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The Louis and Vivian Vance Family Charitable 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.

$27k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
1
Grants FY2025
2
Organizations funded FY2024
50%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$27,445
Largest grant, FY2025
$27,445
Organizations funded a year
1 to 2
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$486k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 50% of the organizations The Louis and Vivian Vance Family Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 38% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHousing & ShelterOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving1$27k100%
FY20242$26k50%
FY20231$24k100%
FY20221$32k0%
FY20211$30k100%
FY20201$28k100%
FY20191$25k0%
FY20182$27k100%
82% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$73kHealth$62kHousing & Shelter$59kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Hfcc Inc$59,21322%
Thrivewell Cancer Foundation$46,59120%
St Mark Catholic Church$24,3011n/a
Pilgrim Center of Hope Inc$21,7001n/a
Hope Hits Harder$10,00012%
San Antonio Lifetime Recovery Inc Dba Lifetime Recovery$5,00010%

Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($77k), not named here.

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.

San Antonio Area Foun…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
San Antonio Area FoundationTX13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: San Antonio Area Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

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About The Louis and Vivian Vance Family Charitable Foundation

How much does The Louis and Vivian Vance Family Charitable Foundation give?
The Louis and Vivian Vance Family Charitable Foundation reported 1 grants totaling $27,445 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 2 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does The Louis and Vivian Vance Family Charitable Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (30%), Health (25%), Housing & Shelter (24%).
Who are The Louis and Vivian Vance Family Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Hfcc Inc ($59k), Thrivewell Cancer Foundation ($47k), St Mark Catholic Church ($24k).
Does The Louis and Vivian Vance Family Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Louis and Vivian Vance Family Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Louis and Vivian Vance Family Charitable Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include San Antonio Area Foundation, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
Where is The Louis and Vivian Vance Family Charitable Foundation based?
The Louis and Vivian Vance Family Charitable Foundation is based in TX.

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 8 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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