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The Vibrant Village Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $2k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $96k
- $50k–250k35 grants · $3.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FUNDACION TIERRA VIVA | $175,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $175,000 |
| KENYA DRYLANDS EDUCATION FUND | $170,000 |
| ACADES | $138,000 |
| WANDIKWEZA | $125,000 |
| NJIRA IMPACT (PREVIOUSLY FOCCAD) | $125,000 |
| LID | $119,000 |
| MOPADA | $100,000 |
| ST GEORGE FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100,000 |
| SONGTABA | $90,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $90,000 |
| CENTER FOR GENDER AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT | $89,500 |
| ADEMI | $85,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $80,000 |
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 US giving — 46% of grant dollars ($10M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 54% that went abroad ($12M) is mapped below.
Your human-services grants (FY17–22, $625k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 98% 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
Beyond the US — 54% of all-years giving ($12M)
17 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 47% of The Vibrant Village 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, 16% of the giving stays in OR; read by stated purpose it is 2% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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.
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 +39% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
70 repeat relationships — 33 still active in FY2024, 37 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $640k 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
- AFANDANDO FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2023 · $1.8M · revenue +52% · 94% of their budget
- TWTHE WATER TRUST INC6× · 2018–2023 · $750k · revenue +39%
- KDKenya Drylands Education Fund KDEF Formerly The Kura Project Inc4× · 2019–2022 · $719k · revenue +372% · 36% of their budget
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $211k
- TWTHE WATER TRUSTone grant, 2017 · $132k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $57k
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.
See schedule o for a more detailed description of ide's mission statement and achievements.
Nuru is a global collective that enables inclusive and sustainable prosperity by identifying communities at the stability tipping point, strengthening rural livelihoods and market systems, and fostering stabilizing connections that repair…
Charity: water is a non-profit organization bringing clean and safe water to people around the world. continued on schedule o.
Water to Thrive transforms lives in rural Africa by working with partners and beneficiaries to bring the blessing of clean, safe water, connecting communities in need with supporters who have the heart and spirit to make a difference
Global Forest Generation restores and protects forest ecosystems in partnership with grassroots leaders and local communities across vast landscapes which play a critical role in preserving water, protecting biodiversity, storing carbon,…
Strategies for International Development (SID) develops, applies, and promotes better methods for eradicating rural poverty. We help small farmers make the transition from subsistence to successful commercial farming. We carryout programs…
The mission of Splash International and its subsidiaries is to ensure clean water for children. Splash partners with governments and local organizations to deliver sustainable water, sanitation, hygiene, and menstrual health programs in…
Well Aware's mission is to provide innovative and sustainable solutions to water scarcity and contamination in East Africa.
RA works at the intersection of business, agriculture & forests to improve lives & protect nature by transforming how land is used, production of goods & consumer choices.
RA works at the intersection of business, agriculture & forests to improve lives & protect nature by transforming how land is used, production of goods & consumer choices.
Transform east african communities by providing access to clean well water and water systems.
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Water Trust Inc and the most unlike its peers is Create Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
23 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. 23 of the 101 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 ANDANDO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE WATER TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds Kenya Drylands Education Fund KDEF Formerly The Kura Project Inc ↗
- Who funds Shanta Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE BOMA PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Groundswell International Inc ↗
- Who funds CREATE INC ↗
- Who funds AFRICA BRIDGE ↗
- Who funds The Gardens Edge Inc ↗
- Who funds TRICKLE UP PROGRAM 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: One Days Wages · National Philanthropic Trust · Impactassetsinc · The US Charitable Gift Trust · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Network for Good
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 Vibrant Village 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.
- Ecotrust — 14% of income from government
- Verde Inc — 3% of income from government
- Oxfam-America 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.
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