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Younger 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.

$85k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
37
Grants FY2025
34
Organizations funded FY2024
3%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$12,000
Organizations funded a year
34 to 46
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
8
Total assets, FY2025
$1.4M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 3% of the organizations Younger Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationReligionArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving36$85k8%
FY202434$41k3%
FY202334$45k3%
FY202242$58k2%
FY202146$67k4%
FY202046$65k0%
FY201946$59k43%
FY201846$132k7%
94% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$133kReligion$107kPhilanthropy$100kArts & Culture$54kHuman Services$43kHealth$43kMembership Benefit$15kEnvironment$10kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
NY
MA
VA
AZ
TN
DC
MS
GA
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Marks Presbyterian Church$95,7669n/a
Lula Rich Educational Foundation Inc$35,00090%
Teach for America Inc$34,00090%
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$31,50090%
First Marks Cemetery Assn Inc$17,50073%
Regents School of Oxford Inc$12,00030%
French Camp Academy$11,50090%
Wounded Warrior Project Inc$8,50090%
Clarksdale Collegiate$6,50080%
B F Smith Foundation$6,50030%
Show all 27 grantees
All grantees of Younger Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Marks Presbyterian Church$95,7669n/a
Lula Rich Educational Foundation Inc$35,00090%
Teach for America Inc$34,00090%
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$31,50090%
First Marks Cemetery Assn Inc$17,50073%
Regents School of Oxford Inc$12,00030%
French Camp Academy$11,50090%
Wounded Warrior Project Inc$8,50090%
Clarksdale Collegiate$6,50080%
B F Smith Foundation$6,50030%
Palmer Home for Children$5,90090%
Samaritan's Purse$5,0001n/a
Reformed Theological Seminary$4,50090%
The Heritage Foundation$2,75060%
Mississippi Children's Home Society$2,75070%
Yoknapatawpha Arts Council Inc$2,00010%
William Cliff Heaton Jr Foundation$2,00012%
Lifeline Children's Services Inc$1,50050%
Spring Initiative Inc$1,50060%
Campus Crusade for Christ Inc$1,5006n/a
Griot Arts Inc$1,50060%
Metropolitan Museum of Art$1,35090%
African Bible Colleges Inc$1,25050%
St Elizabeth Catholic School$1,0002n/a
CaringBridge$75050%
Mid-South Public Communications Foundation$70070%
Bes Inc$50010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 49 recipients with no EIN on record ($315k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Younger Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLula Rich Educational Foundation Inc: $35,000 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $34,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $31,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetFirst Marks Cemetery Assn Inc: $17,500 over 7y, 2.8% of budgetRegents School of Oxford Inc: $12,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFrench Camp Academy: $11,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetWounded Warrior Project Inc: $8,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetClarksdale Collegiate: $6,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetB F Smith Foundation: $6,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetPalmer Home for Children: $5,900 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetReformed Theological Seminary: $4,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetThe Heritage Foundation: $2,750 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMississippi Children's Home Society: $2,750 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetYoknapatawpha Arts Council Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWilliam Cliff Heaton Jr Foundation: $2,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetLifeline Children's Services Inc: $1,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSpring Initiative Inc: $1,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGriot Arts Inc: $1,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMetropolitan Museum of Art: $1,350 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetAfrican Bible Colleges Inc: $1,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCaringBridge: $750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMid-South Public Communications Foundation: $700 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBes Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 23.

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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.

Graeber FoundationMS22.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Graeber Foundation · Community Foundation of Northwest Mississippi · Lewis a Graeber Trust · Van Devender Family Foundation William Van Devender Trustee · Ergon Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for Mississippi · Christian Community Foundation of Memphis · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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How do I get to Younger Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Younger Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Younger Foundation

How much does Younger Foundation give?
Younger Foundation reported 37 grants totaling $85,041 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 34 and 46 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Younger Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (25%), Religion (20%), Philanthropy (19%).
Who are Younger Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Marks Presbyterian Church ($96k), Lula Rich Educational Foundation Inc ($35k), Teach for America Inc ($34k).
Does Younger Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 3% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Younger Foundation 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 Younger Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Graeber Foundation, Community Foundation of Northwest Mississippi, Lewis a Graeber Trust.
Where is Younger Foundation based?
Younger Foundation is based in MS.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 78 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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