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Vancouver Foundation

Vancouver Foundation is Community Inspired and connects the generosity of donors with the energy ideas and time of people in the community to make meaningful and lasting impacts in neighborhoods and communities. In 2020 Vancouver Foundation made approximately 5,900 grants to over 1,900 unique organizations.

$84M
Granted FY2020
3
Itemized grants FY2020
3
Organizations funded FY2020
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Itemized, FY2020
$72k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2020
$10,071
Largest grant, FY2020
$56,513
States reached, FY2020
3
Total assets, FY2020
$1.1B

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2020, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
University of California Davis$56,5131n/a
Georgia Institute of Technology$10,0711n/a
The New School$5,52010%

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Find your warmest path to Vancouver Foundation 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.

About Vancouver Foundation

How much does Vancouver Foundation give?
Vancouver Foundation reported 3 itemized grants totaling $72,104, out of $83,815,545 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2020 IRS filing.
What does Vancouver Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2020, its largest causes are Education (86%), Science & Tech (14%).
Who are Vancouver Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2020: University of California Davis ($57k), Georgia Institute of Technology ($10k), The New School ($6k).

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 3 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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