Delaware · Private foundation
The Vandermark 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.
- $710k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 12
- Grants FY2025
- 10
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 40%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $200,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 13
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $11M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 40% of the organizations The Vandermark Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 21% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $118k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 11 | $710k | 45% |
| FY2024 | 10 | $565k | 40% |
| FY2023 | 10 | $726k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 13 | $695k | 23% |
| FY2021 | 8 | $580k | 13% |
| FY2020 | 10 | $552k | 10% |
| FY2019 | 12 | $565k | 17% |
| FY2018 | 10 | $359k | 20% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blue Dragon Children's Foundation USA | $1,935,000 | 9 | 32% |
| Women's Education Project | $580,000 | 9 | 35% |
| Hope Walks Inc | $540,000 | 7 | 5% |
| Florida State University | $401,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Quinnipiac University | $238,600 | 7 | 0% |
| At Home and Afar | $212,500 | 6 | 91% |
| Accompaniment and Sanctuary Coalition Colorado Springs | $200,000 | 3 | 95% |
| Helphopelive Inc | $170,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Grub Street Inc | $125,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Catholic Charities of Central Colorado Inc | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 26 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($302k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Vandermark Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 20 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · Rockland Trust - Blue Hills Charitable Foundation · United Way Worldwide · AbbVie Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Verizon Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
How this is measured
About The Vandermark Foundation
- How much does The Vandermark Foundation give?
- The Vandermark Foundation reported 12 grants totaling $710,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 13 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Vandermark Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (52%), Education (17%), Employment (11%).
- Who are The Vandermark Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Blue Dragon Children's Foundation USA ($1.9M), Women's Education Project ($580k), Hope Walks Inc ($540k).
- Does The Vandermark Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Vandermark Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Vandermark Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Boston Foundation Inc, Rockland Trust - Blue Hills Charitable Foundation, United Way Worldwide.
- Where is The Vandermark Foundation based?
- The Vandermark Foundation is based in DE.
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