California · Private foundation
Young Family 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.
- $31k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 11
- Grants FY2025
- 11
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 27%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $6,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 11
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $746k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 27% of the organizations Young Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 11 | $31k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 11 | $26k | 27% |
| FY2023 | 8 | $26k | 63% |
| FY2022 | 8 | $27k | 13% |
| FY2021 | 8 | $26k | 38% |
| FY2020 | 6 | $34k | 67% |
| FY2019 | 4 | $20k | 50% |
| FY2018 | 4 | $20k | 0% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Equal Justice Initiative | $36,500 | 6 | 0% |
| San Francisco Community Clinic Consortium | $20,500 | 4 | 0% |
| American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc | $19,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $15,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Our Town St Helena | $12,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Habitat for Humanity | $11,000 | 2 | 27% |
| California Fire Foundation | $8,600 | 6 | 0% |
| For the Girls Inc | $7,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Tipping Point Community | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Chronicle Season of Sharing Fund | $4,900 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 14 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Equal Justice Initiative | $36,500 | 6 | 0% |
| San Francisco Community Clinic Consortium | $20,500 | 4 | 0% |
| American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc | $19,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $15,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Our Town St Helena | $12,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Habitat for Humanity | $11,000 | 2 | 27% |
| California Fire Foundation | $8,600 | 6 | 0% |
| For the Girls Inc | $7,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Tipping Point Community | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Chronicle Season of Sharing Fund | $4,900 | 2 | 0% |
| Abortion Care Network | $3,000 | 2 | 0% |
| California Academy of Sciences | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Community Action of Napa Valley | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Peninsula Open Space Trust | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($97k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Young Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 14 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Young Family Foundation
- How much does Young Family Foundation give?
- Young Family Foundation reported 11 grants totaling $31,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 11 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Young Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Civil Rights (21%), Crime & Legal (15%), Health (13%).
- Who are Young Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Equal Justice Initiative ($37k), San Francisco Community Clinic Consortium ($21k), American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc ($19k).
- Does Young Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Young Family 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 Young Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include American Online Giving Foundation Inc, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
- Where is Young Family Foundation based?
- Young Family Foundation is based in CA.
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