· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
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 +63% since the first grant, against +36% for those 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- 2C2LIFE COMMUNITIES INC9× · 2017–2025 · $121k · revenue +992%
- JFJEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $100k · revenue +32%
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%
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.
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…
How this is measured
21 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. 21 of the 33 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 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 ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Young-Rourke Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Young-Rourke Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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