· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| NJIRA IMPACT (PREVIOUSLY FOCCAD) | $125,000 |
| WANDIKWEZA | $125,000 |
| LID | $119,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100,000 |
| ST GEORGE FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| MOPADA | $100,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $90,000 |
| SONGTABA | $90,000 |
| CENTER FOR GENDER AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT | $89,500 |
| ADEMI | $85,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $80,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
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.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
Beyond the US: 54% of all-years giving ($12M)
17 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 47% of The Vibrant Village Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 16% of the giving stays in OR; by stated purpose, 2%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- AFANDANDO FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2023 · $1.8M · revenue +52% · 94% of their budget
- KDKenya Drylands Education Fund KDEF Formerly The Kura Project Inc4× · 2019–2022 · $719k · revenue +372% · 36% of their budget
- SFShanta Foundation Inc6× · 2017–2022 · $692k · revenue +154%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $211k
- TWTHE WATER TRUSTone grant, 2017 · $132k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $57k
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.
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.
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…
How this is measured
23 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Vibrant Village Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Vibrant Village Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Ecotrust: 14% of income from government
- Verde Inc: 3% of income from government
- Oxfam-America Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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