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The Van Blyenburgh Family 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.

$20k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fund
0187% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Arts & Culture$58kReligion$39kPhilanthropy$31kRecreation & Sports$24kEducation$8kInternational$6kCrime & Legal$5kCommunity Improvement$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$1,250
Median grant
4
States reached
$19k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CC UNITED SOCCER CLUB$10,000
ARTS OF LIFE INC$2,500
CRAZY HORSE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION$2,500
OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL$1,250
ENCIRCLED$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
PROJECT ONE GOAL$1,000
ST HUBERT CATHOLIC CHURCH & SCHOOL$250
02The need
03

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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 62% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ST HUBERT CATHOLIC CHURCH & SCHOOL: $10k → 5%MACPHAIL CENTER FOR MUSIC: $675 → 11%TWIN CITIES PBS: $540 → 14%GO FUND ME - PROJECT WINTER CAMP JAMAICA 2019: $3k → 7%US PAN ASIAN AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $5k → 14%MIA HAMM FOUNDATION: $9k → 11%TEAM FIRST SOCCER ACADEMY: $1k → 13%YELLOW RIBBON SUICIDE PREVENTION PROGRAM: $800 → 10%THOMPSON SCHOOL DISTRICT: $3k → 11%ALASKA CHRISTIAN COLLEGE: $5k → 11%ARTS OF LIFE INC: $13k → 14%VIRGINIA HISPANIC COMMITTEE: $4k → 6%CATHOLIC CHARITIES USA: $5k → 9%NATIVE AMERICAN HERITAGE: $3k → 10%THE VALENTINE: $2k → 22%CRAZY HORSE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $3k → 9%CC UNITED SOCCER CLUB: $10k → 5%ENCIRCLED: $5k → 11%TWIN CITIES PBS: $540 → 14%MIA HAMM FOUNDATION: $8k → 11%THE ARTS OF LIFE INC: $10k → 14%NATIVE AMERICAN HERITAGE ASSOCIATION: $3k → 10%CRAZY HORSE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $3k → 9%CC UNITED SOCCER CLUB: $10k → 5%ENCIRCLED: $4k → 11%MIA HAMM FOUNDATION: $8k → 11%THE ARTS OF LIFE INC: $5k → 14%NATIVE AMERICAN HERITAGE: $1k → 10%CRAZY HORSE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $3k → 9%ST HUBERT CATHOLIC CHURCH & SCHOOL: $4k → 5%ENCIRCLED: $3k → 11%MIA HAMM FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%THE ARTS OF LIFE INC: $5k → 14%ST HUBERT CATHOLIC CHURCH & SCHOOL: $3k → 5%ENCIRCLED: $1k → 11%ARTS OF LIFE INC: $5k → 14%ST HUBERT CATHOLIC CHURCH & SCHOOL: $3k → 5%ARTS OF LIFE INC: $5k → 14%HENRICO CASA: $3k → 9%ARTS OF LIFE INC: $3k → 14%VIRGINIA CENTER FOR INCLUSIVE COMMUNITIES: $2k → 9%OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL: $3k → 14%OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL: $3k → 14%OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL: $1k → 14%ART WORKS PROJECTS: $3k → 14%PROJECT ONE GOAL: $5k → 14%PROJECT ONE GOAL: $1k → 14%PROJECT ONE GOAL: $1k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$157k · 11 repeat orgs$39k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +17% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.

11 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
20

Total granted

$157k
$39k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+13%

Still filing today

73%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
Arts & CultureCivil RightsRecreation & SportsReligionCrime & LegalPhilanthropyOther

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

  • TA
    THE ARTS OF LIFE INC
    7× · 2018–2025 · $46k · revenue +138%
  • MH
    MIA HAMM FOUNDATION
    4× · 2019–2023 · $30k · revenue +9%
  • CU
    CC UNITED SOCCER CLUB INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $20k · revenue +27%

Funded once

  • UP
    US PAN ASIAN AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -18%
  • AC
    ALASKA CHRISTIAN COLLEGE
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +7%
  • CC
    CATHOLIC CHARITIES USA
    one grant, 2017 · $5k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
2
University of Virginia Investment Management Company

The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).

Education
3
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
4
Vpm Media Corporation

To use the power of media to educate, entertain and inspire, using public television and public radio to make a positive impact on the communities throughout central virginia, charlottesville, the shenandoah valley, the northern neck and…

Arts & Culture
5
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

6
United States Telecom Association

See schedule oustelecom exists to ensure members can compete, grow and thrive to build a world where families, enterprises and communities are connected through the power of broadband.our member companies have committed a considerable…

7
Northern Virginia Technology Council Inc

The mission of the northern virginia technology council (nvtc) is to accelerate tech innovation and promote a world class workforce. nvtc connects, educates, advocates and celebrates the region's thriving tech ecosystem.

8
National Alliance of Concurrent Enrollment Partnerships Inc

Advancing a national community to foster equity in dual and concurrent enrollment through accreditation, advocacy, research, and professional development.

Education
9
DePauw University

Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…

Education
10
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

11
Virginia Society of Certified Public Accountants

The vscpa's mission is to empower the cpa profession to thrive. the mission supports our vision for the cpa profession to be champions of change, drivers of innovation, trusted visionary leaders, and relationship builders. the vscpa unites…

12
Council of Independent Colleges

The council of independent colleges is an association of nonprofit independent colleges and universities, state- based councils of independent colleges, and other higher education affiliates, that works to support college and university…

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Opportunity International Inc D/B/a Opportunity International-Us and the most unlike its peers is Henrico County Court Appointed Special Advocates Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%10%5–10yr19%10%10–20yr16%45%20–35yr13%20%35–55yr16%15%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%12%5–10yr19%5%10–20yr16%65%20–35yr13%12%35–55yr16%7%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/20
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,545

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

18 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 32 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
13/18
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE ARTS OF LIFE INC — $46,300 · Arts & CultureTHE ARTS OF LIFE INCCRAZY HORSE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION — $7,500 · Arts & CultureCRAZY HORSE MEMORIAL FOUNDATIONART WORKS PROJECTS — $2,500 · Arts & Culture+3 more — $3,570 · Arts & Culture+3 moreST HUBERT CATHOLIC CHURCH & SCHOOL — $21,806 · OtherST HUBERT CATHOLIC CHURCH & SCHOO…PROJECT ONE GOAL — $7,000 · OtherPROJECT ONE GOALUS PAN ASIAN AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE — $5,000 · OtherUS PAN ASIAN AMERICAN CHAMBER OF …CATHOLIC CHARITIES USA — $5,000 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES USAIndividual grant recipient — $3,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient — $3,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientGO FUND ME - PROJECT WINTER CAMP JAMAICA 2019 — $2,550 · OtherTHOMPSON SCHOOL DISTRICT — $2,500 · OtherNative American Heritage Association — $2,500 · Other+9 more — $5,330 · Other+9 moreMIA HAMM FOUNDATION — $30,130 · PhilanthropyMIA HAMM FOUNDATI…CC UNITED SOCCER CLUB INC — $20,000 · Recreation & SportsCC UNITED S…+1 more — $50 · Recreation & SportsENCIRCLED — $12,000 · ReligionENCIRCLEDALASKA CHRISTIAN COLLEGE — $5,000 · ReligionALASKA CH…OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL INC D/B/A OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL-US — $6,335 · InternationalHENRICO COUNTY COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES INC — $2,500 · Civil RightsVirginia Center for Inclusive Communities — $2,250 · Civil Rights
Arts & Culture$59,870Other$58,686Philanthropy$30,130Recreation & Sports$20,050Religion$17,000International$6,335Civil Rights$4,750

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE ARTS OF LIFE INC — $46,300 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetMIA HAMM FOUNDATION — $30,130 over 4y, 10% of budgetCC UNITED SOCCER CLUB INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetENCIRCLED — $12,000 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetCRAZY HORSE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION — $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL INC D/B/A OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL-US — $6,335 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUS PAN ASIAN AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE — $5,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetALASKA CHRISTIAN COLLEGE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNative American Heritage Association — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetART WORKS PROJECTS — $2,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHENRICO COUNTY COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetVirginia Center for Inclusive Communities — $2,250 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE VALENTINE MUSEUM — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION INC — $1,395 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetVIRGINIA MENTORING PARTNERSHIP — $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMACPHAIL CENTER FOR MUSIC — $675 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNETWORK FOR GOOD — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWelles Park Parents Association — $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

The Chicago Community TrustIL11.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 The Van Blyenburgh Family 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Van Blyenburgh Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Van Blyenburgh Family 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 32 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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