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The Vanadium Charitable Foundation at a glance

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The Vanadium Charitable Foundation

To provide financial assistance to worthy causes

$28k
Granted FY2020
19
Grants FY2020
2
States reached
$6k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

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

3
’18
4
’19
12
’20
1
’21
6
’22

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

01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2020 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$500
Median grant
2
States reached
$311
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FRIENDS ACADEMY$6,000
FAMILY & CHILDREN'S ASSOCIATION$5,000
THE GREEN VALE SCHOOL$5,000
COLGATE UNIVERSITY$3,000
COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY$1,000
LUEKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY$1,000
COLGATE FUND$1,000
WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE$1,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF AMERICA$500
SEAWANHAKA CORINTHIAN YACHT CLUB EMPLOYEE FUND$500
GLEN COVE HOSPITAL$500
MEADOWBROOK CLUB EMPLOYEE FUND$500
BONE MARROW AND CANCER FOUNDATION$500
ST FRANCIS HOSPITAL$500
MYSTIC SEAPORT MUSEUM$500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%FAMILY & CHILDREN'S ASSOCIATION: $5k → 6%THE BOOK FAIRIES: $17k → 6%FAMILY & CHILDREN'S ASSOCIATION: $5k → 6%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

48%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$66k · 5 repeat orgs$70k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
2

Total granted

$66k
$559

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
+55%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 13% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $42k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22
EducationHealthYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesScience & TechArts & 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.

Backed again, and grew

  • GC
    GLEN COVE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB AT LINCOLN HOUSE INC
    2× · 2018–2019 · $23k · revenue +36%
  • GV
    GREEN VALE SCHOOL
    2× · 2018–2020 · $15k · revenue +2%
  • FA
    FRIENDS ACADEMY
    2× · 2020–2022 · $12k · revenue +11%

Funded once

  • RR
    ROAD RUNNERS CLUB OF AMERICA INC
    one grant, 2019 · $295 · revenue +13%
  • UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEFgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $264 · revenue +55%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
University of New Haven

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…

Education
2
Stony Brook Childrens Services University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
3
Boston Architectural College

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

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4
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
5
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
6
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
7
Stony Brook Orthopedic Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
8
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
9
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
Brooklyn Law School

To provide students with the knowledge, skills, ethical values needed for a career in law.

Education
11
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
12
University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Friends Academy; 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.
04the grantee network

21 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
16/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

University of Notre Dame du Lac: $56,000 · EducationUniversity of Notre Dame du LacGREEN VALE SCHOOL: $15,000 · EducationGREEN VALE SCHOOLFRIENDS ACADEMY: $12,000 · EducationFRIENDS ACADEMYEDUCATE BWINDI: $10,000 · EducationEDUCATE BWINDILA SCUOLA D ITALIA-GUGLIELMO MARCONI: $10,000 · EducationLA SCUOLA D ITALIA-GUGLIELMO MARCONIROBIN HOOD PTO INC: $6,412 · EducationROBIN HOOD PTO INC+1 more: $3,000 · EducationBOOK FAIRIES INC: $17,000 · Human ServicesBOOK FAIRIES IN…FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S ASSOCIATION INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY AND CHIL…GLEN COVE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB AT LINCOLN HOUSE INC: $23,125 · Youth DevelopmentGLEN COVE BOY…+1 more: $500 · Youth DevelopmentCAROL M BALDWIN BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FUND OF CENTRAL NEW YORK INC: $10,000 · HealthCAROL M BA…BONE MARROW & CANCER FOUNDATION INC: $5,500 · HealthBONE MARRO…BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $1,000 · HealthBLOOD CANC…+3 more: $1,250 · Health+3 moreWESTCHESTER DAY SCHOOL: $5,250 · OtherWEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE: $1,000 · OtherCOLGATE FUND: $1,000 · OtherMEADOWBROOK CLUB EMPLOYEE FUND: $500 · OtherSEAWANHAKA CORINTHIAN YACHT CLUB EMPLOYEE FUND: $500 · OtherTHE UNION LEAGUE CLUB EMPLOYEE FUND: $325 · Other+4 more: $1,009 · OtherCOLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY: $1,000 · Science & TechMYSTIC SEAPORT MUSEUM INC: $500 · Arts & Culture
Education$112,412Human Services$27,000Youth Development$23,625Health$17,750Other$9,584Science & Tech$1,000Arts & Culture$500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $56,000 over 1y, 0.0% of 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
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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 Communit…The Bahnik Foundation…The Bank of America C…National Philanthropi…The Blackbaud Giving …Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Vanadium Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Vanadium Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Mystic Seaport Museum Inc: 5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
5report 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, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

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.

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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