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Bruce and Jina Veaco Foundation at a glance

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Bruce and Jina Veaco 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.

$363k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

International$1.5MEducation$387kHealth$35kEnvironment$30kAnimals$30kRecreation & Sports$15kPhilanthropy$10kHuman Services$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $75k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $275k
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$3.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNICEF USA$150,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$75,000
UNICEF USA$50,000
ASPCA$25,000
WORLD WILDLIFE FUND$20,000
CEDARS-SINAI$10,000
BREAKTHROUGH T1D$10,000
SAINT JOHN'S HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATION$10,000
ANGELS NEST TLP$5,000
THE NATURE CONSERVANCY$5,000
PBS SOCAL$1,500
WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC$1,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY25–25, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ANGELS NEST TLP: $5k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 8% of Bruce and Jina Veaco Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Bruce and Jina Veaco Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 28% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.9M · 9 repeat orgs$104k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +11% since the first grant, against -88% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
4

Total granted

$1.9M
$67k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
-88%

Still filing today

89%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthInternationalPhilanthropyEducationAnimalsEnvironmentOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF
    8× · 2018–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +47%
  • TS
    THRIVE SCHOLARS
    5× · 2019–2024 · $325k · revenue +152%
  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    7× · 2018–2025 · $250k · revenue +89%

Funded once

  • SC
    SOUTH CENTRAL SCHOLARS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $50k
  • GP
    GATES PHILANTHROPY PARTNERS
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -88%
  • J
    JDRF
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
2
Target Als Foundation Inc

Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…

Education
3
Project Drawdown

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;…

Education
4
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
5
Management Sciences for Health Inc

(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.

International
6
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Fdn Group

Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.

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7
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
8
Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition

The mission of the global alliance for improved nutrition (gain) is to improve the consumption of healthier diets for all, especially the most vulnerable, by improving the availability, affordability, desirability, and sustainability of…

Food & Nutrition
9
African Wildlife Foundation Inc

Awf's mission is to ensure wildlife and wild lands thrive in modern africa. we work to equip african governments, institutions, business, and communities with the tools, insights, and support they need to define, own, and realize a…

Animals
10
National Science and Technology Medals Foundation Inc

The nstmf's mission is to build inclusive stem communities across the united states. fundamental to these communities are the significant, inspirational connections we foster between the individuals who have received national recognition…

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11
Nia Tero Foundation

Nia tero works alongside indigenous peoples to secure their guardianship of vital ecosystems. indigenous peoples are guardians of earth.(see schedule o)

Environment
12
Medtech Innovator

Medtech innovator organizes and runs a global competition and virtual accelerator for medical device, digital health, and diagnostic startup companies.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wikimedia Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Formidable Joy. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

14 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. 14 of the 19 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
6/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $1,230,000 · InternationalUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEFMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $250,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INCTHRIVE SCHOLARS: $325,000 · EducationTHRIVE SCHOLARS+1 more: $2,000 · EducationSOUTH CENTRAL SCHOLARS FOUNDATION: $50,000 · OtherST MARGARETS EPISCOPAL SCHOOL: $10,000 · OtherJDRF: $5,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $5,000 · OtherTHE RIVIERA TENNIS FOUNDATION: $15,000 · OtherANGEL'S NEST TLP: $5,000 · Other+2 more: $3,500 · OtherFORMIDABLE JOY: $38,000 · PhilanthropyGATES PHILANTHROPY PARTNERS: $10,000 · PhilanthropyTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $30,000 · AnimalsCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $10,000 · HealthBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $10,000 · HealthSAINT JOHN'S HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATION: $10,000 · HealthWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $25,000 · Environment
International$1,480,000Education$327,000Other$93,500Philanthropy$48,000Animals$30,000Health$30,000Environment$25,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $1,230,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHRIVE SCHOLARS: $325,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $250,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetFORMIDABLE JOY: $38,000 over 4y, 7.4% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE RIVIERA TENNIS FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGATES PHILANTHROPY PARTNERS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

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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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Bruce and Jina Veaco Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bruce and Jina Veaco Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    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 19 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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