· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE LIBERTY BARN | $15,000 |
| FREE WHEELCHAIR MISSION | $5,000 |
| MULTIPLE MYELOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATIO | $5,000 |
| SMILE TRAIN | $5,000 |
| REACH OUT WORLDWIDE | $5,000 |
| OPERATION CATNIP | $5,000 |
| ELEV8HOPE | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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
How this is measured
9 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. 9 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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- 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 ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Vanderwerf Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Vanderwerf Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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