· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ACLU FOUNDATIONS | $6,500 |
| EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE | $5,500 |
| CHRONICLE SEASON OF SHARING | $3,000 |
| I SUPPORT THE GIRL | $3,000 |
| OUR TOWN ST HELENA | $2,500 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS ST HELENA | $2,500 |
| POST | $2,000 |
| ABORTION CARE NETWORK | $2,000 |
| SF COMMUNITY CLINIC CONSORTIUM | $2,000 |
| CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES | $1,000 |
| CALIFORNIA FIRE FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +21% since the first grant, against +7% for those funded once.
19 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SFSan Francisco Community Clinic Consortium4× · 2019–2022 · $21k · revenue +21%
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC3× · 2020–2022 · $19k · revenue +65%
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC2× · 2017–2018 · $15k · revenue +98%
Funded once
- TPTIPPING POINT COMMUNITYone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue -1%
- CACOMMUNITY ACTION OF NAPA VALLEYone grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue +7%
- POPENINSULA OPEN SPACE TRUSTgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +106%
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.
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.
Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…
Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
The bar association of san francisco champions equal access to justice and promotes humanity, excellence, and diversity in the legal profession. we provide legal services to disadvantaged and underserved individuals in san francisco. we…
To distribute public affairs and other educational information in order to create an electronic bridge between californians and their public officials, and, in the process educate a new generation of voting citizens and civic leaders who…
A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…
The AIA California, in collaboration with local components, is the voice of the architectural profession.
The San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory is dedicated to the conservation of birds and their habitats through science and outreach.
To attract, develop, and retain business in san francisco.
To lead california communities in wildfire risk reduction and resiliency.
The american civil liberties union of northern california (aclu nc union) defends and advances the principles of freedom, equality and justice contained in the united states constitution. aclu nc union, a california mutual benefit…
Amazon conservation unites science, people, and innovation to protect the amazon - the greatest wild forest on earth. as guardians of the most iconic forest on the planet, we bring together the power of the latest science and technology…
How this is measured
14 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. 14 of the 22 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds San Francisco Community Clinic Consortium ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds OUR TOWN ST HELENA ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA FIRE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds For the Girls Inc ↗
- Who funds TIPPING POINT COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds CHRONICLE SEASON OF SHARING FUND ↗
- Who funds ABORTION CARE NETWORK ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION OF NAPA VALLEY ↗
- Who funds PENINSULA OPEN SPACE TRUST ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Young Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Young Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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