Washington · Public charity
Vancouver School District Foundation
The foundation for vancouver public schools provides essential resources and opportunities for students to reach their full potential, through collaboration and partnership with our community, students, families, and vps staff.
- $569k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 2
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 2
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $446k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $346,247
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $346,247
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 5
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $20M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Vancouver School District Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 2 | $446k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 2 | $285k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 2 | $95k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 3 | $191k | 33% |
| FY2021 | 3 | $169k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 3 | $258k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 3 | $115k | 33% |
| FY2018 | 5 | $151k | 60% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vancouver Public School District | $1,803,495 | 9 | n/a |
| Council for the Homeless | $439,221 | 9 | 1% |
| Portland Youth Philharmonic Association | $31,808 | 1 | 3% |
| Police Activities League of Southwest Washington | $23,000 | 3 | 2% |
| South Puget Sound Community College Foundation | $20,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Corporation of Gonzaga University | $16,049 | 1 | 0% |
| Girls Inc of the Pacific Northwest | $6,000 | 1 | 0% |
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: The Firstenburg Foundation · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · The Oregon Community Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Vancouver School District Foundation
- How much does Vancouver School District Foundation give?
- Vancouver School District Foundation reported 2 itemized grants totaling $446,247, out of $569,412 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 5 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Vancouver School District Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (80%), Housing & Shelter (18%), Arts & Culture (1%).
- Who are Vancouver School District Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Vancouver Public School District ($1.8M), Council for the Homeless ($439k), Portland Youth Philharmonic Association ($32k).
- Does Vancouver School District Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Vancouver School District Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Firstenburg Foundation, M J Murdock Charitable Trust, Kaiser Foundation Hospitals.
- Where is Vancouver School District Foundation based?
- Vancouver School District Foundation is based in WA.
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