· Private foundation
Young 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, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $2k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEW CITY CHURCH | $20,000 |
| REFORMED THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY | $20,000 |
| LOCAL CHURCH | $10,000 |
| CAMPUS CRUSADE | $650 |
| MCLEAN PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| MISSION TO THE WORLD | $500 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES | $250 |
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 (FY21–23, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 29% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 +15% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.
13 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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; $250 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- NCNEWCITY CHURCH INC5× · 2021–2025 · $84k
- LCLOCAL CHURCH5× · 2021–2025 · $67k
- MPMCLEAN PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH6× · 2020–2025 · $45k
Funded once
- VHVILLAGE HOPE INTERNATIONAL MINISTRIESone grant, 2022 · $10k
- MTMISSION TO NORTH PURCHASEone grant, 2024 · $10k
- CCRUone grant, 2021 · $6k
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.
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…
As part of the body of Christ, to see that every young person in every people group in every nation has the opportunity to make an informed decision to be a follower of Jesus Christ and become a part of the local church.
Charis Bible Colleges, Inc. (CBC) was established to train and equip individuals to carry out the Gospel of Jesus Christ through practical application through mentoring, training, and teaching.
Reformation Bible College exists to provide a place for learning devoted to serving both laymen and pastors, offering both undergraduate and graduate degree programs based on Reformed Christian doctrine.
To equip young leaders throughout Central and Eastern Europe to fulfill Christ's commission through the local church.
Christian ministry
The Master's University and Seminary (TMUS) exists to advance the Kingdom of the Lord Jesus Christ through education. This is accomplished through unreserved commitment to worshipping God, authority of Scripture, personal holiness, serving…
Regent University serves as a center of Christian thought and action to provide excellent education through a Biblical perspective and global context equipping Christian leaders to change the world.
Lakelight Institute equips Christians with timeless wisdom for modern life.
Asbury Theological Seminary is a community called to prepare theologically educated, sanctified, Spirit-filled men and women to evangelize and to spread scriptural holiness throughout the world through the love of Jesus Christ, in the…
Simplifying ministry HR through education, expertise and specialized services so that churches can grow a healthy and thriving staff.
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 35 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 REFORMED THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY ↗
- Who funds REACH ACROSS ↗
- Who funds Christian Counseling & Educational Foundation ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds Project Belong VA ↗
- Who funds Wheaton College ↗
- Who funds Life Network ↗
- Who funds Ronald McDonald House Global ↗
- Who funds COMMISSIONED BY CHRIST ↗
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: Servant Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · 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 Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Young Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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