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The Van Vleet 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 |
|---|---|
| Museum of Natural History | $3,000 |
| Shalom Park | $3,000 |
| Denver Art Museum | $3,000 |
| Childrens Hospital Foundation | $2,500 |
| MS Society | $1,000 |
| Morris Animal Foundation | $1,000 |
| Kings Christian Academy | $500 |
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 (FY17–25, $24k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 48% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
27 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- TFThe Festival at Sandpoint Inc5× · 2017–2024 · $27k · revenue +68%
- KHKOOTENAI HUMANE SOCIETY INC6× · 2019–2024 · $25k · revenue +69%
- CHChildren's Hospital Colorado Foundation8× · 2018–2025 · $17k · revenue +37%
Funded once
- HIHeifer Internationalone grant, 2021 · $3k
- MLMT LEMMON SKY CENTER-UNIV OF AZone grant, 2017 · $3k
- MLMt Lemmon Sky Centerone grant, 2021 · $2k
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.
Idaho Animal Rescue Network is a 501(c)(3) non-profit based in Idaho that works in Idaho and Eastern Washington to educate, advocate, and network with other rescues and law enforcement in Idaho regarding animal cruelty and neglect. We are…
The mission is to protect and care for homeless animals in the Dillon and Beaverhead county area.
The mission of the Idaho Humane Society (IHS) is to advocate for the welfare and responsible care of animals, protect them from neglect and cruelty, and promote humane education, awareness and compassion for all living creatures.
The organization provides animal care, animal shelter and adoption opportunities for thousands of dogs and cats located in the city of twin falls, idaho and in the surrounding in the city of twin falls, idaho and in the surrounding
Columbia Gorge Humane Society is committed to promoting healthy, safe and lifelong relationships between people and their pets through sustainable programs of education, adoption and spay/neutering. We will endeavor to fight for the abused…
The mission of the Bingham County Humane Society is to advocate for the humane treatment of animals, responsible pet ownership, and companion animal sterilization.
To promote humane treatment of animals
Providing positive life changing solutions to people and animals in need.
Clark county humane society (cchs) is dedicated to promoting a more humane world through: operating a no-kill shelter, adopting out homeless cats & dogs, low cost spay/neuter services, humane education, reducing pet overpopulation,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Kempe Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Kootenai Humane Society Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
21 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. 21 of the 36 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 The Festival at Sandpoint Inc ↗
- Who funds KOOTENAI HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation ↗
- Who funds PRIEST RIVER ANIMAL RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds SHALOM PARK ↗
- Who funds DENVER ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds ANGELS OVER SANDPOINT ↗
- Who funds MORRIS ANIMAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds IDAHO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SECOR ↗
- Who funds LEXINGTON PARK CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Friends of the Shelter Inc dba Better Together Animal Alliance ↗
- Who funds CHAFFEE CARES ↗
- Who funds BONNER COMMUNITY FOOD CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Bonner General Hospital Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE PALOUSE ↗
- Who funds PARAGON SERVICE DOGS ↗
- Who funds THE KEMPE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FEED HOPE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds PEND OREILLE ARTS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds Panida Theater Committee 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: Innovia Foundation · Idaho Community Foundation Inc · Community Assistance League Inc · Equinox Foundation Inc · The Avista Foundation · The Robert I Wishnick Foundation Dba the William Wishnick Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Network for Good · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 Vleet 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.
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.
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