Massachusetts · Private foundation
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.
- $293k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 22
- Grants FY2025
- 20
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 10%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $9,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $110,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 17 to 22
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.4M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 10% of the organizations Young-Rourke Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 20 | $171k | 5% |
| FY2024 | 20 | $169k | 10% |
| FY2023 | 19 | $153k | 5% |
| FY2022 | 22 | $192k | 23% |
| FY2021 | 18 | $267k | 22% |
| FY2020 | 17 | $137k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 17 | $136k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 18 | $136k | 0% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2life Communities Inc | $121,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Jewish Family & Children's Service Inc | $100,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Museum of Science | $89,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Museum of Fine Arts | $85,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Wellesley College | $85,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Summer Search | $84,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Jewish Family Service of Metrowest Inc | $81,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc | $80,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Worcester Polytechnic Institute | $59,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Beth El Temple Center of Belmont Inc | $52,240 | 9 | n/a |
Show all 21 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2life Communities Inc | $121,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Jewish Family & Children's Service Inc | $100,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Museum of Science | $89,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Museum of Fine Arts | $85,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Wellesley College | $85,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Summer Search | $84,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Jewish Family Service of Metrowest Inc | $81,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc | $80,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Worcester Polytechnic Institute | $59,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Beth El Temple Center of Belmont Inc | $52,240 | 9 | n/a |
| The Second Step Inc | $50,000 | 9 | 0% |
| More Than Words Inc | $42,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Jewish Vocational Service Inc | $39,000 | 4 | 0% |
| American Jewish Committee | $39,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Macalester College | $35,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Washington University | $35,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Gann Academy the New Jewish High School of Greater Boston Inc | $34,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Boston Book Festival Inc | $30,000 | 9 | 2% |
| Center for Eye Research and Education Inc | $26,500 | 8 | 4% |
| Cradles to Crayons Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Community Rowing Inc | $3,000 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($320k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Young-Rourke Charitable Trust supplied at peak.
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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: 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
How this is measured
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About Young-Rourke Charitable Trust
- How much does Young-Rourke Charitable Trust give?
- Young-Rourke Charitable Trust reported 22 grants totaling $292,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 22 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Young-Rourke Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (32%), Human Services (17%), Health (12%).
- Who are Young-Rourke Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: 2life Communities Inc ($121k), Jewish Family & Children's Service Inc ($100k), Museum of Science ($90k).
- Does Young-Rourke Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Young-Rourke Charitable Trust 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-Rourke Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Boston Foundation Inc, Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc, Eastern Bank Foundation.
- Where is Young-Rourke Charitable Trust based?
- Young-Rourke Charitable Trust is based in MA.
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