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William T Young Foundation Inc

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.

$791k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.

Education$1.6MArts & Culture$709kHealth$463kRecreation & Sports$313kEnvironment$303kAnimals$245kPublic Benefit$144kCrime & Legal$43kOther$0
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $2k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $139k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $400k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$25,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$3.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY OPERA THEATRE$250,000
OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$125,000
COMMON GOOD$100,000
GREENS FARMS ACADEMY INC$100,000
GRAYSON-JOCKEY CLUB RESEARCH FOUNDATION$75,000
FINE ARTS MUSEUMS OF SAN FRANCISCO$27,000
CHATHAM ORPHEUM THEATER$25,000
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA$25,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
THE NEST CENTER FOR WOMEN CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC$15,000
GOVERNOR'S SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS KENTUCKY PERFORMING ARTS$12,000
VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER$10,000
THE LEXINGTON THEATRE COMPANY$2,000
02The need
03

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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 74% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CHATHAM ORPHEUM THEATER: $25k → 8%FINE ARTS MUSEUMS OF SAN FRANCISCO: $65k → 10%VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER: $20k → 14%DUKE UNIVERSITY: $100k → 11%OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $125k → 15%UNITING VOICES LEXINGTON: $25k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: $40k → 8%THE HENRY CLAY CENTER: $25k → 15%FINE ARTS MUSEUMS OF SAN FRANCISCO: $65k → 10%DUKE UNIVERSITY: $50k → 11%OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $125k → 15%UNITING VOICES: $25k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: $40k → 8%HENRY CLAY CENTER: $25k → 15%FINE ARTS MUSEUMS OF SAN FRANCISCO: $60k → 10%DUKE UNIVERSITY: $50k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: $25k → 8%THE HENRY CLAY CENTER FOR STATESMANSHIP: $25k → 15%FINE ARTS MUSEUMS OF SAN FRANCISCO: $35k → 10%DUKE UNIVERSITY: $50k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: $20k → 8%HENRY CLAY CENTER: $25k → 15%FINE ARTS MUSEUMS OF SAN FRANCISCO: $30k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: $25k → 8%HENRY CLAY MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $20k → 15%FINE ARTS MUSEUMS OF SAN FRANCISCO: $27k → 10%GREENS FARMS ACADEMY INC: $100k → 9%THE LEXINGTON SCHOOL: $25k → 15%GREENS FARMS ACADEMY INC: $100k → 9%THE LEXINGTON SCHOOL: $25k → 15%GREENS FARMS ACADEMY INC: $50k → 9%THE LEXINGTON SCHOOL: $25k → 15%GREENS FARMS ACADEMY INC: $25k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY MARKEY CANCER FOUNDATION: $175k → 15%GRAYSON-JOCKEY CLUB RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $75k → 15%GRAYSON-JOCKEY CLUB RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $50k → 15%GRAYSON-JOCKEY CLUB RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $40k → 15%GRAYSON-JOCKEY CLUB RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $40k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY MARKEY CANCER FOUNDATION: $35k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY MARKEY CANCER FOUNDATION: $25k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY MARKEY CANCER FOUNDATION: $25k → 15%UNITING VOICES LEXINGTON: $25k → 15%TRANSYLVANIA UNIVERSITY: $225k → 15%TRANSYLVANIA UNIVERSITY: $178k → 15%TRANSYLVANIA UNIVERSITY: $174k → 15%TOWN BRANCH PARK: $180k → 15%TOWN BRANCH PARK: $63k → 15%TOWN BRANCH PARK: $55k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.0M · 18 repeat orgs$956k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +49% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.

18 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
13

Total granted

$3.0M
$567k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+25%

Still filing today

78%
69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $389k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureHealthRecreation & SportsAnimalsPublic BenefitOther

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

  • TU
    TRANSYLVANIA UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2020–2022 · $577k · revenue +54%
  • TB
    TOWN BRANCH PARK INC
    3× · 2020–2023 · $298k · revenue +7%
  • CO
    CORPORATION OF THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMS
    6× · 2020–2025 · $281k · revenue +35%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY ARBORETUM
    one grant, 2023 · $250k
  • TH
    THE HOPE CENTER INC
    one grant, 2024 · $150k · revenue +18%
  • GC
    GARDEN CLUB OF LEXINGTON INC
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -29%

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

04Your field

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.

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Washington and Lee University

Mission statement of washington and lee university: washington and lee university provides a liberal arts education that develops students' capacity to think freely, critically, and humanely and to conduct themselves with honor, integrity,…

Education
2
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
3
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
4
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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Georgetown College

Georgetown college is a fully accredited liberal arts institution of higher learning located in georgetown, kentucky. the college is committed to providing opportunities for excellence in higher learning under christian influences so as to…

Education
6
Carleton College

See schedule o.founded in 1866, carleton college is a private, coeducational liberal arts college of 2,007 students located in the historic river town of northfield, minnesota. nationally recognized as the nation's top college for…

Education
7
Thomas Jefferson School of Law

The mission of the school is to provide outstanding legal education in a collegial and supportive environment with attention to newly emerging areas of law, particularly those related to technological development, globalization and the…

Education
8
Gettysburg College

Gettysburg college is a residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.

Education
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Kentucky College of Art Design

The kentucky college of art and design opens the door to a creative and productive life through an undergraduate education in the contemporary arts.

Education
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University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
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Vanderbilt University

See Disclosure Above.

Education
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Commerce Lexington Inc

To represent our members, creating the environment and opportunity for economic prosperity and quality living in central kentucky.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fayette Alliance Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is American Heart Association Inc. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyPublic University Foundatio…Independent K-8 SchoolsGovernment Accountability R…Cancer Support OrganizationsCommunity Health CentersClassical Music EnsemblesCommunity Arts OrganizationsAnimal Rescue and AdoptionLand Conservation Organizat…Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 41 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%0%<5yr14%14%5–10yr18%24%10–20yr16%5%20–35yr14%29%35–55yr18%29%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr14%13%5–10yr18%3%10–20yr16%4%20–35yr14%34%35–55yr18%47%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
4%1/27
the rest of the field
12%
2,432/20,291

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.

04the grantee network

27 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. 27 of the 36 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
26/27
Grantees still filing
23/27
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

TRANSYLVANIA UNIVERSITY — $576,596 · EducationTRANSYLVANIA UNIVERSITYGREENS FARMS ACADEMY INC — $275,000 · EducationGREENS FARMS ACADEMY INCOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $250,000 · EducationOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONDUKE UNIVERSITY — $250,000 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITYLEXINGTON SCHOOL INC — $75,000 · EducationSACRED HEART UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED — $50,000 · Education+2 more — $16,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY MARKEY CANCER FOUNDATION INC — $260,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY MARKEY CANCER …UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY OPERA THEATRE — $250,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY OPERA THEATREUNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY ARBORETUM — $250,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY ARBORETUMUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA — $170,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIATHE COMMON GOOD FORUM INC — $100,000 · OtherTHE COMMON GOOD FORUM INCHENRY CLAY CENTER — $75,000 · OtherHENRY CLAY CENTERIndividual grant recipient — $50,000 · OtherGARDEN CLUB OF LEXINGTON INC — $50,000 · Other+8 more — $117,000 · Other+8 moreCORPORATION OF THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMS — $281,325 · Arts & CultureCORPORATI…UNITING VOICES — $25,000 · Arts & CultureUNITING V…THE CHATHAM ORPHEUM THEATER INC — $25,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CHATH…KENTUCKY CENTER FOR THE ARTS FOUNDATION INC — $12,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $2,000 · Arts & CultureTOWN BRANCH PARK INC — $297,500 · Recreation & Sports+1 more — $2,000 · Recreation & SportsGRAYSON-JOCKEY CLUB RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC — $245,000 · AnimalsTHE HOPE CENTER INC — $150,000 · Housing & ShelterTHE COMMON GOOD INSTITUTE INC — $42,500 · HealthVanderbilt University Medical Center — $38,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc — $15,000 · Health
Education$1,493,096Other$1,322,000Arts & Culture$345,325Recreation & Sports$299,500Animals$245,000Housing & Shelter$150,000Health$95,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTRANSYLVANIA UNIVERSITY — $576,596 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTOWN BRANCH PARK INC — $297,500 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetCORPORATION OF THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMS — $281,325 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetGREENS FARMS ACADEMY INC — $275,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY MARKEY CANCER FOUNDATION INC — $260,000 over 4y, 3.6% of budgetOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $250,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY — $250,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGRAYSON-JOCKEY CLUB RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC — $245,000 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetTHE HOPE CENTER INC — $150,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetLEXINGTON SCHOOL INC — $75,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGARDEN CLUB OF LEXINGTON INC — $50,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetSACRED HEART UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED — $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COMMON GOOD INSTITUTE INC — $42,500 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetVanderbilt University Medical Center — $38,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR WOMEN CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC — $35,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetUNITING VOICES — $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHENRY CLAY CENTER FOR STATESMANSHIP — $25,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetHENRY CLAY MEMORIAL FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetENTITLEMENTS HOW INC — $13,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetKENTUCKY CENTER FOR THE ARTS FOUNDATION INC — $12,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFAYETTE ALLIANCE FOUNDATION INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLEXINGTON THEATRE COMPANY — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TRIANGLE FOUNDATION INC — $2,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budget
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.

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.

Blue Grass Community …Rosenstein Family Cha…Christian Word Minist…The Mt Brilliant Fami…Alex G Campbell Jr Fo…Ee Murry Family Found…Crutcher Family Found…LG&E and Ku Foundatio…The Community Foundat…Baird Foundation IncThe HEP Foundation Bu…Carol Bernick Family …
Blue Grass Community Foundation IncKY27.6× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Blue Grass Community Foundation Inc · Rosenstein Family Charitable Foundation Inc · Christian Word Ministries Inc · The Mt Brilliant Family Foundation (Formerly Hgg Family Foundation) · Alex G Campbell Jr Foundation Inc · Ee Murry Family Foundation · Crutcher Family Foundation Inc · LG&E and Ku Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · The HEP Foundation Business Trust L Edwin Paulson Jr Trustee · Carol Bernick Family Foundation

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 T Young Foundation Inc 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Sacred Heart University Incorporated — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

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How do I get to William T Young Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to William T Young Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 36 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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