Bill B Young Foundation
Council Grove, KS · EIN 48-1161082. Reported 76 grants totalling $536,402 to 41 recipients across tax years 2021-2025. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.
Does this foundation accept applications?
Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Bill B Young Foundation did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.
How big are its grants?
The median grant is $3,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $2,000 and $6,500; the smallest was $500 and the largest $63,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by name and state as they were written on the returns, so an organization entered under two different names appears twice. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which that name received money.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Council Grove Life Center | Council Grove, KS | $204,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Council Grove Riverwalk | Council Grove, KS | $55,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| City of Council Grove Riverwalk Park Committee | Council Grove, KS | $24,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Friends of Kaw | Council Grove, KS | $20,700 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| City of Council Grove | Council Grove, KS | $16,667 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| CASA of the 8TH Judicial District Inc | Council Grove, KS | $16,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Council Grove Area Foundation | Council Grove, KS | $14,300 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Morris County Hospital | Council Grove, KS | $14,000 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| White Memorial Camp | Council Grove, KS | $14,000 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| Council Grove Police Department | Council Grove, KS | $12,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Council Grove Community Arts Council | Council Grove, KS | $11,834 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| Council Grove Public Library | Council Grove, KS | $11,500 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Council Grove Juniorsenior High School | Council Grove, KS | $10,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| City of Council Grove Santa Fe Trail Committee | Council Grove, KS | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Historic Preservation Corporation | Council Grove, KS | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Morris County Youth Rodeo | Council Grove, KS | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Council Grovemorris Co Chamber | Council Grove, KS | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Morris County Historical Society | Council Grove, KS | $7,450 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| Morris County Care & Share | Council Grove, KS | $7,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Morris County Core Coalition | Council Grove, KS | $7,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Friends of the Kaw Heritage Inc | Council Grove, KS | $5,500 | 2 | 1 | 2021 |
| Washunga Day Committee | Council Grove, KS | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Council Grove Senior Center | Council Grove, KS | $4,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| First Baptist Church | Council Grove, KS | $4,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Building Blocks Community Child Care | Council Grove, KS | $3,850 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Council Grove Pride | Council Grove, KS | $3,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Usd 417 | Council Grove, KS | $3,500 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Council Grove Wrestling Club | Council Grove, KS | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Council Grove Area Trade & Tourism | Council Grove, KS | $2,620 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Heart of the Flint Hills | Council Grove, KS | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Live Well | Council Grove, KS | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Morris County Core Coalition (after Prom Committee) | Council Grove, KS | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Council Grove Community Theatre | Council Grove, KS | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Morris County Hunter Education | Council Grove, KS | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Council Grove Softball Club | Council Grove, KS | $1,750 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Flint Hills Community Band | Council Grove, KS | $1,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Community Mentoring | Council Grove, KS | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Council Grove Swim Club | Council Grove, KS | $731 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Community Table (for the Benefit of Diversicare Residence) | Council Grove, KS | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Council Grove Chamber of Commerce | Council Grove, KS | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Council Grove Fire & Rescue | Council Grove, KS | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
15 of 41 (37%) received money in more than one year over the 5 years we hold.
Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 65%, across 4 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is about typical. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.
- Council Grove Life Center
Pool improvements & program support - City of Council Grove Riverwalk Park Committee
CONSTRUCTION OF PHASE TWO OF THE RIVERWALK AMPHITHEATER COMPLEX, THE BUILDING OF THE RESTROOM BUILDING, INCLUDING A SNACK CATERING KITCHEN AND DIRECTION BOOTH AT THE BACK OF THE AMPHITHEATER SEATING. - Council Grove Juniorsenior High School
FUNDS TO SUPPORT PROJECTS OUTSIDE THE SCHOOL BUDGETED ACTIVITIES. - Friends of Kaw
Pow Wow and program support - City of Council Grove Santa Fe Trail Committee
PROVIDE FUNDING FOR THE UPCOMING SANTA FE TRAIL 200TH YEAR ANNIVERSARY - Council Grove Community Arts Council
Summer youth & program support
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 22 grants where we could match the recipient to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's. The match, made from the name and address on the return, is ours.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 14 | $102,500 | $3,250 |
| 2022 | 13 | $111,134 | $2,600 |
| 2023 | 15 | $106,100 | $2,500 |
| 2024 | 16 | $107,070 | $2,560 |
| 2025 | 18 | $109,598 | $4,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.
Where its money goes
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Funders that support the same organizations
These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.
How to approach this foundation
- Check you are its size. The median grant is $3,000. A request many times that size asks for something it has rarely or never given.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Kansas.
- Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
- Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.
Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Bill B Young Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2021-2025). Grant figures are from its returns. Matching recipients to registered organizations, their IRS classifications, the retention rate and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations, described in how we build this.
Address of record on the latest return: Po Box C, Council Grove, KS, 66846. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.
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