New Jersey · Private foundation
The Vanech Family 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.
- $235k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 14
- Grants FY2025
- 11
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 18%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $60,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 19
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $168k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 18% of the organizations The Vanech Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 13 | $230k | 46% |
| FY2024 | 11 | $156k | 18% |
| FY2023 | 8 | $206k | 13% |
| FY2022 | 9 | $332k | 22% |
| FY2021 | 11 | $739k | 18% |
| FY2020 | 15 | $826k | 20% |
| FY2019 | 12 | $639k | 17% |
| FY2018 | 19 | $995k | 42% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Western New England University | $1,010,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Marist University | $810,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Americares Foundation Inc | $800,000 | 6 | 0% |
| New York Stage and Film Inc | $388,700 | 9 | 5% |
| Biomedical Research Institute of New Jersey Inc | $350,000 | 4 | 37% |
| Escala Initiative Inc | $275,000 | 9 | 10% |
| Food Bank for New York City | $205,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Foundation for Morristown Medical Center | $200,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Seeing Eye Inc | $150,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Preschool Advantage Inc | $88,000 | 8 | 2% |
Show all 31 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($90k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Vanech Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 30 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation of New Jersey · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Kaltenbacher Family Foundation · The Mimi Washington Starrett Foundation Inc · The Paula and William J Marino Family Foundation · George a Ohl Jr Trust · Reed Family Foundation Inc · Healey Family Foundation · Blue Foundry Charitable Foundation Inc · Fm Kirby Foundation Inc · The McJ Amelior Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Vanech Family Foundation
- How much does The Vanech Family Foundation give?
- The Vanech Family Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $235,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 19 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Vanech Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (43%), International (23%), Health (15%).
- Who are The Vanech Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Western New England University ($1.0M), Marist University ($810k), Americares Foundation Inc ($800k).
- Does The Vanech Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Vanech Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Vanech Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of New Jersey, The Hyde and Watson Foundation, The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund.
- Where is The Vanech Family Foundation based?
- The Vanech Family Foundation is based in NJ.
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