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The Vazomica 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.

$65k
Granted FY2025still arriving
26
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Animals$100kArts & Culture$87kEducation$65kReligion$60kEnvironment$23kHuman Services$5kPublic Benefit$3kCivil Rights$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k25 grants · $55k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$1,275
Median grant
6
States reached
$328k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION$10,000
SECOND CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH$8,900
THOMAS EDISON SCHOOL$8,015
Individual grant recipient$6,036
GOODSPEED OPERA HOUSE$5,500
ADOPT A DOG INC$3,998
MILLS COLLEGE$3,701
Individual grant recipient$3,000
LOUISIANA CREOLE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION$2,220
OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE$2,060
GREENWICH SPANISH SCHOOL$2,000
Individual grant recipient$1,500
MISSISSIPPI FREE PRESS$1,275
Individual grant recipient$1,250
GREENWICH PUBLIC LIBRARY$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 30% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Mills College: $11k → 10%Adopt a Dog Inc: $3k → 9%Roundabout Theater Company: $8k → 17%GOODSPEED OPERA HOUSE: $6k → 7%CT Public Radio: $3k → 11%University of Memphis Foundation: $10k → 17%Mississippi Today: $2k → 11%Ultravision Films: $5k → 8%National Wildlife Federation: $20k → 6%Mills College: $4k → 10%Roundabout Theater Company: $4k → 17%Goodspeed Opera House: $5k → 7%CT PUBLIC RADIO: $3k → 11%University of Memphis Foundation: $5k → 17%Ultra Vision Films: $5k → 8%National Wildlife Federation: $10k → 6%LOUISIANA CREOLE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION: $2k → 23%MILLS COLLEGE: $4k → 10%Roundabout Theatre: $2k → 17%Goodspeed Musicals: $4k → 7%University of Memphis Foundation: $2k → 17%Goodspeed Musicals: $3k → 7%Goodspeed Opera House: $3k → 7%Defenders of Wildlife: $3k → 14%Goodspeed Musicals: $3k → 7%Defenders of Wildlife: $3k → 14%Defenders of the Wildlife: $3k → 14%Lyndhurst: $3k → 9%Defenders of Wildlife: $3k → 14%Lyndhurst: $2k → 9%THOMAS EDISON SCHOOL: $8k → 14%Edison School of Burbank PTA: $3k → 14%Occidental College: $3k → 14%ADOPT A DOG INC: $4k → 9%OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE: $2k → 14%CT BEARDSLEY ZOO: $6k → 9%CT Beardsley Zoo: $4k → 9%Connecticut Beardsley Zoo: $3k → 9%Connecticut Beardsley Zoo: $2k → 9%The Second Congregational Church: $15k → 9%Second Congregational Church: $13k → 9%The Second Congregational Church: $9k → 9%SECOND CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH: $9k → 9%Second Congregational Church: $9k → 9%Second Congregational Church: $6k → 9%Bruce Museum: $4k → 9%Bruce Museum: $3k → 9%Bruce Museum: $3k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
VA
TN
SC
DC
LA
MS
AL
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$333k · 51 repeat orgs$39k to everyone else

51 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2025, 31 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

51
36

Total granted

$333k
$29k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+23%

Still filing today

65%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureAnimalsEducationEnvironmentCrime & LegalPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • NW
    NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION
    4× · 2020–2025 · $50k · revenue +90%
  • GO
    GOODSPEED OPERA HOUSE FOUNDATION INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $24k · revenue +146%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $20k · revenue +188%

Funded once

  • NP
    Native Plant Society of South Carolina
    one grant, 2024 · $5k
  • DO
    Defenders of the Wildlife
    one grant, 2021 · $3k
  • ES
    Edison School of Burbank PTA
    one grant, 2024 · $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.

04Its field

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.

1
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
2
American Humane Association

Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…

Animals
3
World Animal Protection

World animal protection is a global organization working to end factory farming and wildlife exploitation. we expose cruel systems, promote animal-friendly alternatives, and influence policy change. for over 75 years, we've been rewriting…

Animals
4
The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).

Arts & Culture
5
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
6
Metropolitan Museum of Art

The metropolitan museum of art collects, studies, conserves, and presents significant works of art across all times and cultures in order to connect people to creativity, knowledge, and ideas.

Arts & Culture
7
San Diego Museum of Art

To inspire, educate and cultivate curiosity through great works of art.

Arts & Culture
8
The Wildlife Society

The wildlife society's mission is to inspire, empower, and enable wildlife professionals to sustain wildlife populations and habitats through science-based management and conservation.

Animals
9
The Phillips Collection

The phillips collection is the oldest museum of modern and contemporary art in the u.s. in addition to presentation of works from the permanent collection and special exhibitions, the museum maintains active educational, academic,…

Arts & Culture
10
Wildlife Conservation Society

The wildlife conservation society (wcs) saves wildlife and wild places worldwide through science, conservation action, education, and inspiring people to value nature.

Animals
11
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
12
Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greenwich Historical Society Inc; the most unlike its peers is Animal Aid Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

48 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. 48 of the 93 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
46/48
Grantees still filing
33/48
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

The Second Congregational Church: $60,190 · OtherThe Second Congregational ChurchMILLS COLLEGE: $18,801 · OtherMILLS COLLEGEIndividual grant recipient: $11,036 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $10,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTHOMAS EDISON SCHOOL: $8,015 · OtherLyndhurst: $6,750 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $6,000 · Other+44 more: $41,345 · Other+44 moreNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $50,000 · AnimalsNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATI…ADOPT-A-DOG INC: $13,443 · AnimalsADOPT-A-DOG INCDefenders of Wildlife: $10,000 · AnimalsDefenders of WildlifeCONNECTICUT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETYINC: $6,750 · AnimalsCONNECTICUT ZOOLOGICAL SOC…+7 more: $5,700 · Animals+7 moreGOODSPEED OPERA HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $23,500 · Arts & CultureGOODSPEED OPERA HOUSE …ROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY INC: $16,000 · Arts & CultureROUNDABOUT THEATRE COM…BRUCE MUSEUM INC: $9,000 · Arts & CultureBRUCE MUSEUM INCGREENWICH HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $4,000 · Arts & CultureGREENWICH HISTORICAL S…LOUISIANA CREOLE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION INC: $3,220 · Arts & CultureALLIANCE FRANCAISE OF GREENWICH INC: $2,925 · Arts & Culture+15 more: $15,000 · Arts & Culture+15 moreUNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS FOUNDATION: $20,329 · EducationOCCIDENTAL COLLEGE: $4,914 · EducationTHE GREENWICH LIBRARY: $2,500 · Education+2 more: $800 · EducationWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $17,000 · EnvironmentTHE GREENWICH TREE CONSERVANCY INC: $800 · EnvironmentSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $2,300 · Crime & LegalJUSTICE IN MOTION INC: $100 · Crime & LegalGOFUNDMEORG: $1,080 · Philanthropy
Other$162,637Animals$85,893Arts & Culture$73,645Education$28,543Environment$17,800Crime & Legal$2,400Philanthropy$1,080

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $50,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGOODSPEED OPERA HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $23,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS FOUNDATION: $20,329 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMILLS COLLEGE: $18,801 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $17,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY INC: $16,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetADOPT-A-DOG INC: $13,443 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetDefenders of Wildlife: $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBRUCE MUSEUM INC: $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCONNECTICUT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETYINC: $6,750 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetOCCIDENTAL COLLEGE: $4,914 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGREENWICH SPANISH SCHOOL CORPORATION THE GREENWICH SPANISH SCHOOL GSS: $4,315 over 5y, 3.7% of budgetGREENWICH HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $4,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetALLIANCE FRANCAISE OF GREENWICH INC: $2,925 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetHumane Society of Memphis & Shelby County: $2,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GREENWICH LIBRARY: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMISSISSIPPI JOURNALISM AND EDUCATION GROUP: $2,392 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $2,300 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDEEP SOUTH TODAY: $2,085 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONNECTICUT PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHENRY E HUNTINGTON LIBRARY AND ART GALLERY: $1,729 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGOFUNDMEORG: $1,080 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPRO PUBLICA INC: $1,036 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMILITARY HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN SHAKESPEARE CENTER: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIVITY SCHOOL OF WORCESTER INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO: $898 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetANIMAL AID INC: $808 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GREENWICH TREE CONSERVANCY INC: $800 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWILDLIFE IN CRISIS INC: $700 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $695 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGULF COAST HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $615 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWESTPORT COUNTRY PLAYHOUSE INC: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetREAD TO GROW INC: $550 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGREENWICH ARTS COUNCIL INC: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPIH Health Good Samaritan Hospital: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES: $440 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCONSUMER REPORTS INC: $420 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER LOS ANGELES ZOOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION: $377 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM: $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWHITE HOUSE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ROOSEVELT INSTITUTE: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHumane World for Animals International: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJUSTICE IN MOTION INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHED NYC INC: $75 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

  • Who funds NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION ↗
  • Who funds GOODSPEED OPERA HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MILLS COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds ROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY INC ↗
  • Who funds ADOPT-A-DOG INC ↗
  • Who funds Defenders of Wildlife ↗
  • Who funds BRUCE MUSEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds CONNECTICUT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETYINC ↗
  • Who funds OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds GREENWICH SPANISH SCHOOL CORPORATION THE GREENWICH SPANISH SCHOOL GSS ↗
  • Who funds GREENWICH HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds LOUISIANA CREOLE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ALLIANCE FRANCAISE OF GREENWICH INC ↗
  • Who funds Humane Society of Memphis & Shelby County ↗
  • Who funds THE GREENWICH LIBRARY ↗
  • Who funds MISSISSIPPI JOURNALISM AND EDUCATION GROUP ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds DEEP SOUTH TODAY ↗
  • Who funds CONNECTICUT PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC ↗
  • Who funds HENRY E HUNTINGTON LIBRARY AND ART GALLERY ↗
  • Who funds GOFUNDMEORG ↗
  • Who funds PRO PUBLICA INC ↗

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.

Connecticut Humanitie…Malkin Fund IncGe Aerospace Foundati…The John L and Sue An…The Resource Foundati…Royce Family Fund IncThe Scripps Family Fu…Fairfield County's Co…The Pfizer Foundation…The Bessemer Giving F…Ibm International Fou…National Philanthropi…
Connecticut Humanities Council IncCT17.2× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Connecticut Humanities Council Inc · Malkin Fund Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The John L and Sue Ann Weinberg Foundation · The Resource Foundation Inc · Royce Family Fund Inc · The Scripps Family Fund for Education and the Arts · Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bessemer Giving Fund · Ibm International Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Vazomica Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Vazomica Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Connecticut Public Broadcasting Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Westport Country Playhouse Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Greenwich Arts Council Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Bruce Museum Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Goodspeed Opera House Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to The Vazomica Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 93 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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