· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS USA INC | $4,000 |
| WORLDREADER | $3,000 |
| HIMALAYAN CATARACT PROJECT | $3,000 |
| WAR CHILD USA | $3,000 |
| THE UMBRELLA ARTS CENTER | $2,500 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF PSE | $2,000 |
| HEALTH LAW ADVOCATES | $2,000 |
| ROOM TO READ | $2,000 |
| CONCORD FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY | $2,000 |
| SOCIAL GOOD FUND | $2,000 |
| HOUSEHOLD GOODS RECYCLING MINISTRY | $2,000 |
| ROOM TO READ | $2,000 |
| ADVANCING GIRLS' EDUCATION IN AFRICA | $2,000 |
| NEW ENGLAND INTERNATIONAL DONORS | $1,000 |
| ORGANIZATION FOR THE ASSABET RIVER | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +146% since the first grant, against +65% for those 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
How this is measured
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 -16%
- WWORLDREADERone grant, 2021 · $3k
- WCWAR CHILD USA INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue +521%
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.
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.
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How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 17 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- 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 SOCIAL GOOD FUND INC ↗
- Who funds CONCORD FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds HEALTH LAW ADVOCATES INC ↗
- Who funds ADVANCING GIRLS EDUCATION IN AFRICA INC ↗
- Who funds NETWORK OF ENGAGED INTERNATIONAL DONORS GLOBAL INC ↗
- Who funds ICON MUSEUM AND STUDY CENTER INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Van Der Wansem Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Van Der Wansem Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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