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The Vandermark Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$200k
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.

International$2.8MEducation$927kEmployment$580kHuman Services$341kArts & Culture$227kHealth$214kReligion$191kHousing & Shelter$62kOther$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k4 grants · $80k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $630k
$50,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
WORCESTER NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY$50,000
HOPE WALKS INC$50,000
QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY$50,000
BLUE DRAGON CHILDRENS FOUNDATION USA$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
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%AT HOME AND AFAR: $73k → 8%MASSACHUSETTS WONDERFUND INC: $5k → 16%HOPE HAS NO BORDERS: $50k → 12%AT HOME AND AFAR: $55k → 8%MY BROTHERS KEEPER INC: $10k → 11%MASSACHUSETTS WONDERFUND INC: $5k → 16%AT HOME AND AFAR: $30k → 8%DCF KIDS FUND INC: $5k → 16%AT HOME AND AFAR: $20k → 8%AT HOME AND AFAR: $15k → 8%AT HOME AND AFAR: $10k → 8%AT HOME AND AFAR: $10k → 8%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.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
PA
CT
CA
CO
DC
FL
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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.9M · 17 repeat orgs$538k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against +29% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
6

Total granted

$4.9M
$328k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+29%

Still filing today

82%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $210k 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
Human ServicesInternationalEducationArts & CultureHealthHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • BD
    BLUE DRAGON CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION USA
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.9M · revenue +60% · 32% of their budget
  • WE
    WOMEN'S EDUCATION PROJECT
    9× · 2017–2025 · $580k · revenue +48% · 35% of their budget
  • HW
    HOPE WALKS INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $540k · revenue +42%

Funded once

  • QU
    QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2017 · $110k
  • AF
    AMES FREE LIBRARY OF EASTON INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +29%
  • HH
    HOPE HAS NO BORDERS
    one grant, 2024 · $50k
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
Massachusetts Fair Housing Center Inc

Mfhc is committed to ending systemic housing discrimination and creating inclusive communities through education, outreach, advocacy, housing counseling and enforcement.

Housing & Shelter
2
Massachusetts Coalition for the Homeless Inc

Education on homelessness and support to the homeless and work with other organizations united in the same mission.

Human Services
3
Massachusetts Affordable Housing Alliance Inc

Maha breaks down barriers facing first-time and first-generation home buyers and owners through education, counseling, advocacy, and grassroots organizing.

Housing & Shelter
4
House of Hope Housing Inc

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…

Housing & Shelter
5
Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities & Public Policy Inc

We create opportunities for the people of massachusetts to transform their lives and build a more equitable commonwealth through the humanities.

Arts & Culture
6
Ansaar of Worcester Inc

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.

International
7
Metropolitan Boston Housing Partnership Inc D/B/a Metro Housing Boston

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.

Housing & Shelter
8
Horizons for Homeless Children

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…

Human Services
9
Womens Fund Southcoast Inc

The womens fund southcoast advances gender, racial and economic justice through research, grantmaking and advocacy.

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10
Massachusetts Education & Career Opportunities Inc

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…

Education
11
New Bedford Women's Center Inc

To empower and support positive choices for all and to educate and take action in the community for the prevention of oppression and violence.

—
12
New England Museum Association

New england museum association's mission is to connect a community engaged in learning, collaboration, and action to cultivate a better museum world.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Massachusetts Wonderfund Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

22 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. 22 of the 28 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/22
Grantees still filing
15/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BLUE DRAGON CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION USA: $1,935,000 · InternationalBLUE DRAGON CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION USAHOPE WALKS INC: $540,000 · InternationalHOPE WALKS INC+2 more: $70,000 · InternationalWOMEN'S EDUCATION PROJECT: $580,000 · EducationWOMEN'S EDUCATION P…QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY: $238,600 · EducationQUINNIPIAC UNIVERSI…AMES FREE LIBRARY OF EASTON INC: $100,000 · EducationAMES FREE LIBRARY O…SCHOOL ON WHEELS OF MASSACHUSETTS INC: $35,000 · EducationFLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY: $401,000 · OtherFLORIDA STATE UNIVE…HINGHAM MA NORTH ST COMMUNITY CHAPEL CHURCH OF THE: $192,000 · OtherHINGHAM MA NORTH ST…QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY: $110,000 · OtherQUINNIPIAC UNIVERSI…CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF CENTRAL COLORADO INC: $100,000 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES …GLASTONBURY ABBEY INC: $57,000 · OtherGLASTONBURY ABBEY I…EL SHADDAY CHURCH INC: $50,000 · OtherMASSACHUSETTS ASSOCIATION FOR MENTAL HEALTH INC: $40,000 · Other+1 more: $1,500 · OtherAT HOME AND AFAR: $212,500 · Human ServicesAT HOME AN…ACCOMPANIMENT AND SANCTUARY COALITION COLORADO SPRINGS: $200,000 · Human ServicesACCOMPANIM…HOPE HAS NO BORDERS: $50,000 · Human ServicesHOPE HAS N…+3 more: $41,000 · Human Services+3 moreGRUB STREET INC: $125,000 · Arts & CultureWORCESTER NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY INC: $50,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM IN EASTON INC: $40,000 · Arts & CultureHELPHOPELIVE INC: $170,000 · HealthFATHER BILL'S & MAINSPRING INC: $60,000 · Housing & ShelterSTATE DEMOCRACY DEFENDERS FUND D/B/A DEMOCRACY DEFENDERS FUND: $20,000 · Public Benefit
International$2,545,000Education$953,600Other$951,500Human Services$503,500Arts & Culture$215,000Health$170,000Housing & Shelter$60,000Public Benefit$20,000

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 budgetBLUE DRAGON CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION USA: $1,935,000 over 9y, 32% of budgetWOMEN'S EDUCATION PROJECT: $580,000 over 9y, 35% of budgetHOPE WALKS INC: $540,000 over 7y, 4.7% of budgetQUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY: $238,600 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAT HOME AND AFAR: $212,500 over 6y, 91% of budgetACCOMPANIMENT AND SANCTUARY COALITION COLORADO SPRINGS: $200,000 over 3y, 95% of budgetHELPHOPELIVE INC: $170,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetGRUB STREET INC: $125,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetFATHER BILL'S & MAINSPRING INC: $60,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHOPE HAS NO BORDERS: $50,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS ASSOCIATION FOR MENTAL HEALTH INC: $40,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetOneSky: $40,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM IN EASTON INC: $40,000 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetSCHOOL ON WHEELS OF MASSACHUSETTS INC: $35,000 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetPARTNERS FOR GUATEMALA EDUCATION INC: $30,000 over 1y, 50% of budgetSTATE DEMOCRACY DEFENDERS FUND D/B/A DEMOCRACY DEFENDERS FUND: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetESTHER R SANGER CENTER FOR COMPASSION: $16,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS WONDERFUND INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMy Brothers Keeper Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE HOMELESS OF THE SOUTH SHORE INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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.

Boston Foundation IncRockland Trust - Blue…United Way WorldwideAbbVie FoundationCharities Aid Foundat…Verizon FoundationAmerican Endowment Fo…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Bank of America C…The Pfizer Foundation…Vanguard Charitable E…Morgan Stanley Global…
Boston Foundation IncMA13.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get 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 · 0–40%
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 28 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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The regranting layer
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home