How much does The Vollmer Family Foundation give?

The Vollmer Family Foundation reported 25 grants totaling $354,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 23 and 35 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.

What does The Vollmer Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (36%), Human Services (12%), Housing & Shelter (9%).

Who are The Vollmer Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Ole Health ($320k), Venice Family Clinic ($300k), Path ($233k).

Does The Vollmer Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Vollmer Family Foundation 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 Vollmer Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Kaiser Foundation Hospitals, Peter a & Vernice H Gasser Foundation, Community Foundation of the Napa Valley.

Where is The Vollmer Family Foundation based?

The Vollmer Family Foundation is based in CA.

The Vollmer Family Foundation

The Vollmer Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

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.

$355k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$50k

Largest

01What it funds

0190% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Health$911kHuman Services$295kHousing & Shelter$233kPublic Safety & Disaster$160kYouth Development$156kCivil Rights$121kEnvironment$120kReligion$105kOther$0

02FY2024 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k10 grants · $35k
$10k–50k12 grants · $170k
$50k–250k3 grants · $150k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$6.6M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
VENICE FAMILY CLINIC	$50,000
PATH	$50,000
OLE HEALTH	$50,000
TROUT UNLIMITED	$20,000
NAPA ED FOUNDATION	$20,000
World Central Kitchen	$20,000
NEWS	$20,000
ALDEA INC	$15,000
NAMI	$15,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF NEVE SHALOM	$10,000
VOICES FOR FREEDOM	$10,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD	$10,000
Casa	$10,000
COPE FAMILY CENTER	$10,000
LEAGUE TO SAVE LAKE TAHOE	$10,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

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.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$2.4M · 44 repeat orgs$94k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +80% since the first grant, against +67% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.4M

$91k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+80%

+67%

Still filing today

61%

33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Human ServicesHealthCivil RightsEnvironmentCrime & LegalInternationalOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

OH
OLE HEALTH
6× · 2018–2024 · $320k · revenue +248%
VENICE FAMILY CLINIC
7× · 2018–2024 · $300k · revenue +114%
P
PATH
7× · 2018–2024 · $233k · revenue +267%

Funded once

A
ALDEA
one grant, 2019 · $30k
IO
IMHRO ONE MIND INSTITUTE
one grant, 2020 · $15k
NC
NAPA COUNTY HISPANIC NETWORK
one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue -78%

How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International

Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

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.

Crime & Legal

Altamed Health Services Corporation

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.

Health

National Association of Clean Water Agencies

Nacwa is the national voice of public clean water utilities, shaping water policy, convening a vibrant peer network, and empowering water leaders.

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Community Action Partnership of Sonoma County

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…

Community Improvement

Public Advocates Inc

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,…

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The Climate Center

The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.

Education

Latino Media Collaborative

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,…

Arts & Culture

Chac Fka Community Health Awareness Council

Chac seeks to improve lives and strengthen communities through access to comprehensive and culturally responsive mental health services in northern santa clara county.

Health

Valle Del Sol Inc

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.

Health

League of California Community Foundations

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…

Philanthropy

Community Medical Centers Inc

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.

Health

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Aldea Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

31 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

31/31

Grantees still filing

26/31

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$934,000Health$736,000Human Services$498,500International$175,000Crime & Legal$75,000Civil Rights$60,000Religion$50,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Kaiser Foundation HospitalsCA18.5× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Vollmer Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Vollmer Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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