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· Public charity
THE VISION COUNCIL FOUNDATION
Committed to solving the industry's biggest challenges: industry growth and public awareness.
$47k
Granted FY2024
6
Grants
5
Communities
$6k
Largest
01What you fund
0169% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2022–2024.
Education$96kPhilanthropy$49kOther$66k
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2022
everystudentbeyondorganizedcuyahogatri-cscholarships
2023
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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 6 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
$6,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$300k
Total assets
Largest grants
- GA PIEDMONT COLLEGE FOUNDATION$6,000
- MIAMI DADE COLLEGE FOUNDATION$6,000
- BROWARD COLLEGE FOUNDATION$6,000
- RARITAN VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION$6,000
- BENJAMIN FRANKLIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY$6,000
- J SARGEANT REYNOLDS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION$6,000
02The need
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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:
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY22–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 13%. 63% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
77%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$163k · 9 repeat orgs$48k to everyone else
9 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
9
8
Total granted
$163k
$48k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+96%
+186%
Still filing today
89%
75%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
EducationPhilanthropyOther
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
- MCMIDDLESEX COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION2× · 2022–2023 · $37k · revenue +1%
- GTGEORGIA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION3× · 2022–2024 · $30k · revenue +379%
- HCHILLSBOROUGH COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION2× · 2022–2023 · $18k · revenue +96%
Funded once
- ECESSEX COUNTY COLLEGEone grant, 2022 · $6k
- CCCUYAHOGA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $6k · revenue -14%
- SCSOUTHWESTERN COMMUNITY COLLEGEone grant, 2023 · $6k
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
Brookdale Community College Foundation Trust
The mission of the Foundation is to help students achieve their dream of earning a college degree. The Foundation solicits private funding from individuals, businesses, organizations, and private foundations to support and fund student…
Philanthropy
2
Three Rivers College Foundation
To support the educational efforts of ct state community college - three rivers.
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3
Everett Community College Foundation
To assist in making available accessible learning opportunities for everyone.
Education
4
North Central State College Foundation
The mission of the North Central State Foundation is to assist the College in providing life long learning opportunities by securing financial and community support.
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5
Northeast State Community College
The northeast state community college foundation promotes and supports academic and educational scholarship, community service, and other programs offered by the college in an effort to provide the resources necessary for students to have…
Education
6
Forsyth Technical Community College
The purposes of the foundation are to foster public understanding of, and support for, forsyth technical community college and to solicit and promote donations of any kind for the exclusive benefit of the college.
Education
7
Manchester Community College
Mccf assists mcc in achieving its mission through support of programs, scholarships and equipment.
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8
Suffolk Community College Foundationinc
The suffolk community college foundation's mission is to support student access to quality education and vocational skill training by providing scholarships, emergency loans and funding for program development. additionally, the foundation…
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9
Greenfield Community College Foundation
Educational endowment fund supporting greenfield community college and its students.
Philanthropy
10
The Dodge City Community College
The foundation is the primary fundraising organization of dodge city community college.
Philanthropy
11
Jefferson Community College
The mission of the jefferson community college foundation is to work in partnership with the college, the community and alumni to enhance the educational opportunities provided by the college.
Education
12
Tacoma Community College Foundation
The tacoma community college foundation assists the college in its mission by increasing financial resources and expanding educational opportunities through community advocacy, teamwork, and innovation. the foundation supports educational,…
Education
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Raritan Valley Community College and the most unlike its peers is Cuyahoga Community College Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
14 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
11/14
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Education$96,000Other$65,718Philanthropy$48,891
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 MIDDLESEX COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HILLSBOROUGH COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds J SARGEANT REYNOLDS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RARITAN VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BENJAMIN FRANKLIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ↗
- Who funds BROWARD COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OGEECHEE TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ESSEX COUNTY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CUYAHOGA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAMDEN COUNTY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DAYTONA STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DURHAM TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ERIE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
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.
Truist Foundation IncFL12.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Truist Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 organisation THE VISION COUNCIL 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
- Benjamin Franklin Cummings Institute of — 5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: GEORGIA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~13 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 5 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
5 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 4.8× since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 581746961 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on GEORGIA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 13 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2023; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 7% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to The Vision Council Foundation?
Find your warmest path to The Vision Council Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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The regranting layer
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Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines