· Private foundation
Van Sloun Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k39 grants · $129k
- $10k–50k44 grants · $685k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $397k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TRUSTEES UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA | $175,000 |
| FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH | $60,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION | $56,800 |
| ALICE LLOYD COLLEGE | $55,000 |
| SOUTHCOAST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| MINNESOTA LANDSCAPE ARBORETUM | $40,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| NAVITY PREPATORY SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| OUR SISTERS' SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| AMERICA'S VETDOGS | $24,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION | $24,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION | $21,000 |
| MASS AUDUBON | $20,000 |
| NEW BEDFORD STAR KIDS | $20,000 |
| BLITHEWOLD INC | $20,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $146k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 86% 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.
99 repeat relationships: 46 still active in FY2024, 53 since wound down; 25 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, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $334k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $629k · revenue +105%
- ALALICE LLOYD COLLEGE8× · 2017–2024 · $360k · revenue +152%
- FHFRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER8× · 2017–2024 · $320k · revenue +27%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $21k
- CFCOASTAL FOODSHEDgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $12k · revenue +282%
- DMDennison Memorial Community Center Incgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +127%
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
How this is measured
85 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. 85 of the 166 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 TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALICE LLOYD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF FALL RIVER ↗
- Who funds AMERICA'S VETDOGS THE VETERANS K-9 CORPS INC ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA LANDSCAPE ARBORETUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BLITHEWOLD INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHCOAST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds Ducks Unlimited Inc ↗
- Who funds BEREA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds OUR SISTERS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Easter Seals Southwest Florida Inc ↗
- Who funds CAMP SUNSHINE AT SEBAGO LAKE INC ↗
- Who funds WESTPORT RIVER WATERSHED ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND AQUARIUM CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds INSTRIDE THERAPY INC ↗
- Who funds Meeting Street ↗
- Who funds LLOYD CENTER FOR THE ENVIRONMENT INC ↗
- Who funds NEADS INC ↗
- Who funds CROSS (CHRISTIANS REACHING OUT IN SOCIAL SERVICES) ↗
- Who funds MORRIS ANIMAL FOUNDATION ↗
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: Grimshaw-Gudewicz Charitable Foundation A Shabshelowitz Co-Trustee · The Minneapolis Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Rhode Island Community Foundation · Bristol County Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · United Way of Rhode Island Inc · The Carney Family Charitable Foundation · Margaret a Cargill Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Amica Companies Foundation · Philip Snyder Foundation · Eastern Bank Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Van Sloun Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Van Sloun Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Coastal Foodshed: 66% of income from government
- The Family Pantry- Damien's Place: 36% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
- Dennison Memorial Community Center Inc: 21% of income from government
- National Marine Life Center Inc: 16% of income from government
- Thrive Central Oregon: 12% of income from government
- Easter Seals Southwest Florida Inc: 12% of income from government
- New England Aquarium Corporation: 12% of income from government
- Southcoast Community Foundation Inc: 10% of income from government
- Northeastern University: 7% of income from government
- Perkins School for the Blind: 7% of income from government
- Evkids Inc: 4% of income from government
- Lloyd Center for the Environment Inc: 3% of income from government
- Fall River Historical Society: 2% of income from government
- Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc: 1% of income from government
- Neads Inc: 1% of income from government
- Bentley University: 1% of income from government
- Marion Art Center Inc: 1% of income from government
- Connecticut College: 0% of income from government
- Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc: 0% of income from government
- Our Sisters School: 0% of income from government
- The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Inc: 0% of income from government
- Choate Rosemary Hall Foundation Incorporated: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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