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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
GREENS FARMS ACADEMY INC$100,000
COMMON GOOD$100,000
GRAYSON-JOCKEY CLUB RESEARCH FOUNDATION$75,000
FINE ARTS MUSEUMS OF SAN FRANCISCO$27,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
CHATHAM ORPHEUM THEATER$25,000
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA$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
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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 (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 74% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its 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: $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 LEXINGTON: $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
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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
OH
CT
CA
KY
VA
TN
NC
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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +49% since the first grant, against +33% for those 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%
+33%

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
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

  • 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%
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

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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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5
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
9
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
10
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
11
Vanderbilt University

See Disclosure Above.

Education
12
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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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fayette Alliance Foundation Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

27 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. 27 of the 36 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/27
Grantees still filing
23/27
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 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 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
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.

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.

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

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 T Young Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from William T Young Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%2%6%14%25%funder's 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
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.
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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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 36 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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