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William H Young Ta Char

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.

$102k
Granted FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

Religion$181kHuman Services$60kHealth$40kArts & Culture$20kEducation$20kFood & Nutrition$20kPublic Safety & Disaster$20kYouth Development$18kOther$0
02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k13 grants · $66k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $36k
$5,082
Median grant
4
States reached
$2.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST MATTHEW'S LUTHERAN CHURCH$25,408
MT ZION REFORMED UCC$10,163
YORK BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION$5,082
GLATFELTER MEMORIAL LIBRARY$5,082
SPRING GROVE VFW POST 5265$5,082
SPRING GROVE HISTORICAL SOCIETY$5,082
THE SALVATION ARMY$5,082
PLEASANT HILL CHURCH OF THE BRETHRE$5,082
NEW BIRTH OF FRDOM COUNCIL BSA$5,082
FRIENDSHIP HOSE COMPANY #1$5,082
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION$5,082
Individual grant recipient$5,082
WELLSPAN VNA HOME CARE$5,082
AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION$5,082
GIRL SCOUTS IN THE HEART OF PA$5,082
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY22–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 94% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 6%GIRL SCOUTS IN THE HEART OF PA: $6k → 8%PLEASANT HILL CHURCH OF THE BRETHRE: $6k → 9%MT ZION REFORMED UCC: $11k → 9%THE SALVATION ARMY: $6k → 14%AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION: $6k → 5%GIRL SCOUTS IN THE HEART OF PA: $5k → 8%PLEASANT HILL CHURCH OF THE BRETHRE: $5k → 9%MT ZION REFORMED UCC: $10k → 9%THE SALVATION ARMY: $5k → 14%AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION: $5k → 5%GIRL SCOUTS IN THE HEART OF PA: $4k → 8%PLEASANT HILL CHURCH OF THE BRETHRE: $5k → 9%MT ZION REFORMED UCC: $10k → 9%THE SALVATION ARMY: $5k → 14%AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION: $5k → 5%GIRL SCOUTS IN THE HEART OF PA: $2k → 8%PLEASANT HILL CHURCH OF THE BRETHRE: $4k → 9%MT ZION REFORMED UCC: $9k → 9%THE SALVATION ARMY: $4k → 14%AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION: $4k → 5%FRIENDSHIP HOSE COMPANY #1: $6k → 9%SPRING GROVE HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $6k → 9%GLATFELTER MEMORIAL LIBRARY: $6k → 9%SPRING GROVE VFW POST 5265: $6k → 9%SPRING GROVE HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $5k → 9%GLATFELTER MEMORIAL LIBRARY: $5k → 9%FRIENDSHIP HOSE COMPANY #1: $5k → 9%SPRING GROVE VFW POST 5265: $5k → 9%SPRING GROVE HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $5k → 9%SPRING GROVE VFW POST 5265: $5k → 9%GLATFELTER MEMORIAL LIBRARY: $5k → 9%FRIENDSHIP HOSE COMPANY #1: $5k → 9%GLATFELTER MEMORIAL LIBRARY: $4k → 9%NEW BIRTH OF FRDOM COUNCIL BSA: $6k → 9%FRIENDSHIP HOSE COMPANY #1: $4k → 9%NEW BIRTH OF FRDOM COUNCIL BSA: $5k → 9%SPRING GROVE VFW POST 5265: $4k → 9%NEW BIRTH OF FRDOM COUNCIL BSA: $5k → 9%SPRING GROVE HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $4k → 9%NEW BIRTH OF FRDOM COUNCIL BSA: $4k → 9%ST MATTHEW'S LUTHERAN CHURCH: $29k → 9%ST MATTHEW'S LUTHERAN CHURCH: $25k → 9%ST MATTHEW'S LUTHERAN CHURCH: $24k → 9%ST MATTHEW'S LUTHERAN CHURCH: $22k → 9%WELLSPAN VNA HOME CARE: $6k → 9%WELLSPAN VNA HOME CARE: $5k → 9%WELLSPAN VNA HOME CARE: $5k → 9%WELLSPAN VNA HOME CARE: $4k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$401k · 15 repeat orgs$0 to everyone else

15 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
0

Total granted

$401k
$0

Still filing today

33%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationPublic Safety & DisasterYouth DevelopmentOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • YB
    YORK BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION
    4× · 2022–2025 · $20k · revenue +23%
  • AH
    American Heart Association Inc
    4× · 2022–2025 · $20k · revenue +25%
  • FH
    FRIENDSHIP HOSE COMPANY 1
    4× · 2022–2025 · $20k · revenue +18%

Funded once

    How this is measured

    Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

    04Its field
    04the grantee network

    6 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

    Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

    How this is measured

    Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 6 of the 15 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

    Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

    0
    Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
    0
    Early backer (in before they grew)
    5/6
    Grantees still filing
    3/6
    Grew since first funded

    Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

    ST MATTHEWS LUTHERAN CHURCH: $100,803 · OtherST MATTHEWS LUTHERAN CHURCHMT ZION REFORMED UCC: $40,321 · OtherMT ZION REFORMED UCCSPRING GROVE VFW POST 5265: $20,161 · OtherSPRING GROVE VFW POST 5265SPRING GROVE HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $20,161 · OtherSPRING GROVE HISTORICAL SOCIETYYORK BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION: $20,161 · OtherYORK BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATIONNEW BIRTH OF FRDOM COUNCIL BSA: $20,161 · OtherNEW BIRTH OF FRDOM COUNCIL BSAPLEASANT HILL CHURCH OF THE BRETHRE: $20,161 · OtherPLEASANT HILL CHURCH OF THE BRETHREIndividual grant recipient: $20,161 · OtherIndividual grant recipientWELLSPAN VNA HOME CARE: $20,161 · OtherWELLSPAN VNA HOME CARETHE SALVATION ARMY: $20,161 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYAmerican Heart Association Inc: $20,161 · HealthAmerican He…AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION: $20,161 · HealthAMERICAN LU…GLATFELTER MEMORIAL LIBRARY: $20,161 · EducationFRIENDSHIP HOSE COMPANY 1: $20,161 · Public Safety & DisasterGIRL SCOUTS IN THE HEART OF PA: $17,727 · Youth Development
    Other$302,412Health$40,322Education$20,161Public Safety & Disaster$20,161Youth Development$17,727

    Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

    25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetYORK BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION: $20,161 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $20,161 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDSHIP HOSE COMPANY 1: $20,161 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetAMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION: $20,161 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS IN THE HEART OF PA: $17,727 over 4y, 0.1% of budget
    Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

    A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

    • Who funds GLATFELTER MEMORIAL LIBRARY ↗
    • Who funds YORK BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION ↗
    • Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
    • Who funds FRIENDSHIP HOSE COMPANY 1 ↗
    • Who funds AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION ↗
    • Who funds GIRL SCOUTS IN THE HEART OF PA ↗

    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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

    Amazonsmile FoundationWA2.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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    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.

    How much its grantees rely on government

    Each dot is one organization William H Young Ta Char funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from William H Young Ta Char. Bigger dots raise more.

    2024
    ’20’21’22’23’24’25
    no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
      no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
      0get no government money at all
      1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
      0rely on government for over half their income
      ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
      typical government reliance, FY20–25
      How this is measured
      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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

      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 15 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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