· Private foundation
The Vm Ehlers Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $3,800 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,800 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,300 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,800 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,800 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,800 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,800 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,800 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,800 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,800 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,800 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,800 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,800 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,800 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,800 |
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.
140 repeat relationships — 48 still active in FY2025, 92 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.
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
- IGIndividual grant recipient7× · 2018–2025 · $15k
- IGIndividual grant recipient5× · 2021–2025 · $12k
- IGIndividual grant recipient4× · 2022–2025 · $12k
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $4k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $3k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $3k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
0 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2018–2025.
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 2018–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 0 of the 254 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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.
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