· Public charity
The Vanadium Charitable Foundation
To provide financial assistance to worthy causes
Read this first · the figures below need context
54% of The Vanadium Charitable Foundation’s FY2022 grant dollars went to University Of Notre Dame Du Lac, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2022 names 6 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2020, the last year The Vanadium Charitable Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 12 organizations, $28k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2022.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FRIENDS ACADEMY | $6,000 |
| FAMILY & CHILDREN'S ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| THE GREEN VALE SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| COLGATE UNIVERSITY | $3,000 |
| LUEKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY | $1,000 |
| COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY | $1,000 |
| WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE | $1,000 |
| COLGATE FUND | $1,000 |
| ST FRANCIS HOSPITAL | $500 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF AMERICA | $500 |
| GLEN COVE HOSPITAL | $500 |
| SEAWANHAKA CORINTHIAN YACHT CLUB EMPLOYEE FUND | $500 |
| MYSTIC SEAPORT MUSEUM | $500 |
| MEADOWBROOK CLUB EMPLOYEE FUND | $500 |
| BONE MARROW AND CANCER FOUNDATION | $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 (FY19–21, $27k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
5 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2020, 1 since wound down; 21 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call). Read against FY2020, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2022, 13% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $42k 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
- GCGLEN COVE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB AT LINCOLN HOUSE INC2× · 2018–2019 · $23k · revenue +36%
- GVGREEN VALE SCHOOL2× · 2018–2020 · $15k · revenue +2%
- FAFRIENDS ACADEMY2× · 2020–2022 · $12k · revenue +11%
Funded once
- RRROAD RUNNERS CLUB OF AMERICA INCone grant, 2019 · $295 · revenue +13%
UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEFgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $264 · revenue +55%
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.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
To provide students with the knowledge, skills, ethical values needed for a career in law.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Friends Academy and the most unlike its peers is University of Notre Dame du Lac. 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 49 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
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 29 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 University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
- Who funds GLEN COVE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB AT LINCOLN HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds BOOK FAIRIES INC ↗
- Who funds GREEN VALE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds CAROL M BALDWIN BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FUND OF CENTRAL NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds EDUCATE BWINDI ↗
- Who funds LA SCUOLA D ITALIA-GUGLIELMO MARCONI ↗
- Who funds ROBIN HOOD PTO INC ↗
- Who funds BONE MARROW & CANCER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COLGATE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY ↗
- Who funds ST FRANCIS HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds GLEN COVE HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds MYSTIC SEAPORT MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds ROAD RUNNERS CLUB OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds BOOMER ESIASON FOUNDATION ↗
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: The New York Community Trust · The Bahnik Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Vanadium Charitable 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.
- Mystic Seaport Museum Inc — 5% 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.
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