· Private foundation
The Vanderwerf Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE LIBERTY BARN | $15,000 |
| MULTIPLE MYELOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATIO | $5,000 |
| FREE WHEELCHAIR MISSION | $5,000 |
| REACH OUT WORLDWIDE | $5,000 |
| OPERATION CATNIP | $5,000 |
| SMILE TRAIN | $5,000 |
| ELEV8HOPE | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $29k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 9% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
7 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down.
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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- ROREACH OUT WORLDWIDE INC7× · 2018–2024 · $32k · revenue +50%
- FWFREE WHEELCHAIR MISSION7× · 2017–2024 · $30k · revenue +88%
SMILE TRAIN INC7× · 2018–2024 · $29k · revenue +18%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $5k
- MTMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +64%
- OCOPERATION CHRISTMAS CHILDone grant, 2018 · $3k
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.
Miracle flights is a national charity that provides free commercial airline tickets for u.s. residents in need of distant medical care not available in their own communities.
To save and change lives through the power of aviation. throughout its 60-year history, wings of hope has provided lifesaving care and access to resources in more than 50 countries. the organization was nominated twice for the nobel peace…
The goal of our missions trips is to provide state of the art medical treatments to those in desperate need that otherwise have no access to treatment locally. also, exchange medical knowledge and techniques to improve the standard of care…
Kids Mobility Network provides wheelchairs, adaptive bikes, and other medical equipment to children with disabilities. We serve the uninsured and under-insured families that cannot obtain this necessary and expensive medical equipment…
MedGlobal is a humanitarian non-governmental organization working to serve vulnerable communities around the world by providing innovative, free, and sustainable healthcare. Our health services support refugees, displaced persons, and…
Our mission is to fly medical patients to critically needed appointments within California as well as to fly volunteer teams into remote, impoverished areas of Mexico. Our passion is to connect people who are isolated and in poverty with…
Providing wheelchairs to individuals worldwide
To improve the safety of healthcare in low and middle-income countries.
Sign partners with overseas surgeons to build sustainable orthopaedic capacity by donating education, instruments, and implants. by working with teaching hospitals and hosting educational conferences worldwide, sign equips surgeons to heal…
Provide access for people in need seeking free air transportation to specialized health care facilities or distant destinations due to family, community and national crisis. we serve patients in florida, the islands of the bahamas and…
To relieve and alleviate human suffering, misery, poverty, sickness, and distress throughout the world by providing emergency medical relief, funding, and support.
To send care and comfort packages to deployed american military heroes who are stationed in active duty theaters around the world, as well as to facilitate activities that elevate morale of all veterans
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Free Wheelchair Mission and the most unlike its peers is Liberty Barn Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 13 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 Liberty Barn Inc ↗
- Who funds REACH OUT WORLDWIDE INC ↗
- Who funds FREE WHEELCHAIR MISSION ↗
- Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
- Who funds Elev8hope Inc ↗
- Who funds MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LIFELINE INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOGGY CREEK GANG INC ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Vanderwerf Foundation Inc 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.