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE | $2,000 |
| FLAGSTAFF FAMILY FOOD CENTER | $2,000 |
| DIANE FOSSEY GORILLA FUND | $1,273 |
| FOOD BANK OF IOWA | $1,273 |
| AMAZON CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION | $1,273 |
| ANIMAL LIFELINE OF IOWA | $1,273 |
| FURRY FRIENDS REFUGE WEST DES MOINES | $1,273 |
| NATIONAL DISASTER SEARCH DOG FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
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, $29k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 75% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
80 repeat relationships — 39 still active in FY2025, 41 since wound down; 5 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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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
- DCDALLAS CENTER-GRIMES EDUCATION FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2023 · $14k · revenue +296%
- ALANIMAL LIFELINE OF IOWA INC9× · 2017–2025 · $11k · revenue +38%
- FBFOOD BANK OF IOWA9× · 2017–2025 · $11k · revenue +228%
Funded once
- SMSedona Montessori School Incone grant, 2021 · $9k · revenue 0%
- LALOST ARTS RESEARCH INSTITUTEone grant, 2017 · $8k
- TSTESLA SCIENCE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $8k
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.
To compassionately serve pets and the people who love them.
Animal outlook is a national animal protection organization working to end the abuse of farmed animals using a variety of strategies, including investigations, legal advocacy, corporate and food system reform, and vegan outreach.
The friends are dedicated to the rescue, protection, and adoption of companion animals in need while inspiring the human-animal bond. we meet our mission by:-saving 100% of healthy and treatable animals.-providing high-quality animal care…
We save the most vulnerable animals and enrich the lives of pets and people.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
To improve and save lives through compassionate care, community engagement and advocacy for animals.
To bring about a time when there are no more homeless pets. we do this by demonstrating and promoting exemplary animal care and building community programs and partnerships.
To reduce the number of homeless pets through adoption, rescue and spay and neuter programs.
All about animals rescue's mission is no more homeless pets.
Reduce the euthanasia rate of healthy and adoptable animals and improve the lives of companion animals by finding permanent homes for animals in need, providing support to communities who do not have access to humane organizations,…
The mission of the Idaho Humane Society (IHS) is to advocate for the welfare and responsible care of animals, protect them from neglect and cruelty, and promote humane education, awareness and compassion for all living creatures.
Santa barbara humane operates two campuses located in santa barbara and santa maria providing care for community-owned and homeless animals. both campuses offer affordable high quality veterinary care, compassionate behavior training…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Action Against Hunger - Usa and the most unlike its peers is Als Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
88 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. 88 of the 152 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 THE ARIZONA TESLA SCIENCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Community Transition Academy ↗
- Who funds DALLAS CENTER-GRIMES EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL LIFELINE OF IOWA INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF IOWA ↗
- Who funds TELLURIDE SOCIETY FOR JAZZ ↗
- Who funds CANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds Sedona Montessori School Inc ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ELLIPSIS INC ↗
- Who funds AMAZON CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds FURRY FRIENDS REFUGE ↗
- Who funds MISS KITTYS CAT HOUSE ↗
- Who funds THE POORE MEDICAL CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY WORLDWIDE ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE HEARTLAND INC ↗
- Who funds Prescott Mountain Bike Alliance ↗
- Who funds INFINITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREATER DES MOINES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds FLAGSTAFF FAMILY FOOD CENTER ↗
- Who funds SBPA SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIORS FAMILY SUPPORT INC ↗
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: Arizona Community Foundation · Prairie Meadows Race Track and Casino Inc · Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · Molly and Joseph Herman Foundation · The West Bancorporation Foundation Inc · Kyle J & Sharon Krause Family Foundation · Ita Group Foundation · EMC Insurance Foundation · Variety - the Children's Charity of Iowa · Meredith Corporation Foundation · Geile Charitable Foundation · United Way of Northern Arizona Inc
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 Violet G Young Charitable Trust 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.
- World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals — 67% of income from government
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
- Neads Inc — 1% of income from government
- K9S for Warriors Inc — 0% of income from government
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.