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Young-Rourke Charitable Trust
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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $74k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $109k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $110k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY | $110,000 |
| BETH ISRAEL HOSPITAL | $20,000 |
| WORCEST POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE OFFICE OF ANNUAL GIVING | $15,000 |
| 2 LIFE COMMUNITIES | $12,000 |
| COMBINED JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES | $12,000 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF METROWEST | $10,000 |
| MUSEUM OF SCIENCE | $10,000 |
| JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER | $10,000 |
| JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE | $10,000 |
| MORE THAN WORDS | $10,000 |
| GANN ACADEMY | $9,500 |
| WELLESLEY COLLEGE | $8,500 |
| MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS | $8,500 |
| SUMMER SEARCH | $8,500 |
| JEWISH VOCATIONAL SERVICE | $8,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $81k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% 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.
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 +63% since the first grant, against +36% for the ones you funded once.
25 repeat relationships — 19 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- 2C2LIFE COMMUNITIES INC9× · 2017–2025 · $121k · revenue +992%
- JFJEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $100k · revenue +20%
MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS9× · 2017–2025 · $85k · revenue +29%
Funded once
- GAGANN ACADEMY - THE NEW JEWISH HIGH SCHOOL OF GREATone grant, 2021 · $17k
- CFCENTER FOR EYE RESEARCH Aone grant, 2021 · $6k
- CTCRADLES TO CRAYONS INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +36%
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 mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Mission strengthened by more than a century and a half of dedication to academic excellence, boston college commits itself to the highest standards of teaching and research in undergraduate, graduate and professional programs and to the…
Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
Organization's mission bentley university believes good business can impact more than the bottom line - it can change the world. bentley is a community of future business leaders who will deliver value in the marketplace and lasting…
Education and Research
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Family Service of Metrowest Inc and the most unlike its peers is Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 61 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
21 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. 21 of the 33 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 BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc ↗
- Who funds 2LIFE COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF SCIENCE ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS ↗
- Who funds Wellesley College ↗
- Who funds SUMMER SEARCH ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF METROWEST INC ↗
- Who funds BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE SECOND STEP INC ↗
- Who funds MORE THAN WORDS INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH VOCATIONAL SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds MACALESTER COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BOSTON BOOK FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR EYE RESEARCH AND EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds CRADLES TO CRAYONS INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ROWING 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: Boston Foundation Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · The Shapiro Foundation · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation 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-Rourke Charitable Trust 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Jewish Vocational Service Inc — 39% of income from government
- The Second Step Inc — 26% of income from government
- More Than Words Inc — 24% of income from government
- Brandeis University — 9% of income from government
- Worcester Polytechnic Institute — 8% of income from government
- 2LIFE Communities Inc — 8% of income from government
- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc — 6% of income from government
- Community Rowing Inc — 2% of income from government
- Cradles to Crayons Inc — 2% of income from government
- Boston Book Festival Inc — 2% of income from government
- Jewish Family & Children's Service Inc — 1% of income from government
- Wellesley College — 1% of income from government
- Museum of Science — 0% of income from government
- Museum of Fine Arts — 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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