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V&S 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.

$5k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$548kHuman Services$512kEducation$432kReligion$420kYouth Development$205kRecreation & Sports$199kArts & Culture$115kInternational$88kOther$0
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$300
Median grant
2
States reached
$110k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Washington Jesuit Academy$5,088
A Wider Circle$300
Second Chance Wildlife Center Inc$100
02The need
03

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 (FY17–23, $565k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 63% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Together We Bake: $5k → 9%The Giving Foundation Inc: $4k → 11%Family and Youth Initiative Inc: $5k → 14%Family and Youth Initiative Inc: $4k → 14%FairChance: $71k → 14%DC Wise: $50k → 14%FairChance: $31k → 14%DC Wise: $25k → 14%DC Wise: $25k → 14%DC Wise: $13k → 14%FairChance: $10k → 14%Florence Crittenton Services: $72k → 8%Florence Crittenton Services: $41k → 8%Florence Crittenton Services: $37k → 8%DC Wise: $4k → 14%Florence Crittenton Services: $31k → 8%Florence Crittenton Services: $23k → 8%DC Wise: $3k → 14%New Futures: $50k → 14%New Futures: $40k → 14%New Futures: $25k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
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

MN
WI
NY
IN
OH
PA
CT
CA
CO
KY
VA
MD
AR
TN
DC
GA
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.5M · 42 repeat orgs$192k to everyone else

42 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 39 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

42
34

Total granted

$2.5M
$192k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+36%

Still filing today

57%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationHealthInternationalArts & CultureHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • DR
    DOCS RECOVERY HOUSE
    3× · 2019–2021 · $425k · revenue +390% · 41% of their budget
  • IL
    Ignatian Lay Volunteer Corporation
    7× · 2017–2023 · $250k · revenue +105%
  • FC
    Florence Crittenton Services of Greater Washington
    5× · 2018–2023 · $203k · revenue +35%

Funded once

  • OS
    Operation Second Chance Incgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +89%
  • CM
    CHRISTIAN MISSIONARY FELLOWSHIP
    one grant, 2022 · $25k
  • WS
    WASHINGTON SCHOOL FOR GIRLS
    one grant, 2022 · $23k · revenue -36%
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.

1
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
2
Medstar Health Inc

Plan, develop, coordinate, direct and manage an integrated healthcare system.

Health
3
College Success Foundation - District of Columbia

Prepare low-income students to finish high school, graduate college and succeed in life.

Education
4
Covenant House Washington Dc

Covenant house washington, dc ("chw") provides shelter, crisis care, community services, and outreach services to youth in the washington dc area.

Human Services
5
Jobsfirstnyc

Jobsfirstnyc's mission is to create and advance solutions that break down barriers and transform the systems supporting young adults and their communities in the pursuit of economic opportunities.

Youth Development
6
Friendship Place

Friendship Place is a leader in the Washington, DC, metro area in developing solutions to homelessness that have measurable results and a lasting impact. Friendship Place's mission is to empower people who are experiencing or at risk of…

Housing & Shelter
7
Institute for Experiential Learning Inc

The mission of the washington internship institute is to foster students' intellectual, personal, and professional development through individually tailored, quality internships and challenging academic coursework that take full advantage…

Education
8
Youthbuild Dc Public Charter School Inc

Youthbuild pcs seeks to transform the lives of disconnected youth by offering a program, in english and spanish, that combines rigorous academic instruction with vocational training, life and employability skills- building, and community…

Education
9
Cityworks Dc

Our mission is to dramatically improve the early career outcomes of dc youth and young adults of color by creating innovative programs and by mobilizing employers, educators, and city leaders to create a local, diverse talent pipeline. our…

Education
10
Abilities Network Inc

Cultivating inclusive communities through relationships, innovation and high-quality services.

Health
11
Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments

Create a more accessible, sustainable, prosperous and livable national capital region by being a discussion forum, expert resource, issue advocate, and catalyst for action.

Public Benefit
12
National College Advising Corps Inc

College advising corps (cac) is the nation's largest nonprofit service organization dedicated to advancing educational equity and expanding opportunity for all high school students. cac provides college enrollment and career guidance to…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Futures; the most unlike its peers is Maryland Youth Club of America Inc. 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

44 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 44 of the 77 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
42/44
Grantees still filing
35/44
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Ignatian Lay Volunteer Corporation: $250,000 · OtherIgnatian Lay Volunteer CorporationWASHINGTON JESUIT ACADEMY: $132,945 · OtherWASHINGTON JESUIT ACADEMYOUR LADY OF GOOD COUNSEL HIGH SCHOOL: $94,075 · OtherOUR LADY OF GOOD COUNSEL HIGH SCHOOLHomeless Persons Representation Pro: $75,000 · OtherHomeless Persons Representation ProIndividual grant recipient: $50,000 · OtherCIRCLES OF GOOD INC: $40,390 · OtherDon Bosco Cristo Rey High School: $40,000 · OtherAsylee Women Enterprise Inc: $63,075 · OtherAsylee Women Enterprise Inc+41 more: $326,893 · Other+41 moreFlorence Crittenton Services of Greater Washington: $202,536 · Human ServicesFlorence Crittenton Ser…DC WISE Inc: $119,000 · Human ServicesDC WISE IncNEW FUTURES: $115,000 · Human ServicesNEW FUTURESFAIR CHANCE: $111,480 · Human ServicesFAIR CHANCE+4 more: $18,000 · Human ServicesDOCS RECOVERY HOUSE: $425,000 · HealthDOCS RECOVERY HOUSEItineris Foundation Inc: $31,500 · HealthItineris Foundation …+4 more: $21,000 · HealthHERZING UNIVERSITY LTD: $70,165 · EducationDUQUESNE UNIVERSITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT: $24,500 · EducationCAL RIPKEN SR FOUNDATION INC: $24,000 · EducationWASHINGTON SCHOOL FOR GIRLS: $23,000 · EducationSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $18,000 · EducationMONTGOMERY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $15,000 · EducationA WIDER CIRCLE INC: $11,725 · EducationARKANSAS COMMUNITY COLLEGES: $10,000 · EducationSPECIAL OLYMPICS INC: $102,500 · Recreation & SportsBETHESDA SOCCER CLUB INC: $82,207 · Recreation & SportsSITAR ARTS CENTER: $76,830 · Arts & CultureCAPITOL HILL JAZZ FOUNDATION: $38,000 · Arts & CultureHOUSE OF RUTH: $65,000 · Housing & ShelterStepping Stones Shelter Inc: $27,500 · Housing & Shelter
Other$1,072,378Human Services$566,016Health$477,500Education$196,390Recreation & Sports$184,707Arts & Culture$114,830Housing & Shelter$92,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDOCS RECOVERY HOUSE: $425,000 over 3y, 41% of budgetIgnatian Lay Volunteer Corporation: $250,000 over 7y, 5.0% of budgetFlorence Crittenton Services of Greater Washington: $202,536 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetDC WISE Inc: $119,000 over 6y, 23% of budgetNEW FUTURES: $115,000 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetFAIR CHANCE: $111,480 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS INC: $102,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBETHESDA SOCCER CLUB INC: $82,207 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetSITAR ARTS CENTER: $76,830 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetHERZING UNIVERSITY LTD: $70,165 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHOUSE OF RUTH: $65,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetAsylee Women Enterprise Inc: $63,075 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetCAPITOL HILL JAZZ FOUNDATION: $38,000 over 5y, 15% of budgetItineris Foundation Inc: $31,500 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetStepping Stones Shelter Inc: $27,500 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetOperation Second Chance Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetDUQUESNE UNIVERSITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT: $24,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCAL RIPKEN SR FOUNDATION INC: $24,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $18,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMONTGOMERY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetA WIDER CIRCLE INC: $11,725 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetOMID FOUNDATION USA: $10,350 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetARKANSAS COMMUNITY COLLEGES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC: $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY AND YOUTH INITIATIVE INC: $8,500 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetTHE BERNIE HOUSE: $7,500 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetSECOND CHANCE WILDLIFE CENTER INC: $5,600 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetTogether We Bake: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetNormandale Community College Foundation Inc: $4,504 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Giving Foundation Inc: $3,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFREDERICK COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKIDSAVE INTERNATIONAL INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetZIMS FOUNDATION INC: $1,800 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCHOICES HEALTHCARE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARYLAND YOUTH CLUB OF AMERICA INC: $550 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetSHEPPARD PRATT HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMANNA FOOD CENTER INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDisabled American Veterans: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

  • Who funds DOCS RECOVERY HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds Ignatian Lay Volunteer Corporation ↗
  • Who funds Florence Crittenton Services of Greater Washington ↗
  • Who funds DC WISE Inc ↗
  • Who funds NEW FUTURES ↗
  • Who funds FAIR CHANCE ↗
  • Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC ↗
  • Who funds BETHESDA SOCCER CLUB INC ↗
  • Who funds SITAR ARTS CENTER ↗
  • Who funds HERZING UNIVERSITY LTD ↗
  • Who funds HOUSE OF RUTH ↗
  • Who funds Asylee Women Enterprise Inc ↗
  • Who funds CAPITOL HILL JAZZ FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Itineris Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds Stepping Stones Shelter Inc ↗
  • Who funds Operation Second Chance Inc ↗
  • Who funds DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT ↗
  • Who funds CAL RIPKEN SR FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds WASHINGTON SCHOOL FOR GIRLS ↗
  • Who funds SOCIAL GOOD FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds MONTGOMERY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds A WIDER CIRCLE INC ↗
  • Who funds OMID FOUNDATION USA ↗

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.

Greater Washington Community FoundationDC23.7× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Washington Community Foundation · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · United Way of the National Capital Area · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · The US Charitable Gift Trust · Viragh Family Foundation · The Scott and Patrice Brickman Family Foundation · John Edward Fowler Memorial Foundation · World Bank Community Connections Fund · Clark Charitable Foundation Inc Dba a James & Alice B Clark Foundation · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · Baltimore Community Foundation Inc

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 V&S Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from V&S Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • Asylee Women Enterprise Inc: 26% of income from government
  • Cal Ripken Sr Foundation Inc: 12% of income from government
  • A Wider Circle Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Manna Food Center Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Sheppard Pratt Health System Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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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Find your warmest path to V&S Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 77 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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