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The C George Van Kampen Foundation at a glance

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The C George Van Kampen 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.

$69k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$39k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$110kAnimals$56kHealth$37kSocial Science$32kInternational$25kEnvironment$4kArts & Culture$3kFood & Nutrition$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $59k
$20,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$683k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PAINTED DOGS RESEARCH TRUST$39,250
BOSTON UNIVERSITY$20,000
GAIT THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER$7,500
MONITA LIFE CENTERS$2,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 47% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%GAIT THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER: $8k → 9%MONITA LIFE CENTERS: $3k → 11%SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST: $200 → 10%CAMFED USA: $100 → 10%MILKEN INSTITUTE: $13k → 14%THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY: $3k → 17%PEACEFUL VALLEY DONKEY RESCUE: $1k → 13%THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE UNITED STATES: $2k → 14%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $3k → 14%SUSSEX COUNTY FARM AND HORSE SHOW: $1k → 6%COMMUNITY FOODBANK OF NJ: $53 → 10%NATIONAL WILDLIFE FOUNDATION: $500 → 6%NATURE CONSERVANCY: $2k → 7%HIMALAYAN CATARACT PROJECT: $50 → 9%GAIT THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER: $7k → 9%PAINTED DOGS RESEARCH TRUST: $39k → 10%MILKEN INSTITUTE: $13k → 14%NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY: $3k → 17%WORLD WILDLIFE FUND: $1k → 14%FEEDING AMERICA: $100 → 14%SUSSEX COUNTY FARM AND HORSE SHOW: $1k → 6%GAIT THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER: $5k → 9%PAINTED DOGS RESEARCH TRUST: $5k → 10%RAND CORPORATION: $1k → 14%WOMEN'S PROJECT AND PRODUCTIONS INC: $3k → 17%WORLD WILDLIFE FUND: $1k → 14%GAIT THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER: $5k → 9%PAINTED DOGS RESEARCH TRUST: $5k → 10%KELLOGG FINNET INC: $5k → 17%THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE UNITED STATES: $1k → 14%GAIT THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER: $4k → 9%KELLOGG FINNETT: $3k → 17%CATO INSTITUTE: $250 → 14%GAIT THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER: $4k → 9%MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: $600 → 17%GAIT THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER: $4k → 9%JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NEW YORK: $25k → 17%KELLOGG FINNETT: $3k → 17%ASPCA: $1k → 17%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.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
NH
IL
NY
PA
NJ
CA
VA
DC
TX
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$235k · 10 repeat orgs$37k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against +33% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
15

Total granted

$235k
$35k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+33%

Still filing today

70%
87%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
AnimalsInternationalPublic BenefitEducationArts & CultureFood & NutritionOther
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

  • TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2021–2025 · $95k · revenue +24%
  • TM
    THE MILKEN INSTITUTE
    2× · 2017–2018 · $25k · revenue +387%
  • The Rand Corporation
    3× · 2017–2020 · $7k · revenue +34%

Funded once

  • JA
    JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NEW YORK INC
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +2%
  • Northwestern Universitygraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $3k · revenue +33%
  • WP
    WOMEN'S PROJECT & PRODUCTIONS INC
    one grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue -8%
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
Institute for Agriculture & Trade Policy

Iatp works locally and globally at the intersection of policy and practice to ensure fair and sustainable food, farm and trade systems.

Food & Nutrition
2
Conservation International Foundation

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

Environment
3
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
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
Animal Wellness Action

To prevent cruelty to animals, we promote enacting and enforcing good public policies. enacting good laws depends upon electing good lawmakers, and we remind voters which candidates care about and support animal issues.

Human Services
6
Climate Institute

The climate institute is organized for the purpose of educating the general public and policy makers as to the gravity of potential climate change, exploring the policy implications of the latest scientific findings on climate modelling…

Environment
7
American Humane Association

Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…

Animals
8
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
9
Rainforest Alliance Inc

RA works at the intersection of business, agriculture & forests to improve lives & protect nature by transforming how land is used, production of goods & consumer choices.

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10
World Animal Protection

World animal protection is a global organization working to end factory farming and wildlife exploitation. we expose cruel systems, promote animal-friendly alternatives, and influence policy change. for over 75 years, we've been rewriting…

Animals
11
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
12
Panthera Corporation

Panthera's mission is the conservation of the world's 40 wild cat species, many of which are endangered or threatened. panthera develops, implements and oversees wild cat conservation strategies on a global scale.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations; the most unlike its peers is Gait Therapeutic Riding Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

22 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. 22 of the 27 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)
21/22
Grantees still filing
17/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $95,000 · OtherTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITYPAINTED DOGS RESEARCH TRUST: $49,250 · OtherPAINTED DOGS RESEARCH TRUSTTHE MILKEN INSTITUTE: $25,000 · OtherTHE MILKEN INSTITUTEKellogg FinNet Inc: $10,000 · Other+9 more: $10,303 · Other+9 moreGAIT THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER: $36,500 · EducationGAIT THERAPEUTIC …The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations: $5,000 · EducationThe New York Publ…JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NEW YORK INC: $25,000 · InternationalJUNIOR ACH…+2 more: $150 · InternationalThe Rand Corporation: $7,000 · Public BenefitCATO INSTITUTE: $250 · Public BenefitHumane World for Animals Inc: $3,000 · AnimalsPeaceful Valley Donkey Rescue Inc: $1,000 · AnimalsTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $1,000 · AnimalsNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $500 · AnimalsWOMEN'S PROJECT & PRODUCTIONS INC: $2,500 · Arts & CultureMuseum of Modern Art: $600 · Arts & CultureNorthwestern University: $2,500 · Recreation & Sports
Other$189,553Education$41,500International$25,150Public Benefit$7,250Animals$5,500Arts & Culture$3,100Recreation & Sports$2,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $95,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGAIT THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER: $36,500 over 7y, 2.9% of budgetTHE MILKEN INSTITUTE: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NEW YORK INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetKellogg FinNet Inc: $10,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetThe Rand Corporation: $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHumane World for Animals Inc: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN'S PROJECT & PRODUCTIONS INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art: $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCATO INSTITUTE: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAMFED USA FOUNDATION: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc: $53 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHIMALAYAN CATARACT PROJECT INC: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetONEGOAL: $50 over 1y, 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 The C George Van Kampen Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The C George Van Kampen Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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.
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How do I get to The C George Van Kampen Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The C George Van Kampen Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 27 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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