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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
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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.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationHealthHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentEnvironmentHousing & ShelterOther
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 arriving12$988k17%
FY202316$1.5M31%
FY202214$1.2M29%
FY202114$1.4M21%
FY202013$523k8%
FY201913$972k15%
FY201816$655k44%
FY201711$713kn/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$3.8MHealth$2.4MArts & Culture$605kYouth Development$546kHuman Services$520kPublic Safety & Disaster$60kReligion$50kPhilanthropy$45kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
MI
OH
MD
TN
DC
FL

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
University of Detroit Mercy$1,570,00070%
University of Michigan$1,272,000774%
Breakthrough T1d$610,10050%
The Detroit Institute of Arts$565,00070%
Vista Maria$430,00031%
Ypsilanti District Library$400,0002n/a
Detroit Cristo Rey High School Inc$250,0005n/a
Cristo Rey Network$125,00012%
The Futures Foundation$100,000116%
Next Level Scholars$85,4342n/a
Show all 24 grantees
All grantees of Young Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
University of Detroit Mercy$1,570,00070%
University of Michigan$1,272,000774%
Breakthrough T1d$610,10050%
The Detroit Institute of Arts$565,00070%
Vista Maria$430,00031%
Ypsilanti District Library$400,0002n/a
Detroit Cristo Rey High School Inc$250,0005n/a
Cristo Rey Network$125,00012%
The Futures Foundation$100,000116%
Next Level Scholars$85,4342n/a
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches$50,00010%
Wolverine Human Services$50,00050%
Roman Catholic Archdiocese Of Nassau FOUNDATION INC (RCAN FOUNDATION)$50,00013%
Mercy High School$45,0001n/a
Hope Medical Clinic Inc$40,00030%
Grand Haven Christian School$31,00031%
Michigan State University$30,0003n/a
Ele's Place Inc$27,50070%
College for Creative Studies$25,00010%
Wilson Health Foundation$20,00011%
Ducks Unlimited Inc$20,00010%
Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc$15,00010%
Life Directions$10,00011%
Forgotten Harvest Inc$5,00010%

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.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUniversity of Detroit Mercy: $1,570,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetUniversity of Michigan: $1,272,000 over 7y, 74% of budgetBreakthrough T1d: $610,100 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetThe Detroit Institute of Arts: $565,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetVista Maria: $430,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetCristo Rey Network: $125,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetThe Futures Foundation: $100,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWolverine Human Services: $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetRoman Catholic Archdiocese Of Nassau FOUNDATION INC (RCAN FOUNDATION): $50,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetHope Medical Clinic Inc: $40,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetGrand Haven Christian School: $31,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetEle's Place Inc: $27,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetCollege for Creative Studies: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWilson Health Foundation: $20,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetDucks Unlimited Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLife Directions: $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetForgotten Harvest Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 19.

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.

DTE Energy FoundationMI17.5× affinity6 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Young Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Young Family 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 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.

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 36 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-PF 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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