William Young
Profile Summary
William Young is a Michigan-based U.S. billionaire in manufacturing, born in 1941, with an estimated net worth of ~$2.6B RTB.
Business & SEC Activity
SEC EDGAR records for William D. Young list 63 insider filings and 2,126 full-text filing hits, with filings associated with SmartFinancial, Equity LifeStyle Properties, Praxis Precision Medicines, Franklin Resources, and Energy Recovery SEC EDGAR. The recent filings include Form 4 reports from 2021 through June 2025 and a Form 3 filed in October 2020. Form 3 is an initial disclosure of ownership by a company insider, while Form 4 reports subsequent changes in that insider's ownership or transactions SEC EDGAR.
Philanthropy
Three Young Foundation filings for tax year 2023 reported combined assets of $5,564,558 and combined grants paid of $332,002 ProPublica 990. The Bloomfld Hls, Michigan foundation reported $4,751,406 in assets and $252,720 in grants; the Vienna, Virginia foundation reported $546,534 in assets and $64,318 in grants; and the Tucson, Arizona foundation reported $266,618 in assets and $14,964 in grants ProPublica 990.
Political Activity
FEC records show at least 100 federal contributions; the figures below cover only the most recent 100 contributions on file, dated July 29–31, 2026, while the FEC reports 32,287 contributions in total FEC. Those sampled contributions totaled $6,777.86: $6,696.86 was classified as Unknown, $56 had no party listed, and $25 went to Democrats FEC. The largest sampled recipients were the Federal Express Political Action Committee ($4,700), Political Action by Coors Employees ($400), UnitedHealth Group Incorporated Political Fund ($346.02), AAI Corporation Political Action Committee ($260), and US Oncology Inc Good Government Committee ($235.32) FEC.
These donations are matched to this person by name only, so some may belong to a different person with the same name: FEC filings can include a donor's employer and city, but our matching does not check them against what we know about this person.
U.S. Presence
Philanthropy
Foundations are matched to a person by name, not by trustee records — so a same-surname family foundation can land here in error. Every entity below links to its full IRS filing; if one doesn’t belong, tell us at hello@skylarkcreations.com and we’ll pull it.
Political Contributions
These figures cover the 100 most recent of 32,287 federal contributions on file, not the full record. The total, party split, top recipients and dates below are all computed over that sample, so each is a floor rather than a complete figure.
By Party (in the sample)
Every party in this sample is listed here. The bars are rounded for display; unrounded they total exactly $6,777.86.
Top Recipients (in the sample)
Matched by name only. These donations are matched to this person by name only, so some may belong to a different person with the same name: FEC filings can include a donor's employer and city, but our matching does not check them against what we know about this person.
SEC Filings
Associated Companies
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Recent Insider Filings
Score Breakdown
The giving score is a weighted average of 2 components. The formula is open and versioned — the weight percentages below show how much each component contributes to the final score.
Evidenced charitable giving — built on what they actually give each year, not parked assets. Dominated by generosity (annual giving relative to net worth — the share of your fortune you give), plus the absolute scale of that giving, plus a small nudge for signing the Giving Pledge (a commitment, not a realized action).
Data: ProPublica 990 charitable disbursements, net worth, The Giving Pledge registry
How much sourced public record we hold about this person — net worth, SEC filings, foundation 990s, news coverage, Wikidata. It measures our coverage, not how open the person is. Each further kind of record scores higher, up to eight. Political donation records matched to a person by name alone are not counted: they may belong to someone else with the same name. From October 7, 2026, our own AI-written summary and the profile photo are not counted either — neither is a public record — so grades that leaned on them moved down that day.
Data: SEC EDGAR, ProPublica 990s, GDELT / NewsAPI, Wikidata
Formula (v2): Giving score = 65% x Philanthropy + 35% x Data coverage
Scored on 10/16/2026 on a 0–100 scale. The score uses only the signals we have populated data for. Goal Impact, Controversy, and Community Approval are deferred until that data exists — Phase 1 goal adoption, controversy detection, and community votes respectively.
All data is sourced from public records. Each section links to its original source.