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Van de Bunt-Fox Family Foundation
Its FY2021 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 FY2017–2021.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k1 grant · $3k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $55k
- $50k–250k11 grants · $1.0M
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BRENTWOOD SCHOOL | $250,000 |
| WVU FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
| UCLA FOUNDATION | $146,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $117,000 |
| SAINT JOHN'S HEALTH | $100,000 |
| PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE | $100,000 |
| ASSISTIDD INC | $100,000 |
| USC UNIVERSITY | $60,000 |
| CITY YEAR LOS ANGELES | $50,000 |
| WATTS LEARNING CENTER FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| OTIS COLLEGE OF ART & DESIGN | $50,000 |
| EISENHOWER HEALTH | $50,000 |
| CREATIVE VISIONS FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| COMMON SENSE MEDIA | $15,028 |
| HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH | $15,000 |
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 (FY18–18, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
13 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2021, 7 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (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 FY2021, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $578k 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
- BSBRENTWOOD SCHOOL3× · 2017–2021 · $325k · revenue +42%
- UOUniversity of Michigan4× · 2018–2021 · $247k · revenue +195% · 36% of their budget
CITY YEAR INC4× · 2018–2021 · $175k · revenue +8%
Funded once
- UUSCone grant, 2017 · $85k
- LGLLOYD GRIEF CENTER - USCone grant, 2018 · $60k
- LALOS ANGELES CLEANTECH INCUBATORgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +44%
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 mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.
The university of la verne offers a distinctive and relevant educational experience to a diverse population of traditional-age, adult, and graduate learners, preparing them for successful careers and a commitment to lifelong learning…
The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The AIA California, in collaboration with local components, is the voice of the architectural profession.
The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…
California college of the arts educates students to shape culture and society through the practice and critical study of art, architecture, design, and writing. benefitting from its san francisco bay area location, the college prepares…
The california dental association is committed to the success of our members in service to their patients and the public.
The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…
Los angeles pacific university exists to deliver high quality, accessible christ-centered education to learners everywhere.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
To support educational, research and public functions and programs of the riverside campus of the university of california.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ucla Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Kindred Spirits Care Farm. 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 47 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 41 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 BRENTWOOD SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds University of Michigan ↗
- Who funds WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CITY YEAR INC ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds PS ARTS ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES CLEANTECH INCUBATOR ↗
- Who funds Eisenhower Medical Center ↗
- Who funds OTIS COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN ↗
- Who funds WATTS LEARNING CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds COMMON SENSE MEDIA ↗
- Who funds CREATIVE VISIONS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL REDISTRICTING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KINDRED SPIRITS CARE FARM ↗
- Who funds UNYCYN CIVIC ARTS ↗
- Who funds LA GOAL ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Los Angeles ↗
- Who funds PHASE ONE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRANCIS PARKER SCHOOL ↗
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: California Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Van de Bunt-Fox 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.
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
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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