Iowa · Private foundation
Violet G Young Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $80k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 44
- Grants FY2025
- 48
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 17%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $23,643
- Organizations funded a year
- 42 to 54
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 11
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.9M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 17% of the organizations Violet G Young Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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 | 44 | $80k | 11% |
| FY2024 | 48 | $68k | 17% |
| FY2023 | 49 | $78k | 20% |
| FY2022 | 43 | $84k | 16% |
| FY2021 | 43 | $75k | 19% |
| FY2020 | 54 | $69k | 63% |
| FY2019 | 48 | $68k | 44% |
| FY2018 | 42 | $58k | 24% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Arizona Tesla Science Foundation Inc | $113,838 | 8 | n/a |
| Further Shore Incorporated | $29,189 | 5 | n/a |
| Community Transition Academy | $14,131 | 3 | 1% |
| Dallas Center-Grimes Education Foundation | $14,097 | 7 | 3% |
| Stanton Migraine Protocol Inc | $12,496 | 2 | n/a |
| Animal Lifeline of Iowa Inc | $10,704 | 9 | 0% |
| Food Bank of Iowa | $10,703 | 9 | 0% |
| Telluride Society for Jazz | $10,325 | 4 | 6% |
| Cancer Research Institute Inc | $9,501 | 1 | 0% |
| Sedona Montessori School Inc | $9,338 | 1 | 8% |
Show all 98 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 52 recipients with no EIN on record ($167k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Violet G Young Charitable Trust supplied at peak.
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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: 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
How this is measured
About Violet G Young Charitable Trust
- How much does Violet G Young Charitable Trust give?
- Violet G Young Charitable Trust reported 44 grants totaling $79,835 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 42 and 54 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Violet G Young Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Science & Tech (18%), Animals (15%), Health (12%).
- Who are Violet G Young Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Arizona Tesla Science Foundation Inc ($114k), Further Shore Incorporated ($29k), Community Transition Academy ($14k).
- Does Violet G Young Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Violet G Young Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Violet G Young Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Arizona Community Foundation, Prairie Meadows Race Track and Casino Inc, Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn.
- Where is Violet G Young Charitable Trust based?
- Violet G Young Charitable Trust is based in IA.
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