How much does Yellow-Crowned Foundation give?

Yellow-Crowned Foundation reported 50 grants totaling $589,725 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 45 and 48 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Yellow-Crowned Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (39%), Education (18%), Environment (15%).

Who are Yellow-Crowned Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Naples Children Foundation Inc ($1.7M), The Conservancy of Southwest Florida ($510k), Guadalupe Center Inc ($448k).

Does Yellow-Crowned Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 9% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Yellow-Crowned 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 Yellow-Crowned Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Santa Barbara Foundation, Ann Jackson Family Foundation, Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation.

Where is Yellow-Crowned Foundation based?

Yellow-Crowned Foundation is based in IL.

Yellow-Crowned Foundation

Yellow-Crowned Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Yellow-Crowned 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.

$590k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$282k

Largest

01What it funds

0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$1.9MEducation$883kEnvironment$710kHuman Services$620kHealth$159kInternational$128kArts & Culture$117kPublic Benefit$110kOther$0

02FY2025 · 50 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k38 grants · $113k
$10k–50k10 grants · $136k
$50k–250k1 grant · $60k
$250k+1 grant · $282k

$2,790

Median grant

States reached

$6.2M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
NAPLES CHILDREN & EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION	$281,500
CONSERVANCY OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA	$59,960
MONTECITO UNION SCHOOL FOUNDATION	$30,000
GUADALUPE CENTER OF IMMOKALEE	$15,000
RANDOLPH BOURNE INSTITUTE	$15,000
COMMUNITY ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL	$15,000
BARRINGTON AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION	$10,750
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO	$10,000
FLORIDA GULF COAST UNIVERSITY	$10,000
NEWBERRY LIBRARY	$10,000
CATO INSTITUTE	$10,000
CALM	$10,000
HOLY TRINITY HIGH SCHOOL	$9,750
NCH HEALTHCARE SYSTEM	$7,500
MAX MCGRAW WILDLIFE FOUNDATION	$7,500

02The need

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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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $494k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$4.8M · 71 repeat orgs$85k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against +21% for those funded once.

71 repeat relationships: 41 still active in FY2025, 30 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$4.8M

$69k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%

+21%

Still filing today

79%

64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthEducationEnvironmentPhilanthropyHuman ServicesArts & CultureOther

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

NC
NAPLES CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $1.7M · revenue +84%
THE CONSERVANCY OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA
9× · 2017–2025 · $510k · revenue +561%
GC
Guadalupe Center Inc
9× · 2017–2025 · $448k · revenue +145%

Funded once

GW
George Werden Buck Boys & Girls Club
one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +17%
NC
Northwest Community Hospital Foundation
one grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue -3%
GS
GWENDOLYN STRONG FOUNDATION
one grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue -89%

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.

Uc Santa Barbara Foundation

The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…

Education

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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United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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Bartlett Arboretum Association Inc

To cultivate and develop an expansive collection of trees, gardens, and plants for all to explore, enjoy and study; and to provide through education and stewardship, a greener, healthier, more beautiful environment.

Environment

President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education

Balboa Park Conservancy

Balboa Park Conservancy (the Conservancy) was organized on November 3, 1923. The Conservancy is the City of San Diegos (the City) partner and advocated for the greater good of Balboa Park (the Park). The Conservancy collaborated with and…

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International Biomedical Research Alliance

Our mission is to invest in and accelerate the development of the most promising future leaders in biomedical research with global impact.

Health

Ucla Foundation

The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…

Education

National Tropical Botanical Garden

To enrich life by perpetuating tropical plants, ecosystems and cultural heritage through discovery, scientific research, conservation, and education.

Environment

The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International

Behavior Analyst Certification Board Inc

We protect consumers of behavior analysis services by systematically establishing, promoting, and disseminating professional standards.

Employment

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Naples Botanical Garden Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Dre Project. 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

83 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. 83 of the 107 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

81/83

Grantees still filing

58/83

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Philanthropy$1,918,800Other$1,783,612Human Services$493,707Education$232,500Environment$186,415International$134,500Public Benefit$105,000

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

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.

Santa Barbara FoundationCA37.5× affinity17 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Santa Barbara Foundation · Ann Jackson Family Foundation · Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · The Lucky One Foundation · Williams-Corbett Foundation · The Little One Foundation · June G Outhwaite Charitable Trust JS Poucher KL Englert & CM Cooney Co-Tr · Patricia Bragg Foundation · The Corwith Fund · Tony and Kyra Rogers Foundation · The B & B Foundation · G a Fowler 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 Yellow-Crowned Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Yellow-Crowned Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

7get no government money at all

13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%

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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home