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Van Itallie 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.

$68k
Granted FY2025still arriving
19
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$6k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Environment$201kArts & Culture$169kPublic Benefit$42kReligion$38kAnimals$30kEducation$23kPublic Safety & Disaster$3kCommunity Improvement$2k
02FY2025 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$3,500
Median grant
4
States reached
$698k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WBGO NEWARK PUBLIC RADIO$5,500
AFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION$5,000
NATURAL RESOURCE DEFENSE COUNCIL$5,000
LA MAMA ETC$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
FRANKLIN LAND TRUST$4,500
DEMOCRACY NOW1$4,000
WAMC - NORTHEAST PUBLIC R$4,000
SHANTIGAR FOUNDATION$4,000
RIVERKEEPER$3,500
Individual grant recipient$3,500
SOUSA MENDES FOUNDATION INC$3,000
ALFORD LAND TRUST$3,000
WNYC RADIO NEW YORK$3,000
HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE$2,500
02The need
03

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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 88% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BERKSHIRE NATURAL RESOURC: $5k → 12%SHANTIGAR FOUNDATION: $6k → 14%WAMC - NORTHEAST PUBLIC R: $4k → 14%NATURAL RESOURCE DEFENSE COUNCIL: $5k → 17%AFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%WBGO NEWARK PUBLIC RADIO: $6k → 16%BERKSHIRE NATURAL RESOURC: $5k → 12%SHANTIGAR FOUNDATION: $6k → 14%WAMC - NORTHEAST PUBLIC R: $4k → 14%NATURAL RESOURCE DEFENSE COUNCIL: $5k → 17%AFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%WBGO NEWARK PUBLIC RADIO: $6k → 16%BERKSHIRE NATURAL RESOURC: $5k → 12%CITIZEN'S AWARENESS NETWK: $6k → 14%NATURAL RESOURCE DEFENSE COUNCIL: $5k → 17%AFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%WBGO NEWARK PUBLIC RADIO: $6k → 16%BERKSHIRE NATURAL RESOURC: $5k → 12%SHANTIGAR FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%WBGO NEWARK PUBLIC RADIO: $6k → 16%BERKSHIRE NATURAL RESOURC: $5k → 12%SHANTIGAR FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%WBGO NEWARK PUBLIC RADIO: $6k → 16%CITIZEN'S AWARENESS NETWK: $5k → 14%WBGO NEWARK PUBLIC RADIO: $6k → 16%CITIZEN'S AWARENESS NETWK: $5k → 14%WBGO NEWARK PUBLIC RADIO: $5k → 16%CITIZEN'S AWARENESS NETWK: $5k → 14%WBGO NEWARK PUBLIC RADIO: $5k → 16%ALFORD LAND TRUST: $6k → 12%LA MAMA ETC: $6k → 17%LA MAMA ETC: $6k → 17%LA MAMA ETC: $6k → 17%LA MAMA ETC: $6k → 17%LA MAMA ETC: $5k → 17%LA MAMA ETC: $5k → 17%LA MAMA ETC: $5k → 17%LA MAMA ETC: $5k → 17%FRANKLIN LAND TRUST: $5k → 14%FRANKLIN LAND TRUST: $5k → 14%FRANKLIN LAND TRUST: $5k → 14%FRANKLIN LAND TRUST: $5k → 14%FRANKLIN LAND TRUST: $5k → 14%DEMOCRACY NOW: $8k → 17%DEMOCRACY NOW: $8k → 17%DEMOCRACY NOW: $8k → 17%DEMOCRACY NOW: $7k → 17%DEMOCRACY NOW: $5k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 linein 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 — 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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$500k · 20 repeat orgs$6k to everyone else

20 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
3

Total granted

$500k
$6k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+21%

Still filing today

45%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

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

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentArts & CultureAnimalsEducationCommunity ImprovementInternationalOther

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

  • SF
    Shantigar Foundation Inc
    8× · 2017–2025 · $38k · revenue +18%
  • NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $31k · revenue +41%
  • AW
    AFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $30k · revenue +54%

Funded once

  • WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC
    one grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +21%
  • HISPANIC FEDERATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue +187%
  • DA
    DOWNTOWN ART CO
    one grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue -71%

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.

1
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
2
Environment Now
3
Conservation Law Foundation Inc

Conservation law foundation, inc. (clf) protects new england's environment for the benefit of all people and future generations. we use the law, science, and markets to create solutions that preserve and restore our natural resources,…

Environment
4
New Jersey Conservation Foundation

Recognizing that a healthy environment is critical to the well-being and survival of all living things, new jersey conservation foundation is devoted to preserving land and protecting natural resources throughout new jersey's (continued on…

Environment
5
Wilderness Conservation Foundation
Environment
6
Wild Landscapes Inc

Wild landscapes, inc. (wli) is dedicated to conserving large and connected landscapes globally significant to wildlife and crucial to local communities. our environmental conservation strategy is to empower communities, conservationists,…

Animals
7
The Quebec-Labrador Foundation Inc

The program mission of the quebec-labrador foundation u.s. is defined by a regional component (new england and eastern canada), and an international component, which ties our regional model to a global conservation network. qlf's program…

Philanthropy
8
Washington Forest Law Center

Dedicated to protecting the world's natural environment on behalf of the public by serving as a public interest law firm. refer to schedule o, part iii, line 4a, for list of litigated cases or advocacy work.

9
National Wildlife Federation

Unite all americans to ensure wildlife thrives in a rapidly changing world.

Animals
10
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
11
Ady Gil World Conservation
Animals
12
Adirondack Land Trust Inc

To forever conserve the forests, farmlands, waters and wild places that advance the quality of life of our communities and the ecological integrity of the adirondacks.

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wamc and the most unlike its peers is Shantigar Foundation 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

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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 23 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
8/12
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

LA MAMA ETC — $44,000 · OtherLA MAMA ETCWBGO NEWARK PUBLIC RADIO — $42,500 · OtherWBGO NEWARK PUBLIC RADIOShantigar Foundation Inc — $38,000 · OtherShantigar Foundation IncIndividual grant recipient — $36,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient — $32,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient — $22,250 · OtherIndividual grant recipientWNYC RADIO NEW YORK — $18,500 · OtherWNYC RADIO NEW YORKSOUSA MENDES FOUNDATION INC — $18,250 · OtherSOUSA MENDES FOUNDATION INCGVSHP — $12,250 · OtherTHEATER FOR NEW CITY — $10,000 · Other+3 more — $16,500 · Other+3 moreNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $31,000 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOURCES DEFE…FRANKLIN LAND TRUST INC — $27,000 · EnvironmentFRANKLIN LAND TRUST IN…RIVERKEEPER INC — $22,500 · EnvironmentRIVERKEEPER INCAlford Land Trust Inc — $22,000 · EnvironmentAlford Land Trust IncDEMOCRACY NOW PRODUCTIONS INC — $34,000 · Arts & CultureDEMOCRACY NOW…WAMC — $25,000 · Arts & CultureWAMCAFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC — $29,500 · AnimalsHAMPSHIRE COLLEGE TRUSTEES — $19,500 · EducationWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $2,500 · InternationalHISPANIC FEDERATION INC — $2,000 · Community Improvement
Other$291,250Environment$102,500Arts & Culture$59,000Animals$29,500Education$19,500International$2,500Community Improvement$2,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetShantigar Foundation Inc — $38,000 over 8y, 18% of budgetDEMOCRACY NOW PRODUCTIONS INC — $34,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $31,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetAFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC — $29,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFRANKLIN LAND TRUST INC — $27,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetWAMC — $25,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetRIVERKEEPER INC — $22,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetAlford Land Trust Inc — $22,000 over 8y, 11% of budgetHAMPSHIRE COLLEGE TRUSTEES — $19,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHISPANIC FEDERATION INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDOWNTOWN ART CO — $1,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budget
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 Shantigar Foundation Inc
  • Who funds DEMOCRACY NOW PRODUCTIONS INC
  • Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC
  • Who funds AFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds FRANKLIN LAND TRUST INC
  • Who funds WAMC
  • Who funds RIVERKEEPER INC
  • Who funds Alford Land Trust Inc
  • Who funds HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE TRUSTEES
  • Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC
  • Who funds HISPANIC FEDERATION INC
  • Who funds DOWNTOWN ART CO

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Van Itallie Foundation Inc 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 7%
  • Franklin Land Trust Inc7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Van Itallie Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Van Itallie 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 23 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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