How much did VAN DEVENDER FAMILY FOUNDATION grant in FY2025?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 73% of VAN DEVENDER FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

animal agricultureleaguemethodist churchboys girlschristiansymphonypresbyterian church

2020

benefitsaint richardrichard catholic

2021

mendenhallmethodist churchpresbyterian churchscholarshipwildlifemuseumboys

2022

hopebiblesaintrichardpresbyteriangardencamp

2023

chapelchristianole missgarden

2024

stewpotole missmiss fcagardenmuseum

2025

missmuseumgarden

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2025 · 47 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k34 grants · $76k
$10k–50k9 grants · $147k
$50k–250k4 grants · $537k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$137k

Total assets

Largest grants

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISS FOUNDATION$202,500
JACKSON PREP FOUNDATION$200,000
CITY CHURCH$77,000
BUT GOD MINISTRIES$57,400
GRACE CITY CHURCH$25,000
SHORELINE COMMUNITY CHURCH$25,000
FRIENDS OF CHILDRENS HOSPITAL$25,000
SAINT RICHARD CATHOLIC SCHOOL$20,000
MISSISSIPPI SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC$12,000
OLE MISS FCA$10,000
GREATER EASTOVER NEIGHBORHOOD FOUNDATION$10,000
OREGON MEMORIAL CHURCH$10,000
ALL SAINTS' EPISCOPAL SCHOOL$10,000
YOUNG LIFE URBAN MS 18$7,450
WARREN COUNTY CHILDREN'S SHELTER$6,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $141k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13% — the area typically sits at 11%. 48% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

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

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$7.2M · 97 repeat orgs$615k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +57% since the first grant, against +35% for the ones you funded once.

97 repeat relationships — 33 still active in FY2025, 64 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

127

Total granted

$7.2M

$573k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+57%

+35%

Still filing today

39%

36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $42k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyHealthReligionInternationalOther

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

THE OLE MISS ATHLETICS FOUNDATION INC
3× · 2018–2023 · $807k · revenue +38%
BUT GOD MINISTRIES
8× · 2018–2025 · $490k · revenue +65%
MI
MAN IN THE MIRROR
5× · 2018–2024 · $70k · revenue +10%

Funded once

CC
CENTURY CLUB CHARITIESgraduated
one grant, 2018 · $101k · revenue +84%
FM
FBC MENDENHALL
one grant, 2021 · $50k
RS
REPUBLIC SCHOOLSgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +224%

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

04Your field

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.

Methodist Foundation of Mississippi

The methodist foundation of ms resources the church for effective ministry & fruitful generosity.

Religion

Mississippi Methodist Hospital

Mississippi methodist rehabilitation center provides comprehensive medical rehabilitation services to help people recover abilities and quality of life after a stroke, spinal cord injury, traumatic brain injury, neurological disease or…

Health

University of Southern Mississippi

The mission of the alumni association is to benefit the university of southern mississippi, its students, and alumni through upholding traditions, sponsoring activities, events, and publications.

Education

Mississippi Baptist Medical Center Inc

Mississippi baptist medical center, inc. maintains and carries on acute clinical services by offering a comprehensive range of services for patients.

Health

Mississippi Prison Chapel Foundation Inc

To build interfaith chapels on prison grounds in mississippi to provide imprisoned individuals with a facility to worship the lord in.

Religion

Child Evangelism Fellowship of Mississippi Inc

Our ministry vision is to reach Every Child Every Nation Every Day. We teach children the Gospel of Jesus Christ and disciple them in the Word of God.

—

Jobs for Mississippi Graduates Inc

To assist at-risk and disadvantaged youths in graduating from high school.

—

Homes of Hope for Children Inc

To serve children in crisis throughout mississippi by providing strong, christian homes to every child who lives on campus while ensuring that each child is loved unconditionally and has their physical, spiritual, and emotional needs met.

Human Services

United Methodist Volunteers in Miss

To connect and coordinate united methodist volunteers and their christian friends with persons in need of humanitarian assistance and spiritual encouragement.

Religion

The Mission Inc

The mission, inc. was established to 1. meet the needs of the lost, hurting and broken in north mississippi, 2. equip the person to walk in freedom and victory, and 3. work alongside local churches training believers to go out and serve…

Religion

Mercy House Minstries

Work program for teen challenge candidates, temporary housing, evaluations, gospel witness

Health

Advance Memphis

To empower adults in south memphis to break cycles of unemployment, establish economic stability, reconcile relationships, and restore dignity through knowledge, resources, and skills by the power of jesus christ

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities Inc and the most unlike its peers is Washington and Lee University. 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.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 32 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.9%1/107

the rest of the field

13%

1,586/12,393

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.

05the grantee network

95 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

93/95

Grantees still filing

67/95

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$5,841,644Education$956,130International$512,250Religion$178,000Human Services$140,900Recreation & Sports$104,150Health$69,150

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.

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.

Community Foundation for MississippiMS70.5× affinity32 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Mississippi · Ergon Foundation Inc · Feild Co-Operative Association · Selby and Richard McRae Foundation · Walker Foundation · Sam E & Burnice C Wittel Foundation · St Dominic - Jackson Memorial Hospital · Century Club Charities Inc · Wesley a Caldwell Foundation Inc · Telos Foundation Inc · The Pruet Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Of

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 organisation VAN DEVENDER 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

4get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: MISSISSIPPI SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

9 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 464387655 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on MISSISSIPPI SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue held over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 11% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Van Devender Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Van Devender Family Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

VAN DEVENDER FAMILY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

95 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Van Devender Family Foundation?

More from the funding graph

VAN DEVENDER FAMILY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

95 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Van Devender Family Foundation?

More from the funding graph