Michigan · Private foundation
Young Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $988k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 12
- Grants FY2024
- 16
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 31%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $296,636
- Organizations funded a year
- 11 to 16
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 3
- Total assets, FY2024
- $9.4M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 31% of the organizations Young Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $190k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 12 | $988k | 17% |
| FY2023 | 16 | $1.5M | 31% |
| FY2022 | 14 | $1.2M | 29% |
| FY2021 | 14 | $1.4M | 21% |
| FY2020 | 13 | $523k | 8% |
| FY2019 | 13 | $972k | 15% |
| FY2018 | 16 | $655k | 44% |
| FY2017 | 11 | $713k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Detroit Mercy | $1,570,000 | 7 | 0% |
| University of Michigan | $1,272,000 | 7 | 74% |
| Breakthrough T1d | $610,100 | 5 | 0% |
| The Detroit Institute of Arts | $565,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Vista Maria | $430,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Ypsilanti District Library | $400,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Detroit Cristo Rey High School Inc | $250,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Cristo Rey Network | $125,000 | 1 | 2% |
| The Futures Foundation | $100,000 | 1 | 16% |
| Next Level Scholars | $85,434 | 2 | n/a |
Show all 24 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.2M), 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 19 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: DTE Energy Foundation · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Children's Hospital of Michigan Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Young Family Foundation
- How much does Young Family Foundation give?
- Young Family Foundation reported 12 grants totaling $988,136 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 16 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Young Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (47%), Health (30%), Arts & Culture (7%).
- Who are Young Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: University of Detroit Mercy ($1.6M), University of Michigan ($1.3M), Breakthrough T1d ($610k).
- Does Young Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 31% 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 DTE Energy Foundation, Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan, Children's Hospital of Michigan Foundation.
- Where is Young Family Foundation based?
- Young Family Foundation is based in MI.
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