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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 FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Education$2.0MInternational$1.1MHealth$715kArts & Culture$446kFood & Nutrition$230kHuman Services$101kCommunity Improvement$25kPhilanthropy$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $100k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $110k
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$168k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEW YORK STAGE & FILM COMPANY$60,000
MARIST COLLEGE$50,000
FRIENDS OF JOCKEY HOLLOW$25,000
ESCALA INITIATIVE INC$25,000
NANTUCKET BOYS & GIRLS CLUB$10,000
PRESCHOOL ADVANTAGE$10,000
ROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY$10,000
FREEDOM HOUSE NEW JERSEY$10,000
CHURCH OF THE ARCHANGELS$10,000
PG CHAMBERS SCHOOL$5,000
CORNERSTONE FAMILY PROGRAMS$5,000
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY$5,000
NANTUCKET SPORTS & THERAPEUTIC ACCESSIBLE RECREATIONS INC$5,000
KEMMERER LIBRARY HARDING TOWNSHIP$5,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $82k) land where the poverty rate runs at 4%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%CORNERSTONE FAMILY PROGRAMS: $12k → 4%CORNERSTONE FAMILY PROGRAMS: $12k → 4%LIFE CAMP INC: $10k → 4%CORNERSTONE FAMILY PROGRAMS: $10k → 4%CORNERSTONE FAMILY PROGRAMS: $8k → 4%CORNERSTONE FAMILY PROGRAMS: $5k → 4%CORNERSTONE FAMILY PROGRAMS: $5k → 4%LIFE CAMP INC: $5k → 4%CORNERSTONE FAMILY PROGRAMS: $5k → 4%CORNERSTONE FAMILY PROGRAMS: $5k → 4%CORNERSTONE FAMILY PROGRAMS: $5k → 4%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 81% of The Vanech Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 25% of the giving stays in NJ; read by stated purpose it is 8% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

The Vanech Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.5M · 22 repeat orgs$172k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +52% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.

22 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
12

Total granted

$4.5M
$107k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%
+26%

Still filing today

91%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k 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
EducationHuman ServicesHealthInternationalArts & CultureFood & NutritionOther

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

  • WN
    WESTERN NEW ENGLAND UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2018–2021 · $1.0M · revenue +22%
  • MU
    MARIST UNIVERSITY
    8× · 2017–2025 · $810k · revenue +52%
  • NY
    NEW YORK STAGE AND FILM INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $389k · revenue +1%

Funded once

  • CS
    CITIZEN SCHOOLS INC
    one grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue -95%
  • CC
    COLUMBIA COLLEGE FUND
    one grant, 2018 · $10k
  • WO
    WORLD OF CHILDREN INC
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue -98%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Public Media Nj Inc

To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse

Arts & Culture
2
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
3
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
4
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
5
Stony Brook Childrens Services University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
6
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
7
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
8
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
9
Connecticut Public Broadcasting Inc

Connecticut public broadcasting, inc. will inform, educate and inspire the people of connecticut, connecting and empowering the people of ct through outstanding journalism, storytelling, education and experiences, to make our state a more…

Arts & Culture
10
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
11
Morristown-Beard School

Morristown beard school is an educational college preparatory school in grades 6 to 12 located in morristown, new jersey.

Education
12
University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cornerstone Family Programs and the most unlike its peers is Roundabout Theatre Company Inc. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity Health CentersChristian Missionary Organi…Public Library SupportChristian Youth CampsYouth Development CentersIndependent K-8 SchoolsLand Conservation Organizat…Community Arts OrganizationsDomestic Violence Crisis Se…Volunteer Fire DepartmentsCommunity FoundationsAnimal Rescue and AdoptionFood Pantries & AssistanceFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Cancer Support Organizations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 39 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%3%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%17%10–20yr16%23%20–35yr13%30%35–55yr16%27%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%36%10–20yr16%8%20–35yr13%32%35–55yr16%24%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/33
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,532

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.

05the grantee network

33 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. 33 of the 42 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
33/33
Grantees still filing
26/33
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

WESTERN NEW ENGLAND UNIVERSITY — $1,010,000 · EducationWESTERN NEW ENGLAND UNIVERSITYMARIST UNIVERSITY — $810,000 · EducationMARIST UNIVERSITYPRESCHOOL ADVANTAGE INC — $88,000 · Education+4 more — $82,000 · EducationAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC — $800,000 · InternationalAMERICARES FOUNDATION INCESCALA INITIATIVE INC — $275,000 · InternationalESCALA INITIATIVE INC+1 more — $1,000 · InternationalBIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF NEW JERSEY INC — $350,000 · HealthBIOMEDICAL RE…Foundation for Morristown Medical Center — $200,000 · HealthFoundation fo…+2 more — $21,000 · HealthNEW YORK STAGE AND FILM INC — $388,700 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK S…ROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY INC — $25,000 · Arts & CultureROUNDABOUT…+1 more — $11,500 · Arts & CultureTHE SEEING EYE INC — $150,000 · Human ServicesCORNERSTONE FAMILY PROGRAMS — $66,500 · Human ServicesLIFE CAMP INC — $15,000 · Human Services+2 more — $5,000 · Human ServicesFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY — $205,000 · Community ImprovementFRIENDS OF JOCKEY HOLLOW — $25,000 · OtherTHE PINGRY SCHOOL — $12,500 · OtherFREEDOM HOUSE NEW JERSEY — $10,000 · OtherCOLUMBIA COLLEGE FUND — $10,000 · OtherNANTUCKET BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB INC — $10,000 · OtherWORLD OF CHILDREN INC — $10,000 · OtherCHURCH OF THE ARCHANGELS — $10,000 · OtherSHARE OUR STRENGTH — $10,000 · OtherMAYO PERFORMING ARTS CENTER — $10,000 · OtherATLANTIC THEATRE COMPANY — $6,000 · OtherINTERFAITH FOOD PANTRY INC — $10,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY — $10,000 · OtherGreat Swamp Watershed Association — $6,000 · Other+6 more — $20,500 · Other
Education$1,990,000International$1,076,000Health$571,000Arts & Culture$425,200Human Services$236,500Community Improvement$205,000Other$160,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetWESTERN NEW ENGLAND UNIVERSITY — $1,010,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetMARIST UNIVERSITY — $810,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC — $800,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK STAGE AND FILM INC — $388,700 over 9y, 4.8% of budgetBIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF NEW JERSEY INC — $350,000 over 4y, 37% of budgetESCALA INITIATIVE INC — $275,000 over 9y, 10% of budgetFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY — $205,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFoundation for Morristown Medical Center — $200,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE SEEING EYE INC — $150,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPRESCHOOL ADVANTAGE INC — $88,000 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetCORNERSTONE FAMILY PROGRAMS — $66,500 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetCITIZEN SCHOOLS INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY INC — $25,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetKEMMERER LIBRARY HARDING TOWNSHIP INC — $17,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetGOOD GRIEF INC — $16,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetLIFE CAMP INC — $15,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetPaper Mill Playhouse — $11,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetINTERFAITH FOOD PANTRY INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD OF CHILDREN INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHARE OUR STRENGTH — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGreat Swamp Watershed Association — $6,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCommunity Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHRISTOPHER REEVE FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPG CHAMBERS SCHOOL — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRIDGES OUTREACH INC — $4,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNEW VERNON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT — $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPRECIOUS DREAMS FOUNDATION — $2,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetHANDS UP FOR HAITI INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJERSEY BATTERED WOMEN'S SERVICE INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Community Foundation …The Hyde and Watson F…The Goldman Sachs Cha…Kaltenbacher Family F…The Mimi Washington S…The Paula and William…George a Ohl Jr TrustReed Family Foundatio…Healey Family Foundat…Blue Foundry Charitab…Fm Kirby Foundation I…The McJ Amelior Found…
Community Foundation of New JerseyNJ18.3× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Vanech Family Foundation 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 100%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • Christopher Reeve Foundation — 49% of income from government
  • Jersey Battered Women's Service Inc — 40% of income from government
  • Bridges Outreach Inc — 25% of income from government
  • Paper Mill Playhouse — 9% of income from government
  • Citizen Schools Inc — 8% of income from government
  • Life Camp Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Cornerstone Family Programs — 3% of income from government
  • Western New England University — 1% of income from government
  • Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
10get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 42 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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