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The Vollmer Family 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $170k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PATH | $50,000 |
| VENICE FAMILY CLINIC | $50,000 |
| OLE HEALTH | $50,000 |
| NAPA ED FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| NEWS | $20,000 |
| TROUT UNLIMITED | $20,000 |
| World Central Kitchen | $20,000 |
| NAMI | $15,000 |
| ALDEA INC | $15,000 |
| VOICES FOR FREEDOM | $10,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $10,000 |
| COPE FAMILY CENTER | $10,000 |
| LEAGUE TO SAVE LAKE TAHOE | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF NEVE SHALOM | $10,000 |
| Casa | $10,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $499k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 47% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +80% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.
44 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 1 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- OHOLE HEALTH6× · 2018–2024 · $320k · revenue +248%
VENICE FAMILY CLINIC7× · 2018–2024 · $300k · revenue +114%- PPATH7× · 2018–2024 · $233k · revenue +267%
Funded once
- AALDEAone grant, 2019 · $30k
- IOIMHRO ONE MIND INSTITUTEone grant, 2020 · $15k
- NCNAPA COUNTY HISPANIC NETWORKone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue -78%
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.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.
To eliminate disparities in health care access and outcomes by providing superior quality health and human services through an integrated world-class delivery system for latino, multi-ethnic underserved communities in southern california.
Nacwa is the national voice of public clean water utilities, shaping water policy, convening a vibrant peer network, and empowering water leaders.
We are a catalyst of equitable transformation, aligning partners and resources to implement values-based, data-driven, community-led solutions that help families reach their full potential. our vision - we see sonoma county transformed…
For more than five decades, public advocates has challenged the systemic causes of poverty and racial discrimination by strengthening community voices in public policy and achieving tangible legal victories advancing education, housing,…
The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.
Latino Media Collaborative's mission is to leverage the power of Latino and community news media to impact policy, change narratives, and promote civic engagement, while also supporting advancement of the sector through capacity building,…
Chac seeks to improve lives and strengthen communities through access to comprehensive and culturally responsive mental health services in northern santa clara county.
Valle del sol inspires positive change by investing in health and human services to strengthen families with tools and skills for self-sufficiency and by building the next generation of latino and diverse leaders.
The league of california community foundations promotes and strengthens community foundations in california. through collaboration and shared learning among member foundations and building partnerships with private and public entities, we…
The organization provides primary medical, behavior health, and dental care to the population of san joaquin, and solano counties without regard to patients' ability to pay.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Aldea Inc and the most unlike its peers is League to Save Lake Tahoe. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
31 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. 31 of the 54 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 OLE HEALTH ↗
- Who funds VENICE FAMILY CLINIC ↗
- Who funds PATH ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds NEWS ↗
- Who funds ONE MIND ↗
- Who funds ALDEA INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF NEVE SHALOMWAHAT AL-SALAM INC ↗
- Who funds LEAGUE TO SAVE LAKE TAHOE ↗
- Who funds TROUT UNLIMITED INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Cope Family Center ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds THE TANZANIAN CHILDRENS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS ASSOCIATION OF LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds REFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Puertas Abiertas Community Resource Center ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION OF NAPA VALLEY ↗
- Who funds Napa Valley Vine Trail Coalition ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds NAPA COUNTY HISPANIC NETWORK ↗
- Who funds Reach Shirati ↗
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: Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Peter a & Vernice H Gasser Foundation · Community Foundation of the Napa Valley · McNabb Foundation · Queen of the Valley Medical Center · Winiarski Family Foundation · The California Wellness Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Hands Across the Valley Inc George Altamura Sr · The Woods Charitable Foundation · Napa Valley Vintners Healthy Community Fund · Craig and Kathryn Hall 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 organization The Vollmer Family 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.
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.
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