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The Vance Foundation at a glance

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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.

$26k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Housing & Shelter$132kEducation$55kYouth Development$24kHealth$24kReligion$14kPublic Safety & Disaster$9kArts & Culture$1kInternational$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$378k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$10,000
SUNSHINE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL$5,210
PATHWAYS CLINIC$5,000
FLASH LOVE$4,000
LIBERTY BIBLE CHURCH$2,000
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 82% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $24k → 8%NORTHSIDE COMMUNITY CHURCH: $1k → 11%ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION: $5k → 12%HUMANITARIAN EXPERIENCE FOR YOUTH: $1k → 8%PHI DELTA THETA FOUNDATION: $20k → 12%FLASH LOVE: $4k → 9%PATHWAYS CLINIC: $5k → 10%COAST GUARD AVIATION ASSOCIATION: $1k → 8%HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $15k → 8%ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION: $5k → 12%PHI DELTA THETA FOUNDATION: $20k → 12%FLASH LOVE: $4k → 9%PATHWAYS CLINIC: $1k → 10%FOREST GROVE FIREFIGHTERS ASSOCIATION: $2k → 8%ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION: $5k → 12%PHI DELTA THETA FOUNDATION: $10k → 12%LIBERTY BIBLE CHURCH: $7k → 9%HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $26k → 12%LIBERTY BIBLE CHURCH: $4k → 9%HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $17k → 12%SUNSHINE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $5k → 9%HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $15k → 12%LIBERTY BIBLE CHURCH: $2k → 9%HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $15k → 12%HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $10k → 12%HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $10k → 12%OREGON DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES - MIDTOWN CHILD WELFARE: $500 → 12%FAITHFUL FRIENDS: $6k → 12%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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$242k · 9 repeat orgs$17k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
6

Total granted

$242k
$12k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
+115%

Still filing today

67%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureEducationOther
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

  • PD
    Phi Delta Theta Foundation
    3× · 2017–2020 · $50k · revenue +12%
  • AD
    ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $15k · revenue +40%
  • YL
    YOUNG LIFE
    2× · 2017–2019 · $10k · revenue +59%

Funded once

  • FF
    Faithful Friends
    one grant, 2024 · $6k · revenue 0%
  • WM
    WIDOWS MIGHT
    one grant, 2023 · $3k
  • HE
    HUMANITARIAN EXPERIENCE FOR YOUTH
    one grant, 2018 · $1k
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
Sonlife Classic Nfp

Sonlife Classic provides leadership coaching/mentoring, training events for church leaders, and disciple-making resources.

Religion
2
Firefighters for Christ International

To encourage firefighters to live their lives for Jesus Christ

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3
Family Career and Community Leaders of America Inc

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…

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4
Puget Sound Firefighters Foundation

Our mission is to make a positive impact in our community through charitable work and unwavering support

Philanthropy
5
For All Saints Team Ministries

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…

Religion
6
Family Lines

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 -…

Human Services
7
Gospel Family Ministries

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…

Religion
8
Pregnancy Choices of Skagit County

Pregnancy Choices is a Christian ministry caring for those touched by unplanned pregnancy by providing options and resources that promote life.

Health
9
Portland Firefighters Charitable Fund

Making charitable contributions on behalf of contributing firefighters.

Philanthropy
10
Good Samaritan Foundation

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…

Health
11
Wa State Association of Fire Chiefs

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.

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12
Camp Fire Georgia

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…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Life; 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.
04the grantee network

9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 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.

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

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
4/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $131,500 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITYPhi Delta Theta Foundation: $50,000 · OtherPhi Delta Theta FoundationLIBERTY BIBLE CHURCH: $13,000 · OtherLIBERTY BIBLE CHURCHFlash Love: $8,000 · Other+7 more: $19,575 · Other+7 moreALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $15,000 · HealthALZHEIMER…Pathways Clinic: $6,000 · HealthPathways …YOUNG LIFE: $10,025 · Youth DevelopmentSonshine Christian School: $5,210 · EducationCOAST GUARD AVIATION ASSOCIATION ANCIENT ORDER OF THE PTERODACTYL: $1,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$222,075Health$21,000Youth Development$10,025Education$5,210Arts & Culture$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPhi Delta Theta Foundation: $50,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $10,025 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFlash Love: $8,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetFaithful Friends: $6,075 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetPathways Clinic: $6,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSonshine Christian School: $5,210 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFOREST GROVE FIREFIGHTERS ASSOCIATION: $4,000 over 2y, 6.7% of budgetCOAST GUARD AVIATION ASSOCIATION ANCIENT ORDER OF THE PTERODACTYL: $1,000 over 1y, 1.1% 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 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 ↗

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Amazonsmile Foundation
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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 Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Vance 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%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get 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, FY20–25
    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.

    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 16 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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