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Young 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VHL ALLIANCE | $2,779 |
| BRAZIL FOUNDATION | $2,750 |
| Planned Parenthood AZ | $1,188 |
| MECP2 Duplication Foundation | $1,000 |
| Patronato San Xavier | $1,000 |
| Youth on Their Own | $900 |
| Pima Council on Aging | $600 |
| Chrons & Colitis Foundation of America | $600 |
| SISTER JOSE WOMENS CENTER | $500 |
| Breast Cancer Research Foundation | $500 |
| SO OTHERS MIGHT EAT | $379 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS USA INC | $367 |
| EDGE HIGH SCHOOL | $200 |
| Community Food Bank | $200 |
| Primavera Foundation | $200 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 86% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +53% since the first grant, against -7% for the ones you funded once.
22 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $600 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- VAVHL ALLIANCE INC5× · 2018–2024 · $9k · revenue +48%
- BFBRAZIL FOUNDATION3× · 2020–2024 · $7k · revenue +95%
- PSPATRONATO SAN XAVIER7× · 2017–2024 · $7k · revenue +70%
Funded once
- NANOAH'S ARK RESCUE PROJECT AND SANCTUARYone grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue -8%
- FFFOUNDATION FOR SCALABLE INNOVATIONSgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue +78%
- PLPolestar LGBT Community Centerone grant, 2022 · $2k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The foundation for sarcoidosis research (fsr) is the leading international organization dedicated to finding a cure for sarcoidosis and improving care for sarcoidosis patients through research, education, and support. since its…
To end hunger and transform the health of our community by providing nourishment to those in need by acquiring and distributing safe nutritious food via local agencies and by providing education to solve hunger and nutritional problems in…
United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.
Food Rescue - The Organization rescues excess fresh food from Bay Area businesses, schools and non-profits and immediately delivers the food to safety net partners - such as senior housing centers, after-school programs, and homeless…
The Sierra Fund (TSF) is a non-profit organization with a mission to restore ecosystem and community resiliency in the Sierra Nevada.
Project Open Hand's mission is to improve health outcomes and quality of life by providing nutritious meals to the sick and vulnerable, caring for and educating our community.
Mission statement: mission: caring for our patients first and our people always. vision: to be the most comprehensive, integrated and connected health system for getting and staying well. values: excellence - we deliver high-quality,…
Address the homeless crisis in California.
Second harvest food bank's mission is to end hunger and malnutrition by educating and involving the community.
Fistula Foundation works to end the suffering caused by the childbirth injury obstetric fistula by getting as many women treated as possible. Additionally, the Foundation is focused on increasing the number of trained obstetric fistula…
San Francisco CASA transforms the lives of children and youth traumatized and displaced in the foster care and related systems by providing one consistent, caring volunteer advocate, trained to address each childs needs in the court and…
Silicon Valley Community Foundation (SVCF) connects people, ideas and resources to ensure equity and opportunity for all.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sierra Club Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Noah's Ark Rescue Project and Sanctuary. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
26 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 26 of the 39 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds VHL ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds BRAZIL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PATRONATO SAN XAVIER ↗
- Who funds The Rogue Theatre ↗
- Who funds SPONDYLITIS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds MECP2 DUPLICATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YOUTH ON THEIR OWN ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds The Primavera Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NOAH'S ARK RESCUE PROJECT AND SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR SCALABLE INNOVATIONS ↗
- Who funds ST ANDREW'S CHILDREN'S CLINIC ↗
- Who funds Sister Jose Women's Center ↗
- Who funds Yolo Crisis Nursery ↗
- Who funds YOLO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Community Food Bank Inc ↗
- Who funds SHWACHMAN-DIAMOND SYNDROME FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOME INC ↗
- Who funds Pima Council on Aging ↗
- Who funds Explorit Science Center ↗
- Who funds EXTENDED HANDS OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds OXFAM-AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds Central Texas Food Bank Inc ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Southern Arizona · The Hs Lopez Family Foundation · The Intuit Foundation · Arizona Community Foundation · Connie Hillman Family Foundation · United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona Inc · Texas Instruments Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Network for Good · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Young Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Oxfam-America Inc — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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