· Private foundation
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.
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 $10k12 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $45k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BLOCK ISLAND MEDICAL CENTER | $35,000 |
| PARTNERS IN HEALTH | $10,000 |
| BLOCK ISLAND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT | $7,000 |
| THE TENEMENT MUSEUM | $5,000 |
| HARBOR BAPTIST CHURCH | $3,300 |
| BLOCK ISLAND CONSERVANCY | $3,000 |
| RHODE ISLAND NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM | $1,000 |
| MARY D FUND | $1,000 |
| ANIMAL CARE CENTERS OF NYC | $1,000 |
| BLOCK ISLAND EARLY LEARNING CENTER | $1,000 |
| BLOCK ISLAND FILM FESTIVAL | $500 |
| CT FARMLAND TRUST | $500 |
| CONSERFEST | $500 |
| ST ANDREWS PARISH | $300 |
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 (FY25–25, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 6% of William C Young Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
16 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 9 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, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k 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
- PSPastor & Standing Comm South Congregation Church2× · 2017–2023 · $11k · revenue +11%
- CFCENTER FOR RESPONSIBLE TRAVEL2× · 2017–2018 · $10k · revenue +5%
- BIBLOCK ISLAND HEALTH SERVICES INC2× · 2018–2020 · $5k · revenue +408%
Funded once
- FBFIRST BAPTIST CHURCHone grant, 2020 · $10k
- TMTHE MUSIC SERIES AT SOUTH CHURCHone grant, 2023 · $6k
- FOFRIENDS OF THE ISLAND FREE LIBRARYone grant, 2023 · $6k
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.
Preserve ri's vision is a future where historic preservation creates positive change, making our diverse cultures, the environment, and the economy better for the people who live, visit and work in rhode island. preserve ri's mission is to…
The nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…
The connecticut humane society is the leading resource in the state for companion animal welfare, enriching the lives of families and communities through adoption services, medical care, education, and prevention of cruelty.
The Land Conservancy of Ridgefield, Inc. ("the Land Conservancy"), founded in 1967, preserves and protects, for the general benefit of the public, Ridgefield, Connecticut's natural resources including land and water resources, the plant…
To serve the community as a valued resource for education, conservation and recreation.
Protecting, enhancing and conserving open spaces encompassing meadows, woodlands, wetlands, and waterways in the town of wilton ct.
The mission of Islesboro Islands Trust is to enhance the quality of residents' lives through the preservation of open space, educate all residents as to the value of the island's natural ecosystems, and act as an environmental advocate on…
None
Kennebunk Land Trust's mission is to permanently conserve and steward land to benefit natural and human communities.
The Chorus of Westerly is a community based volunteer organization that provides musical education, presents various musical performances throughout the year and holds an annual children's workshop in choral music
The mission of the audubon society of rhode island is to protect birds, other wildlife and their habitats through conservation, education and advocacy, for the benefit of all people and living things.
Natural History Institute is organized to provide leadership and resources for a revitalized practice of natural history that integrates art, science, and humanities to promote the health and well-being of humans and the rest of the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Connecticut Audubon Society Inc and the most unlike its peers is Block Island Film Festival. 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 31 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% 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 10% 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.
24 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. 24 of the 39 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 Pastor & Standing Comm South Congregation Church ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR RESPONSIBLE TRAVEL ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds BLOCK ISLAND HEALTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds LOWER EAST SIDE TENEMENT MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds BIODIVERSITY RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT AUDUBON SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds BLOCK ISLAND CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF WEST CENTRAL CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds FONDOS UNIDOS DE PUERTO RICO INC & UNITED WAY PUERTO RICO ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTO NUEVA ESCUELA INC ↗
- Who funds RHODE ISLAND NATURAL HISTORY SURVEY ↗
- Who funds Block Island Film Festival ↗
- Who funds MARY D FUND INC ↗
- Who funds BLOCK ISLAND EARLY LEARNING CENTER ↗
- Who funds TERRYVILLE LIONS CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL CARE AND CONTROL OF NEW YORK CITY INC ↗
- Who funds THE JONNYCAKE CENTER OF WESTERLY INC ↗
- Who funds THE RAPTOR TRUST ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK SAYS THANK YOU FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT CHORAL ARTISTS INC ↗
- Who funds LOVE146 INC ↗
- Who funds Connecticut Farmland Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds TWO HEARTS PREGNANCY CENTER 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: 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
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 William C Young Family 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- LOVE146 Inc — 49% of income from government
- Connecticut Farmland Trust Inc — 7% of income from government
- Connecticut Audubon Society Inc — 1% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 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.