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York Foundation

To support educational, cultural, religious and charitable activities.

$3.6M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
1
Grants FY2024
1
Organizations funded FY2022
0%
First-time grantees FY2022
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Median grant, FY2024
$3,575,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$3,575,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 6
FY2017 to FY2022
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$76M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2022, 0% of the organizations York Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22
EducationReligionCrime & LegalOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving1$3.6M0%
FY20221$9.8M0%
FY20211$6.0M100%
FY20206$3.6M33%
FY20192$50k100%
FY20185$1.1M80%
FY20176$495kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$19MReligion$4.6MInternational$280kCivil Rights$225kHealth$10kCrime & Legal$10k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
VA
MD
TN
DC
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Fairfax University of America$19,375,000374%
International Institute of Islamic Thought the Fairfax Institute$4,499,999225%
Mosul Support Foundation$200,0001n/a
Millions of Conversations Inc$150,000154%
Syrian Emergency Task Force$80,000311%
American Muslim Information Center$75,0001n/a
Universal School$40,0001n/a
Universal School Donation$20,0001n/a
All Dulles Area Muslim Society$20,0001n/a
Interfaith Conference of Metropolit$15,00021%
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All grantees of York Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Fairfax University of America$19,375,000374%
International Institute of Islamic Thought the Fairfax Institute$4,499,999225%
Mosul Support Foundation$200,0001n/a
Millions of Conversations Inc$150,000154%
Syrian Emergency Task Force$80,000311%
American Muslim Information Center$75,0001n/a
Universal School$40,0001n/a
Universal School Donation$20,0001n/a
All Dulles Area Muslim Society$20,0001n/a
Interfaith Conference of Metropolit$15,00021%
Cordoba House$15,00023%
Peaceful Families Project$10,00017%
Ikram Foundation$10,0001n/a
Make-A-Wish Foundation of the Mid-Atlantic Inc$10,00010%
The Islamic Seminary of America$10,00012%

Where it is load-bearing

York Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 9 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFairfax University of America: $19,375,000 over 3y, 74% of budgetInternational Institute of Islamic Thought the Fairfax Institute: $4,499,999 over 2y, 25% of budgetMillions of Conversations Inc: $150,000 over 1y, 54% of budgetSyrian Emergency Task Force: $80,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetInterfaith Conference of Metropolit: $15,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetCordoba House: $15,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetPeaceful Families Project: $10,000 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetMake-A-Wish Foundation of the Mid-Atlantic Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Islamic Seminary of America: $10,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 9.

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.

Sterling Charitable Gift FundVA20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sterling Charitable Gift Fund · Barzinji Family Foundation · International Institute of Islamic Thought the Fairfax Institute · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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.

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How do I get to York Foundation?

Find your warmest path to York Foundation 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.

About York Foundation

How much does York Foundation give?
York Foundation reported 1 grants totaling $3,575,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 6 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2022.
What does York Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (79%), Religion (19%), International (1%).
Who are York Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Fairfax University of America ($19M), International Institute of Islamic Thought the Fairfax Institute ($4.5M), Mosul Support Foundation ($200k).
Does York Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2022, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as York Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Sterling Charitable Gift Fund, Barzinji Family Foundation, International Institute of Islamic Thought the Fairfax Institute.
Where is York Foundation based?
York Foundation is based in VA.

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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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