· Private foundation
The Vance Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $10,000 |
| SUNSHINE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $5,210 |
| PATHWAYS CLINIC | $5,000 |
| FLASH LOVE | $4,000 |
| LIBERTY BIBLE CHURCH | $2,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 82% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
9 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- PDPhi Delta Theta Foundation3× · 2017–2020 · $50k · revenue +12%
- ADALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC3× · 2017–2019 · $15k · revenue +40%
- YLYOUNG LIFE2× · 2017–2019 · $10k · revenue +59%
Funded once
- FFFaithful Friendsone grant, 2024 · $6k · revenue 0%
- WMWIDOWS MIGHTone grant, 2023 · $3k
- NCNORTHSIDE COMMUNITY CHURCHone grant, 2018 · $1k
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.
Sonlife Classic provides leadership coaching/mentoring, training events for church leaders, and disciple-making resources.
To encourage firefighters to live their lives for Jesus Christ
To promote personal growth and leadership development through Family and Consumer Sciences education Focusing on the multiple roles of family member wage earner and community leader members develop skills for life through character…
Our mission is to make a positive impact in our community through charitable work and unwavering support
For All Saints Team Ministries (FASTM) is a nonprofit Christian organization. Our vision is "Serve all saints, and all saints serve." To fulfill this vision, we, as Christians, are committed to serving our fellow believers by becoming…
Using fishing as our flagship activity, we provide inspiration, resources, and experiences aimed at helping fathers (and father figures) stay present and engaged in their children's lives - physically, emotionally, and spiritually -…
Gospel Family Ministries exists to strengthen family ministry in the local church and to cultivate family worship in the home. Our ministry seeks to equip families with a biblical vision of family ministry, a biblical passion for family…
Pregnancy Choices is a Christian ministry caring for those touched by unplanned pregnancy by providing options and resources that promote life.
Making charitable contributions on behalf of contributing firefighters.
Good samaritan foundation has encouraged charitable giving from the community since its establishment in 1969. the foundation supports the advancement of research, education and technology in medical science at legacy good samaritan…
To be a source of information and education to its members and to take a lead role in influencing issues and affecting the fire service.
We know the youth of today want to shape the world. Camp Fire provides the experience everyone needs to discover who they are - find their spark - and become a leader now. Our programs encourage personal exploration by incorporating a…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Life and the most unlike its peers is Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 16 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 Phi Delta Theta Foundation ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds Flash Love ↗
- Who funds Faithful Friends ↗
- Who funds Pathways Clinic ↗
- Who funds Sonshine Christian School ↗
- Who funds FOREST GROVE FIREFIGHTERS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds COAST GUARD AVIATION ASSOCIATION ANCIENT ORDER OF THE PTERODACTYL ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
Open a dossier: 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 Vance 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.