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The Vance Family Foundation at a glance

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The Vance Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$352k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$175k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$1.3MRecreation & Sports$1.1MReligion$975kPublic Safety & Disaster$135kAnimals$70kFood & Nutrition$50kPublic Benefit$26kYouth Development$25kOther$0
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $500
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $52k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $300k
$30,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$7.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SEABREEZE CHURCH$175,000
ROADRACING WORLD ACTION FUND INC$125,000
ALFIE'S KITTEN RESCUE$30,000
HUNTINGTON BEACH HIGH SCHOOL$21,500
SAN PEDRO PENINSULA CANCER GUILD$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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 32% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%PET VET HELPING HANDS INC: $10k → 10%ROADRACING WORLD ACTION FUND INC: $125k → 11%NHRA VISION: $33k → 14%AMYLOIDOSIS FOUNDATION: $15k → 8%BRAKES: $275k → 8%PRO FLAT TRACK AMA ROOKIE CLASS OF 79 AND FRIENDS FUND: $25k → 11%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB: $25k → 10%ROADRACING WORLD ACTION FUND INC: $10k → 11%SAN PEDRO PENINSULA CANCER GUILD: $5k → 14%BRAKES: $250k → 8%PRO FLAT TRACK AMA ROOKIE CLASS OF 79 AND FRIENDS FUND: $15k → 11%MATER DEI HIGH SCHOOL: $10k → 10%SAN PEDRO PENINSULA CANCER GUILD: $500 → 14%BRAKES: $250k → 8%PRO FLAT TRACK AMA ROOKIE CLASS OF 79 AND FRIENDS FUND: $5k → 11%BRAKEN S KITCHEN INC: $50k → 10%NATIONAL HOT ROD ASSOCIATION: $350k → 14%BRAKES: $250k → 8%SEABREEZE CHURCH: $250k → 10%NATIONAL HOT ROD ASSOCIATION: $350k → 14%BRAKES: $10k → 8%SEABREEZE CHURCH: $250k → 10%NATIONAL HOT ROD ASSOCIATION: $350k → 14%SEABREEZE CHURCH: $175k → 10%SEABREEZE CHURCH: $150k → 10%SEACLIFF ELEMENTARY: $115k → 10%HUNTINGTON BEACH HIGH SCHOOL: $106k → 10%SEACLIFF ELEMENTARY: $100k → 10%SEABREEZE CHURCH: $100k → 10%HUNTINGTON BEACH HIGH SCHOOL: $50k → 10%SEABREEZE CHURCH: $50k → 10%HUNTINGTON BEACH HIGH SCHOOL: $45k → 10%CITY OF HUNTINGTON BEACH: $26k → 10%HUNTINGTON BEACH HIGH SCHOOL: $22k → 10%HUNTINGTON BEACH HIGH SCHOOL: $12k → 10%HUNTINGTON BEACH HIGH SCHOOL: $11k → 10%HUNTINGTON BEACH HIGH SCHOOL: $10k → 10%SERVITE HS: $25k → 10%ALFIE'S KITTEN RESCUE: $30k → 10%ALFIE'S KITTEN RESCUE: $20k → 10%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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.8M · 9 repeat orgs$254k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +17% since the first grant, against -1% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
10

Total granted

$3.8M
$254k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
-1%

Still filing today

56%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthPublic Safety & DisasterAnimalsPhilanthropyOther
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

  • NH
    NATIONAL HOT ROD ASSOCIATION
    3× · 2019–2023 · $1.1M · revenue +3%
  • PO
    PUT ON THE BRAKES INC
    5× · 2017–2022 · $1.0M · revenue +11%
  • RW
    ROADRACING WORLD ACTION FUND
    2× · 2023–2024 · $135k · revenue +19% · 43% of their budget

Funded once

  • JC
    JESSI COMBS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -29% · 26% of their budget
  • BK
    Brackens Kitchen Incgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +435%
  • NV
    NHRA VISION
    one grant, 2022 · $33k · revenue -31%
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
Vintage Auto Racing Association

Vintage auto events for its members

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2
Keeping Racing Alive
Recreation & Sports
3
The Brett Downey Safety Foundation

To increase safety awareness in riders, parents, track owners and promoters; make the sport of motorcross as safe as possible, minimizing injuries

Public Safety & Disaster
4
Museum of American Speed
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5
Motorsport Safety Foundation Corp
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6
The Mark Donohue Foundation Inc
Youth Development
7
West Coast Stock Car Hall of Fame
Arts & Culture
8
Women in Motorsports North America Inc

Women in Motorsports North Americas mission is to advance opportunities for women in motorsports, connect individuals and organizations that actively support women in motorsports through initiatives and enable internships, mentorships and…

Recreation & Sports
9
New York Racing Association Foundation
Animals
10
Drag Racing Association of Women

Financial and emotional support for drag racers, crew members, and their families for death or injuries suffered while participating in the sport.

Recreation & Sports
11
Barber Vintage Motorsports Museum
Arts & Culture
12
Redding Dragstrip

Race track operations for the public and youth.

Recreation & Sports
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Hot Rod Association; the most unlike its peers is San Pedro Peninsula Cancer Guild. 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

10 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. 10 of the 19 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
6/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NATIONAL HOT ROD ASSOCIATION: $1,050,000 · OtherNATIONAL HOT ROD ASSOCIATIONSEABREEZE CHURCH: $975,000 · OtherSEABREEZE CHURCHHUNTINGTON BEACH HIGH SCHOOL: $254,755 · OtherHUNTINGTON BEACH HIGH SCHOOLIndividual grant recipient: $215,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient+9 more: $234,409 · Other+9 morePUT ON THE BRAKES INC: $1,035,000 · EducationPUT ON THE BRAKES INCJESSI COMBS FOUNDATION: $50,000 · EducationROADRACING WORLD ACTION FUND: $135,000 · Public Safety & DisasterALFIES KITTEN RESCUE: $50,000 · AnimalsTHE AMYLOIDOSIS FOUNDATION: $15,000 · HealthSAN PEDRO PENINSULA CANCER GUILD: $5,500 · Philanthropy
Other$2,729,164Education$1,085,000Public Safety & Disaster$135,000Animals$50,000Health$15,000Philanthropy$5,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNATIONAL HOT ROD ASSOCIATION: $1,050,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetPUT ON THE BRAKES INC: $1,035,000 over 5y, 12% of budgetROADRACING WORLD ACTION FUND: $135,000 over 2y, 43% of budgetJESSI COMBS FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetBrackens Kitchen Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetPRO FLAT TRACK AMA ROOKIE CLASS OF '79 AND FRIENDS FUND: $45,000 over 3y, 9.7% of budgetNHRA VISION: $33,009 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetSAN PEDRO PENINSULA CANCER GUILD: $5,500 over 2y, 2.4% 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.

  • Who funds NATIONAL HOT ROD ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds PUT ON THE BRAKES INC ↗
  • Who funds ROADRACING WORLD ACTION FUND ↗
  • Who funds JESSI COMBS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ALFIES KITTEN RESCUE ↗
  • Who funds Brackens Kitchen Inc ↗
  • Who funds PRO FLAT TRACK AMA ROOKIE CLASS OF '79 AND FRIENDS FUND ↗
  • Who funds NHRA VISION ↗
  • Who funds THE AMYLOIDOSIS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SAN PEDRO PENINSULA CANCER GUILD ↗

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.

Paypal Charitable Giv…Network for GoodThe Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Paypal Charitable Giving FundDC7.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Vance Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Vance Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    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.

    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 19 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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