· Private foundation
Yusko Family 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.
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 $10k28 grants · $113k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $85k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TABLE | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME | $15,000 |
| EAST CHAPEL HILL SCHOOL ATHLETICS | $15,000 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| YOSEMITE CONSERVANCY | $10,000 |
| BOOK HARVEST | $10,000 |
| ST THOMAS MORE | $6,000 |
| SMILE TRAIN | $5,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL AND EASTERN NC | $5,000 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL | $5,000 |
| ACTION AGAINST HUNGER USA | $5,000 |
| PUBLIC SCHOOL FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| MARION CHEEK JACKSON CENTER FOR SAVING AND MAKING HISTORY | $5,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE | $5,000 |
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, $222k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 92% 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
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 16% of Yusko Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 65% of the giving stays in NC; by stated purpose, 60%.
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 +54% since the first grant, against +43% for those funded once.
45 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 14 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, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $98k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
TABLE MINISTRIES INC8× · 2017–2025 · $164k · revenue +320%
DUKE UNIVERSITY2× · 2018–2025 · $30k · revenue +41%
BOOK HARVEST5× · 2018–2025 · $25k · revenue +463%
Funded once
- EGEVERYTOWN GUN CONTROL SUPPORT FUNDone grant, 2021 · $10k
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF EASTERN OKLAHOMAone grant, 2021 · $10k
EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVEone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue -66%
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.
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Water.org's goal is to bring safe water and sanitation to the world through access to small, affordable loans.
Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…
The north carolina biotechnology center aids the biotechnology-related efforts of researchers, businesses, state and federal governments, and other agencies primarily through awards of grants and loans related to specific programs and…
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Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
For over 60 years, counterpart international has partnered with communities worldwide to turn local ideas into lasting solutions, connecting local vision with global opportunity. (continued on schedule o)we believe people closest to the…
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…
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How this is measured
54 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 54 of the 90 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 TABLE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BOOK HARVEST ↗
- Who funds PORCH INC ↗
- Who funds Marian Cheek Jackson Center ↗
- Who funds Habitat for Humanity Orange County NC Inc ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS ORANGE COUNTY NC ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds FIRST GRADUATE ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds Larkin Street Youth Services ↗
- Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS CLUB OF WAKE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC ↗
- Who funds INTER-FAITH COUNCIL FOR SOCIAL SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR THE POOR INC ↗
- Who funds YOSEMITE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WATER FOR PEOPLE ↗
- Who funds COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC ↗
- Who funds THE NORTH CAROLINA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS WEST ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds CAROLINA FOR KIBERA INC ↗
- Who funds Christmas House 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: Triangle Community Foundation Inc · United Way of the Greater Triangle Inc · Strowd Roses Inc · Bertsch Family Charitable Foundation Inc · The Mary Duke Biddle Foundation Missionpost Pmb #101 · Carlson Family Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · Duke Energy Foundation · Shared Visions Foundation Inc · Duke University Health System Inc · Carolinas Credit Union Foundation · Duke University
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Yusko Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Yusko Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
- Food for the Poor Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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