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The Vanadium Charitable Foundation

To provide financial assistance to worthy causes

$28k
Granted FY2020
19
Grants FY2020
19
Organizations funded FY2020
84%
First-time grantees FY2020
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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

3
’18
4
’19
12
’20
1
’21
6
’22

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Median grant, FY2020
$500
Largest grant, FY2020
$6,000
Organizations funded a year
3 to 19
FY2018 to FY2020
States reached, FY2020
2
Total assets, FY2020
$311

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2020, 84% of the organizations The Vanadium Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 62% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20
HealthEducationHuman ServicesScience & TechYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureOther
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
FY202019$28k84%
FY20194$21k75%
FY20183$23kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2022.

Recreation & Sports$57kEducation$52kHuman Services$27kYouth Development$24kHealth$19kInternational$10kEmployment$1kPhilanthropy$1kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2022, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 21 grantees

Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($4k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Vanadium Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGlen Cove Boys & Girls Club at Lincoln House Inc: $23,125 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetBook Fairies Inc: $17,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetGreen Vale School: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFriends Academy: $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCarol M Baldwin Breast Cancer Research Fund of Central New York Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetFamily and Children's Association Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEducate Bwindi: $10,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetLa Scuola D Italia-Guglielmo Marconi: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBone Marrow & Cancer Foundation Inc: $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetColgate University: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBlood Cancer United Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCold Spring Harbor Laboratory: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt Francis Hospital: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGlen Cove Hospital: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of America: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMystic Seaport Museum Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRoad Runners Club of America Inc: $295 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited States Fund for Unicef: $264 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBoomer Esiason Foundation: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 19.

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.

The New York Community TrustNY15× affinity5 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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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How do I get to The Vanadium Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Vanadium Charitable 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.

About The Vanadium Charitable Foundation

How much does The Vanadium Charitable Foundation give?
The Vanadium Charitable Foundation reported 19 grants totaling $27,525 in its FY2020 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 19 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2020.
What does The Vanadium Charitable Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2022, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (30%), Education (27%), Human Services (14%).
Who are The Vanadium Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2022: Glen Cove Boys & Girls Club at Lincoln House Inc ($23k), Book Fairies Inc ($17k), Green Vale School ($15k).
Does The Vanadium Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2020, 84% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Vanadium Charitable Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The New York Community Trust, The Bahnik Foundation Inc, The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc.
Where is The Vanadium Charitable Foundation based?
The Vanadium Charitable Foundation is based in NY.

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 29 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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