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The Vespa Family Foundationinc

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.

$44k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
13
Grants FY2024
9
Organizations funded FY2023
44%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$500
Largest grant, FY2024
$36,574
Organizations funded a year
9 to 29
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
5
Total assets, FY2024
$349k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 44% of the organizations The Vespa Family Foundationinc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $927 went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23
EducationHuman ServicesHealthPhilanthropyOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving12$43k42%
FY20239$56k44%
FY202211$82k64%
FY202118$53k50%
FY202017$34k29%
FY201925$57k40%
FY201729$73kn/a
88% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$367kYouth Development$27kHealth$23kReligion$18kHuman Services$8kPublic Safety & Disaster$4kArts & Culture$3kAnimals$2kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
IL
NY
PA
NJ
CA
VA
MD
DE
AZ
DC
GA
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 31 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 38 recipients with no EIN on record ($169k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Vespa Family Foundationinc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNew York Law School: $114,824 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFairleigh Dickinson University: $65,800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTeachers College Columbia University: $9,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Valley Hospital Inc: $3,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Wharton Institute for the Performing Arts Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCalifornia Institute for Human Science: $1,892 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetManhattan Institute for Policy Research Inc: $1,650 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFranklin Lakes Volunteer Ambulance Jonathan Burklund: $1,650 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetNew Jersey Audubon Society: $1,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTurning Point Inc: $1,010 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetReed Academy: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Maplebrook School Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetStephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation: $973 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHedge Funds Care Inc: $850 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFranklin Lakes Fire Department Inc: $850 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetWinhall Fire Department Inc: $800 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWyckoff Family YMCA: $628 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAll Stars Project Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Ukrainian American Relief Committee Inc: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRamapo-Bergen Animal Refuge Inc: $265 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFoundation Caring for Colombia Ltd: $200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRebeccas Homestead Incorporated: $154 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUnited Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerica's Charities: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLondonderry Volunteer Rescue Squad Inc Londonderry Volunteer Rescue Squad: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLehigh University: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCovenant House: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 27.

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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.

The Pfizer Foundation IncNY13.5× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Columbia Bank Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Charities Aid Foundation America · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund

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.

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How do I get to The Vespa Family Foundationinc?

Find your warmest path to The Vespa Family Foundationinc 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.

About The Vespa Family Foundationinc

How much does The Vespa Family Foundationinc give?
The Vespa Family Foundationinc reported 13 grants totaling $43,687 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 29 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Vespa Family Foundationinc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (78%), Youth Development (6%), Health (5%).
Who are The Vespa Family Foundationinc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: New York Law School ($115k), Fairleigh Dickinson University ($66k), Missionary Society of the Salesian Sisters Inc ($17k).
Does The Vespa Family Foundationinc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 44% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Vespa Family Foundationinc 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 Vespa Family Foundationinc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Pfizer Foundation Inc, Columbia Bank Foundation, The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is The Vespa Family Foundationinc based?
The Vespa Family Foundationinc is based in NJ.

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 72 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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