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William C Young Family 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.

$69k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
14
Grants FY2025
4
Organizations funded FY2024
50%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$35,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 10
FY2017 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
4
Total assets, FY2025
$507k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 50% of the organizations William C Young Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 52% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentPhilanthropyArts & CultureHealthEducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving14$69k64%
FY20244$32k50%
FY20239$52k78%
FY20221$12k0%
FY20217$26k29%
FY202010$28k70%
FY20186$20k67%
FY20178$11kn/a
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$70kReligion$59kEnvironment$37kArts & Culture$26kEducation$13kHousing & Shelter$11kInternational$10kCommunity Improvement$7kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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NY
MA
NJ
CT
RI
DC

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
First Baptist Church$30,0002n/a
Conserfest$18,6964n/a
Pastor & Standing Comm South Congregation Church$10,50022%
First Baptist Church$10,0001n/a
Center for Responsible Travel$10,00021%
Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation$10,00010%
Block Island Health Services Inc$5,30020%
Lower East Side Tenement Museum$5,00010%
Biodiversity Research Institute$4,50020%
Connecticut Audubon Society Inc$4,10020%
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All grantees of William C Young Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
First Baptist Church$30,0002n/a
Conserfest$18,6964n/a
Pastor & Standing Comm South Congregation Church$10,50022%
First Baptist Church$10,0001n/a
Center for Responsible Travel$10,00021%
Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation$10,00010%
Block Island Health Services Inc$5,30020%
Lower East Side Tenement Museum$5,00010%
Biodiversity Research Institute$4,50020%
Connecticut Audubon Society Inc$4,10020%
Block Island Conservancy Inc$3,50021%
Global Sickle Cell Alliance$3,5001n/a
United Way of West Central Connecticut Inc$3,50030%
Fondos Unidos de Puerto Rico Inc & United Way Puerto Rico$3,0001n/a
Instituto Nueva Escuela Inc$3,00010%
Friends of Island Free Library$2,5001n/a
Rhode Island Natural History Survey$2,50020%
Block Island Film Festival$1,000212%
Terryville Lions Charities Inc$1,00020%
The Jonnycake Center of Westerly Inc$1,00010%
Mary D Fund Inc$1,0001n/a
Block Island Early Learning Center$1,00010%
Animal Care and Control of New York City Inc$1,00010%
The Raptor Trust$60020%
New York Says Thank You Foundation$50010%
Connecticut Choral Artists Inc$50010%
Love146 Inc$50010%
With Love From Lily Inc$5001n/a
Connecticut Farmland Trust Inc$50010%
Two Hearts Pregnancy Center Inc$1001n/a

Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($111k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget William C Young Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPastor & Standing Comm South Congregation Church: $10,500 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetCenter for Responsible Travel: $10,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetPartners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBlock Island Health Services Inc: $5,300 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetLower East Side Tenement Museum: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBiodiversity Research Institute: $4,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetConnecticut Audubon Society Inc: $4,100 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBlock Island Conservancy Inc: $3,500 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetUnited Way of West Central Connecticut Inc: $3,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetInstituto Nueva Escuela Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRhode Island Natural History Survey: $2,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBlock Island Film Festival: $1,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetTerryville Lions Charities Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Jonnycake Center of Westerly Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBlock Island Early Learning Center: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAnimal Care and Control of New York City Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Raptor Trust: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNew York Says Thank You Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetConnecticut Choral Artists Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLove146 Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetConnecticut Farmland Trust Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 21.

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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.

The Bluestone FoundationCT17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Bluestone Foundation · The Rhode Island Community Foundation · Aetna Foundation Inc · James & Lisa Lillie Charitable Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About William C Young Family Foundation

How much does William C Young Family Foundation give?
William C Young Family Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $69,100 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 10 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
What does William C Young Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (28%), Religion (23%), Environment (15%).
Who are William C Young Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: First Baptist Church ($30k), Conserfest ($19k), Pastor & Standing Comm South Congregation Church ($11k).
Does William C Young Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does William C Young Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as William C Young Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Bluestone Foundation, The Rhode Island Community Foundation, Aetna Foundation Inc.
Where is William C Young Family Foundation based?
William C Young Family Foundation is based in CT.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 39 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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