Connecticut · Private foundation
The Vlock Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $61k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 10
- Grants FY2025
- 6
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 17
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.1M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations The Vlock Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.
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
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 9 | $36k | 56% |
| FY2024 | 6 | $11k | 33% |
| FY2023 | 3 | $171k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 3 | $28k | 33% |
| FY2021 | 7 | $76k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 10 | $285k | 30% |
| FY2019 | 8 | $37k | 25% |
| FY2018 | 17 | $37k | 53% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of New Haven | $272,800 | 4 | 0% |
| Cornell University | $270,000 | 6 | 0% |
| The Connecticut Players Foundation Inc D/B/A Long Wharf Theatre | $35,600 | 8 | 0% |
| Yale University | $30,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Yale University | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Anti-Defamation League | $17,675 | 6 | 0% |
| New Haven International Festival of Arts and Ideas Inc | $6,700 | 6 | 0% |
| Fair Haven Community Health Clinic Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Connecticut Voices for Children Inc | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Leap | $3,750 | 2 | n/a |
Show all 22 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of New Haven | $272,800 | 4 | 0% |
| Cornell University | $270,000 | 6 | 0% |
| The Connecticut Players Foundation Inc D/B/A Long Wharf Theatre | $35,600 | 8 | 0% |
| Yale University | $30,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Yale University | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Anti-Defamation League | $17,675 | 6 | 0% |
| New Haven International Festival of Arts and Ideas Inc | $6,700 | 6 | 0% |
| Fair Haven Community Health Clinic Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Connecticut Voices for Children Inc | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Leap | $3,750 | 2 | n/a |
| Arts for Learning Connecticut | $1,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Truth in Advertising Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Bronx Children's Museum | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Breakthrough T1d | $500 | 5 | 0% |
| New Haven Free Public Library Foundation Incorporated | $350 | 2 | 0% |
| The Woodbridge Land Trust Incorporated | $250 | 1 | n/a |
| Read to Grow Inc | $250 | 1 | 0% |
| Homehaven Inc | $250 | 2 | 0% |
| Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc | $250 | 1 | 0% |
| Friends of the Grove Street Cemetery Inc | $150 | 3 | n/a |
| Planned Parenthood of Southern New England Inc | $100 | 1 | 0% |
| Pine Orchard Chapel Association | $100 | 1 | n/a |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($35k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Vlock Family Foundation Inc supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: 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
How this is measured
About The Vlock Family Foundation Inc
- How much does The Vlock Family Foundation Inc give?
- The Vlock Family Foundation Inc reported 10 grants totaling $60,750 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 17 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Vlock Family Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (75%), Philanthropy (19%), Arts & Culture (4%).
- Who are The Vlock Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: University of New Haven ($273k), Cornell University ($270k), The Connecticut Players Foundation Inc D/B/A Long Wharf Theatre ($36k).
- Does The Vlock Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Vlock Family Foundation Inc 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 Vlock Family Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include International Association of New Haven Inc, Seedlings Foundation, Yale University.
- Where is The Vlock Family Foundation Inc based?
- The Vlock Family Foundation Inc is based in CT.
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