· 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.
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
- $10k–50k4 grants · $80k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $630k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BLUE DRAGON CHILDRENS FOUNDATION USA | $200,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF CENTRAL COLORADO INC | $100,000 |
| WOMENS EDUCATION PROJECT | $75,000 |
| AT HOME AND AFAR | $55,000 |
| QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| WORCESTER NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY | $50,000 |
| BLUE DRAGON CHILDRENS FOUNDATION USA | $50,000 |
| HOPE WALKS INC | $50,000 |
| PARTNERS FOR GUATEMALA EDUCATION INC | $30,000 |
| STATE DEMOCRACY DEFENDERS FUND | $20,000 |
| FATHER BILLS & MAINSPRING INC | $20,000 |
| MY BROTHERS KEEPER INC | $10,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $288k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +42% since the first grant, against +29% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 5 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, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $210k 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
- BDBLUE DRAGON CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION USA9× · 2017–2025 · $1.9M · revenue +49% · 32% of their budget
- WEWOMEN'S EDUCATION PROJECT9× · 2017–2025 · $580k · revenue +48% · 35% of their budget
- HWHOPE WALKS INC7× · 2019–2025 · $540k · revenue +42%
Funded once
- QUQUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITYone grant, 2017 · $110k
- AFAMES FREE LIBRARY OF EASTON INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +29%
- ESEL SHADDAY CHURCH INCone grant, 2024 · $50k
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.
Mfhc is committed to ending systemic housing discrimination and creating inclusive communities through education, outreach, advocacy, housing counseling and enforcement.
Education on homelessness and support to the homeless and work with other organizations united in the same mission.
Maha breaks down barriers facing first-time and first-generation home buyers and owners through education, counseling, advocacy, and grassroots organizing.
To promote improved social and economic conditions of families who are or who have recently been homeless; to promote, develop, and manage affordable housing for families and to assist in carrying out the charitable purposes of house of…
We create opportunities for the people of massachusetts to transform their lives and build a more equitable commonwealth through the humanities.
To serve refugees, immigrants, and otherwise underserved in the greater worcester community through charity, advocacy, social integration, and improved access to programs and services, with special focus on youth and education.
Metro housing boston mobilizes wide-ranging resources to provide innovative and personalized services that lead families and individuals to housing stability, economic security, and an improved quality of life.
Hhc's mission is to improve the lives of homeless children and their families. hhc provides homeless children in massachusetts with the nurturing, stimulation and opportunities for early education and play that all children need to learn…
The womens fund southcoast advances gender, racial and economic justice through research, grantmaking and advocacy.
Massachusetts education and career opportunities, inc. (massedco, inc.) is a statewide network of service sites that provides education and career advising to over 12,000 low-income, first generation individuals each year. massedco…
To empower and support positive choices for all and to educate and take action in the community for the prevention of oppression and violence.
New england museum association's mission is to connect a community engaged in learning, collaboration, and action to cultivate a better museum world.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Massachusetts Wonderfund Inc and the most unlike its peers is Accompaniment and Sanctuary Coalition Colorado Springs. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 12% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
22 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 22 of the 28 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 BLUE DRAGON CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION USA ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S EDUCATION PROJECT ↗
- Who funds HOPE WALKS INC ↗
- Who funds QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds AT HOME AND AFAR ↗
- Who funds ACCOMPANIMENT AND SANCTUARY COALITION COLORADO SPRINGS ↗
- Who funds HELPHOPELIVE INC ↗
- Who funds GRUB STREET INC ↗
- Who funds AMES FREE LIBRARY OF EASTON INC ↗
- Who funds FATHER BILL'S & MAINSPRING INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE HAS NO BORDERS ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS ASSOCIATION FOR MENTAL HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds OneSky ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM IN EASTON INC ↗
- Who funds SCHOOL ON WHEELS OF MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS FOR GUATEMALA EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds STATE DEMOCRACY DEFENDERS FUND D/B/A DEMOCRACY DEFENDERS FUND ↗
- Who funds ESTHER R SANGER CENTER FOR COMPASSION ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS WONDERFUND INC ↗
- Who funds My Brothers Keeper Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE HOMELESS OF THE SOUTH SHORE INC ↗
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 tightly interlocked camp — 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
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 Vandermark 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Father Bill's & Mainspring Inc — 24% of income from government
- Worcester Natural History Society Inc — 8% of income from government
- School On Wheels of Massachusetts Inc — 7% of income from government
- Grub Street Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Children's Museum in Easton Inc — 1% of income from government
- Quinnipiac University — 0% of income from government
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.