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The Vanden Brul Foundation Inc

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.

$20k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$20k
Largest
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.

Education$76kHealth$10kArts & Culture$4kCrime & Legal$1kHuman Services$525
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $300
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
$20,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$63k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY$20,000
MONROE COMMUNITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATIO$300
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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Its human-services grants (FY17–17, $525) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%BRIDGING AZ FURNITURE BANK INC: $525 → 11%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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$86k · 5 repeat orgs$4k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against +15% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
8

Total granted

$86k
$4k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+15%

Still filing today

60%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
HealthArts & CultureEducationCrime & LegalHuman ServicesOther
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

  • Rochester Institute of Technology
    8× · 2018–2025 · $75k · revenue +39%
  • MC
    MONROE COMMUNITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    6× · 2017–2022 · $7k
  • JA
    Joseph Avenue Arts and Culture Alliance Inc
    3× · 2020–2022 · $2k · revenue +27%

Funded once

  • THE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER OF GREATER ROCHESTERgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +422%
  • JA
    JOSEPH AVENUE ARTS CULTURE
    one grant, 2024 · $750
  • LV
    LILLIAN VALLELY SCHOOL INC
    one grant, 2017 · $525 · revenue -124%
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
Virginia Tech Applied Research Corporation

The mission of vt-arc is to extend the impact of the virginia tech research and innovation enterprise, delivering superior analytic and technology solutions to government and non-government customers.

Science & Tech
2
Watkins Institute

The watkins college of art challenges individuals to develop their talent, refine their creative practice, and dedicate their lives to advancing culture through the illuminating power of art.

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3
The Patrick G and Shirley W Ryan Opera Center

As the artist-training branch of Lyric Opera of Chicago, the Ryan Opera Center offers year-round education and performance opportunities to some of the nation's most talented young singers and pianists, facilitating their transition from…

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4
Arbor Research Collaborative for Health

Arbor research collaborative for health is committed to improving patient care through research that shapes medical policies and practice. in particular, arbor research conducts health outcomes research on chronic disease and end-stage…

Health
5
Roanoke Symphony Orchestra

The Roanoke Symphony Orchestra provides a professional symphony orchestra of artistic excellence and integrity to enrich lives, to educate, and to entertain diverse audiences in western Virginia with the highest quality instrumental and…

Arts & Culture
6
Rit Global Delivery Corporation

Provide administrative and other support services to academic programs sponsored by rochester institute of technology both in the united states and abroad.

Education
7
Raritan Valley Community College

Raritan Valley Community College is an educational community that works to develop critical thinking, foster intellectual curiosity, promote leadership, encourage social responsibility and support personal growth.

Education
8
Rochester Contemporary Art Center Inc

To create dialogue and build community through contemporary art exhibitions and related programs

Arts & Culture
9
Rochester General Health System

Rochester general health system, provides patient care, senior housing, laboratory services, and community outreach to residents and other clients in monroe county, new york and several surrounding counties.

Health
10
Illinois College

Illinois college is a co-educational institution of higher education learning providing a four-year educational program leading to the baccalaureate degree. illinois college is a community committed to the highest standards of scholarship…

Education
11
Viva Physicians Inc

To synergize the collective talents of these recognized experts to promote awareness and innovative therapeutic options for vascular disease

Education
12
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Child Advocacy Center of Greater Rochester; the most unlike its peers is Lillian Vallely School 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

8 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. 8 of the 13 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/8
Grantees still filing
5/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Rochester Institute of Technology: $75,000 · EducationRochester Institute of TechnologyMONROE COMMUNITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $6,750 · OtherMONROE COMMU…MONROE COMMUNITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATIO: $1,300 · OtherMONROE COMMU…JOSEPH AVENUE ARTS CULTURE: $750 · OtherJOSEPH AVENU…LILLIAN VALLELY SCHOOL INC: $525 · OtherGEVA THEATRE: $500 · Other+1 more: $250 · OtherJoseph Avenue Arts and Culture Alliance Inc: $1,750 · Arts & CultureROCHESTER PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA INC: $500 · Arts & CultureRETT SYNDROME RESEARCH TRUST INC: $1,650 · HealthEAGLEVILLE HOSPITAL: $200 · HealthTHE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER OF GREATER ROCHESTER: $1,100 · Crime & LegalBRIDGING AZ FURNITURE BANK: $525 · Human Services
Education$75,000Other$10,075Arts & Culture$2,250Health$1,850Crime & Legal$1,100Human Services$525

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 budgetRochester Institute of Technology: $75,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetJoseph Avenue Arts and Culture Alliance Inc: $1,750 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetRETT SYNDROME RESEARCH TRUST INC: $1,650 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER OF GREATER ROCHESTER: $1,100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLILLIAN VALLELY SCHOOL INC: $525 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBRIDGING AZ FURNITURE BANK: $525 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetROCHESTER PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEAGLEVILLE HOSPITAL: $200 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.

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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 Vanden Brul Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Vanden Brul Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    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 13 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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