· Private foundation
The Vlock Family Foundation Inc
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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
65% of The Vlock Family Foundation Inc’s FY2024 grant dollars went to The Jewish Federation Of Greater New Haven Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 6 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2021, the last year The Vlock Family Foundation Inc named its own grantees at scale: 7 organizations, $96k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
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 · FY2021
- Under $10k5 grants · $6k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY | $60,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER NEW HAVEN | $20,250 |
| YALE UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| CONNECTICUT PLAYERS FOUNDATION INC (LONG WHARF THEATRE) | $5,150 |
| INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF ARTS & IDEAS | $200 |
| HOMEHAVEN | $150 |
| JUVENILE DIABETES RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $100 |
| FRIENDS OF THE GROVE STREET CEMETERY | $50 |
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 human-services grants (FY18–21, $750) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 18%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
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.
13 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2021, 6 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call). Read against FY2021, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $350 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
- UOUniversity of New Haven4× · 2018–2022 · $273k · revenue +40%
Cornell University6× · 2017–2023 · $270k · revenue +59%- ALANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE5× · 2017–2024 · $8k · revenue +78%
Funded once
- AFARTS FOR LEARNING CONNECTICUTgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue +152%
- YCYALE CANCER CENTERone grant, 2018 · $1k
- SCSOUTHERN CONNECTICUT HEBREW ACADEMYone grant, 2017 · $1k
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of New Haven and the most unlike its peers is Truth in Advertising Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 33 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 University of New Haven ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER NEW HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds THE CONNECTICUT PLAYERS FOUNDATION INC D/B/A LONG WHARF THEATRE ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds NEW HAVEN INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF ARTS AND IDEAS INC ↗
- Who funds ARTS FOR LEARNING CONNECTICUT ↗
- Who funds BRONX CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds TRUTH IN ADVERTISING INC ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds HOMEHAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds READ TO GROW INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
- Who funds PINE ORCHARD CHAPEL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds New Haven Free Public Library Foundation Incorporated ↗
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: International Association of New Haven Inc · Seedlings Foundation · Yale University · The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven · Ethel & Abe Lapides Foundation Inc · Newalliance Foundation Inc · Roslyn Milstein Meyer and Jerome Meyer Foundation R&J Meyer Trustees · The Jane and William Curran Foundation Inc C/O Margaret Andreassi · MFUND Inc · Eder Family Foundation Inc · Carolyn Foundation · William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund
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 Vlock Family Foundation Inc 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.
- Arts for Learning Connecticut — 14% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood of Southern New England Inc — 10% of income from government
- New Haven Free Public Library Foundation Incorporated — 4% of income from government
- University of New Haven — 2% of income from government
- The Jewish Federation of Greater New Haven Inc — 1% of income from government
- New Haven International Festival of Arts and Ideas Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Connecticut Players Foundation Inc D/B/a Long Wharf Theatre — 1% 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.