· Private foundation
The Vandeventer Foundation Inc
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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k34 grants · $114k
- $10k–50k20 grants · $364k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $102k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HARTFORD HOSPITAL | $101,750 |
| VERO BEACH MUSEUM OF ART | $37,000 |
| RIVERFRONT RECAPTURE | $33,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH | $30,000 |
| EPISCOPAL HIGH SCHOOL | $30,000 |
| INDIAN RIVER LAND TRUST | $27,000 |
| JOHN'S ISLAND FOUNDATION | $26,000 |
| BONEFISH AND TARPON TRUST | $25,000 |
| JOHNS ISLAND COMMUNITY SERVICE LEAGUE | $16,000 |
| LOVE TO LANGA | $15,000 |
| VIRGINIA MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART | $15,000 |
| VIRGINIA ROWING ASSOCIATION | $15,000 |
| ADDISON GALLERY OF AMERICAN ART AT PHILLIPS ACADEMY | $15,000 |
| SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| ROBERT LLOYD ENDOWMENT FOR ARCHITECTURAL STUDIES AT PHILLIPS ACADEMY | $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 (FY20–22, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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 +36% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
60 repeat relationships — 45 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 9 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k 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
- HHHartford Hospital5× · 2021–2025 · $331k · revenue +24%
- VBVERO BEACH MUSEUM OF ART INC6× · 2020–2025 · $145k · revenue +917%
- TPTHE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL HIGH SCHOOL IN VIRGINIA6× · 2020–2025 · $136k · revenue +39%
Funded once
- HSHARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INCone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
- MGMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATEDone grant, 2022 · $6k
- FFFALL FOUNDATION - HBO INSTITUTEone grant, 2022 · $5k
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.
The museum is an educational corporation formed to ignite a life-long passion for exploring, discovering, and valuing nature and science.
Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.
The nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…
To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.
The aquarium of the pacific's mission is to instill a sense of wonder, respect, and stewardship for the pacific ocean, its inhabitants, and ecosystems.
Preserve in perpetuity the natural habitats, rural landscapes, and open spaces of the great peninsula of washington's puget sound.
Natural History Institute is organized to provide leadership and resources for a revitalized practice of natural history that integrates art, science, and humanities to promote the health and well-being of humans and the rest of the…
Glen foerd stewards an eclectic riverfront estate for the enjoyment and educational benefit of the community. drawing from the estate's architecture, art, material culture, and history-as well as its gardens and waterways-glen foerd…
To support healthy communities and a healthy earth, the institute for conservation leadership strengthens leaders, organizations, coalitions and networks.
Protect land along rivers, lakes and wetlands of vt; protect public access, wildlife habitat, scenic natural beauty, and ecological integrity.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Atlantic Classical Orchestra Inc and the most unlike its peers is Vandeventer Black Foundation. 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 37 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
49 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. 49 of the 82 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 Hartford Hospital ↗
- Who funds VERO BEACH MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds THE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL HIGH SCHOOL IN VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds INDIAN RIVER LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds RIVERFRONT RECAPTURE INC ↗
- Who funds BONEFISH & TARPON TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH ↗
- Who funds JOHN'S ISLAND COMMUNITY SERVICE LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds THE JOHN'S ISLAND FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART ↗
- Who funds Equi-Kids Therapeutic Riding Program ↗
- Who funds OCEAN RESEARCH & CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Clean Energy Transition Institute ↗
- Who funds HARTFORD STAGE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds Love to Langa ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION NW ↗
- Who funds THE MARINERS' MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds COYOTE CENTRAL ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ENVIRONMENT INC ↗
- Who funds WADSWORTH ATHENEUM MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds THE COLLEGE FOUNDATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE OPERA ↗
- Who funds VANDEVENTER BLACK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK 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: Indian River Community Foundation Inc · Edward C & Ann T Roberts Foundation · The William and Alice Mortensen Foundation · The Zachs Family Foundation Inc · Ibm International Foundation · Aetna Foundation Inc · Connecticut Humanities Council Inc · Hartford Foundation for Public Giving · Burton & Phyllis Hoffman Foundation Inc · Sandra & Arnold Chase Family Foundation Inc · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation
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 Vandeventer 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- The Mark Twain Memorial — 22% of income from government
- Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art — 5% of income from government
- Hartford Stage Company Inc — 3% of income from government
- Riverfront Recapture Inc — 2% of income from government
- Hartford Hospital — 0% of income from government
- Indian River Land Trust Inc — 0% of income from government
- Hartford Symphony Orchestra Inc — 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.