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Van Nuys Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k23 grants · $69k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $16k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| METHACTON SCHOOL DISTRICT | $16,000 |
| SELINSGROVE AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT | $6,000 |
| MIDDLECREEK AREA COMMUNITY YMCA | $6,000 |
| REGIONAL ENGAGEMENT CENTER | $6,000 |
| THE YMCA | $4,000 |
| RANDOM CANYON RIDING PROGRAM INC | $4,000 |
| ALL SAINTS EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $4,000 |
| KIDSGROVE INC | $3,000 |
| METHACTON EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| STRAWBERRY FIELDS INCORPORATED | $3,000 |
| THE JARED BOX PROJECT | $3,000 |
| SELINSGROVE AREA RECREATION INC | $3,000 |
| SUSQUEHANNA UNIVERSITY | $2,000 |
| SNYDER COUNTY LIBRARIES | $2,000 |
| CENTRE COUNTY PAWS INC | $2,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $65k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 78% 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.
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 +24% since the first grant, against -1% for the ones you funded once.
30 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k 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
- REREGIONAL ENGAGEMENT CENTER8× · 2017–2024 · $28k · revenue +188%
- MEMETHACTON EDUCATION FOUNDATION7× · 2018–2024 · $28k · revenue +24%
- SASELINSGROVE AREA RECREATION INC7× · 2018–2024 · $22k · revenue +109%
Funded once
- TCTRINITY COUNTRY NURSERY SCHOOLone grant, 2017 · $2k
- VTVariety the Childrens Charityone grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue -1%
- OLOUR LADY OF SACRED HEART HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2022 · $2k
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.
Provide clean safe fun and community oriented recreational opportunities to the residents of the greater susquehanna county area.
To care for injured and orphaned wild animals, rehabilitate them and release them into the appropriate habitat.
To make historical information about wyoming county, pa available to the public
Acquire and preserve property and information of historic value and/or interest concerning delaware county, pennsylvania. the society also operates a research library and museum.
Founded in 1945, the shippensburg historical society is a non-profit membership organizaiton dedicated to the collecting, preserving, and sharing the rich history of shippensburg, pennsylvania and the surronding area.
Preserve historical artifacts and provide education of wayne county pennsylvania
Maintenance of a fully equipped library and activities allied thereto, as a memorial to caspar schwenckfeld.
The mission of the mercer county historical society is to collect and preserve artifacts, manuscripts, published materials and records relating to mercer county's pre-history and history and use these to increase public awareness and…
The sedgwick county zoological society is dedicated to inspiring respect and conservation of wildlife and wild places through our commitment to providing excellent care and welfare for our animals, building connections between our guests…
A community center which provides a meeting place and programs for the recreation and social welfare of all age groups in the community.
The mission of the warren library association is to provide all citizens in its service area access to library materials and information services which address the needs and expand the aspirations of the community for formal and lifelong…
To serve as a fundraising and support organization for the sedgwick county zoological society, inc.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Giving Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Worcester Historical Society. 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 27 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% 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 12% 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.
24 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. 24 of the 39 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 WEST SNYDER RECREATION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds REGIONAL ENGAGEMENT CENTER ↗
- Who funds METHACTON EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SELINSGROVE AREA RECREATION INC ↗
- Who funds SNYDER COUNTY LIBRARIES INC ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF THE ROSES ↗
- Who funds CENTRE COUNTY PAWS INC ↗
- Who funds SWEET GRACE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds Greater Susquehanna Valley YMCA ↗
- Who funds FAR POINT ANIMAL RESCUE ↗
- Who funds SUSQUEHANNA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE JARED BOX PROJECT ↗
- Who funds The Hummels Wharf Fire Company Incorporated ↗
- Who funds PETER WENTZ FARMSTEAD SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Appalachia Horse Help & Rescue Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN LEGION POST 245 INC ↗
- Who funds THE WARD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ARTSQUEST ↗
- Who funds STRAWBERRY FIELDS INC ↗
- Who funds Red Corner Benefit Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY GIVING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SEAN F HOGAN SR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Variety the Childrens Charity ↗
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: Fern & Gladys Moyer Memorial Trust · The 1994 Charles B Degenstein Fdn · Degenstein Charitable Foundation · Community Giving Foundation · Ppl Foundation · Central Pennsylvania Food Bank · Guyer Foundation · Chubb Charitable Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Nuys 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.
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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