· Private foundation
Growing the Vison of Light Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF PUEBLO | $150,000 |
| SAINT PETER'S CATHOLIC CHURCH | $100,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $886k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +74% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 1 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, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $150k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation3× · 2017–2020 · $190k · revenue +74%- DNDEAR NEIGHBOR MINISTRIES INC3× · 2018–2021 · $165k · revenue +245%
- CDCATHOLIC DIOCESE OF PUEBLO FOUNDATION INC2× · 2017–2018 · $131k · revenue +412% · 26% of their budget
Funded once
DEAN MCGEE EYE INSTITUTEone grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +1%- CDCATHOLIC DIOCESE OF WICHITAone grant, 2018 · $50k
- KFKANSAS FOODBANK WAREHOUSE INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +36%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…
We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.
Helping people move to a better life through hope-filled care, services, and advocacy; calling all those of goodwill to join us
Guided by our values, Catholic Charities North Dakota serves people in need and advocates for the common good of all.
Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.
See schedule o:asco is a professional oncology society committed to conquering cancer through research, education, and promotion of the highest quality patient care.
The mission of the dominican hospital foundation is to ensure that philanthropic resources are available to respond to and support the changing health care needs of the people within the area served by dignity health dba dominican…
We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.
In response to god's call to love our neighbor, catholic charities of the archdiocese of omaha enables the works of mercy to be received and lived.
Support the mission and social services programs of catholic charities of the archdiocese of omaha, inc.
The mission of advocate health care is to serve the health needs of individuals, families and communities through a wholistic philosophy rooted in our fundamental understanding of human beings as created in the image of god.
Catholic Charities Bloomington is committed to enhancing the availability of quality mental health services in the communities it serves. We do this through the delivery of professional mental health education and counseling on a sliding…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Pueblo Inc and the most unlike its peers is Newman University Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 24 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF PUEBLO INC ↗
- Who funds Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation ↗
- Who funds DEAR NEIGHBOR MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF PUEBLO FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Center of Hope Inc ↗
- Who funds DEAN MCGEE EYE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds KANSAS FOODBANK WAREHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds OKLAHOMA HEART HOSPITAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WICHITA WOMEN'S INITIATIVE NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds GREELEY COUNTY HEALTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds NEWMAN UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Growing the Vison of Light Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation — 31% of income from government
- Dean Mcgee Eye Institute — 1% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.