· Private foundation
Van Der Wansem Foundation
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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of Van Der Wansem Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2021, the last year Van Der Wansem Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 10 organizations, $33k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS USA INC | $4,000 |
| WORLDREADER | $3,000 |
| WAR CHILD USA | $3,000 |
| HIMALAYAN CATARACT PROJECT | $3,000 |
| THE UMBRELLA ARTS CENTER | $2,500 |
| CONCORD FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY | $2,000 |
| HOUSEHOLD GOODS RECYCLING MINISTRY | $2,000 |
| ROOM TO READ | $2,000 |
| ADVANCING GIRLS' EDUCATION IN AFRICA | $2,000 |
| ROOM TO READ | $2,000 |
| SOCIAL GOOD FUND | $2,000 |
| HEALTH LAW ADVOCATES | $2,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF PSE | $2,000 |
| NEW ENGLAND INTERNATIONAL DONORS | $1,000 |
| ORGANIZATION FOR THE ASSABET RIVER | $500 |
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 (FY21–21, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +146% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
3 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2021, 0 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call). Read against FY2021, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC2× · 2021–2023 · $8k · revenue +20%- TUTHE UMBRELLA ARTS CENTER2× · 2021–2023 · $5k
- IMICON MUSEUM AND STUDY CENTER INC2× · 2021–2024 · $750 · revenue +146%
Funded once
- RTROOM TO READone grant, 2021 · $4k · revenue -24%
- WWORLDREADERone grant, 2021 · $3k
- WCWAR CHILD USA INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue +521%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Medecins Sans Frontieres Usa Inc and the most unlike its peers is Icon Museum and Study Center Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 17 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 FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds ROOM TO READ ↗
- Who funds WAR CHILD USA INC ↗
- Who funds HIMALAYAN CATARACT PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF PSE ↗
- Who funds ADVANCING GIRLS EDUCATION IN AFRICA INC ↗
- Who funds CONCORD FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds HEALTH LAW ADVOCATES INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL GOOD FUND INC ↗
- Who funds NETWORK OF ENGAGED INTERNATIONAL DONORS GLOBAL INC ↗
- Who funds ICON MUSEUM AND STUDY CENTER INC ↗
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: National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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 Der Wansem 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Health Law Advocates Inc — 56% of income from government
- Network of Engaged International Donors Global Inc — 11% of income from government
- Himalayan Cataract Project Inc — 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.