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Vanderark Foundation

Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$53k
Granted FY2026still arriving
51
Grants FY2026still arriving
18
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0183% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$192kReligion$84kPhilanthropy$27kArts & Culture$25kInternational$20kHealth$16kHuman Services$12kYouth Development$4kOther$0
02FY2026 · 51 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2026

  • Under $10k50 grants · $38k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
$200
Median grant
18
States reached
$111k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HOPE FELLOWSHIP CHURCH$14,700
CALVIN SEMINARY$6,700
CMMCJH$6,000
Individual grant recipient$3,375
DENVER CHRISTIAN SCHOOL$3,000
Individual grant recipient$2,750
PERKINS FOUNDATION$2,500
DENVER ART MUSEUM$1,800
LUKE SOCIETY$1,500
Individual grant recipient$1,500
DOCTORS CARE$1,000
WORLD RENEW$800
SWORD AND SHOVEL$600
Individual grant recipient$500
REHOBETH SCHOOL$400
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–26, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 95% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%BETTER TOGETHER: $200 → 11%OUR DAILY BREAD FOUNDATION: $500 → 10%OUR DAILY BREAD FOUNDATION: $300 → 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $500 → 8%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $100 → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $100 → 14%DENVER RESCUE MISSION: $1k → 12%DENVER RESCUE MISSION: $900 → 12%DENVER RESCUE MISSION: $700 → 12%DENVER RESCUE MISSION: $500 → 12%DENVER RESCUE MISSION: $500 → 12%DENVER RESCUE MISSION: $400 → 12%DENVER RESCUE MISSION: $300 → 12%DENVER RESCUE MISSION: $300 → 12%DENVER RESCUE MISSION: $300 → 12%SUN VALLEY YOUTH CENTER: $1k → 12%SUN VALLEY YOUTH CENTER: $400 → 12%SUN VALLEY YOUTH CENTER: $200 → 12%SUN VALLEY YOUTH CENTER: $200 → 12%SUN VALLEY YOUTH CENTER: $200 → 12%SUN VALLEY YOUTH CENTER: $200 → 12%SUN VALLEY YOUTH CENTER: $100 → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
WY
SD
OH
PA
NJ
CA
CO
VA
MD
NM
KS
TN
NC
SC
DC
OK
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$403k · 83 repeat orgs$59k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +2% for those funded once.

83 repeat relationships: 28 still active in FY2026, 55 since wound down; 22 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

83
102

Total granted

$403k
$28k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+2%

Still filing today

42%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
EducationHealthHuman ServicesInternationalReligionArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION
    4× · 2017–2020 · $103k · revenue +79%
  • DC
    DENVER CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS
    7× · 2018–2026 · $60k · revenue +192%
  • DA
    DENVER ART MUSEUM
    9× · 2017–2026 · $18k · revenue +7%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $3k
  • SM
    ST MARKS SCHOOL AND CHURCH
    one grant, 2025 · $2k
  • KP
    KNOX PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
    one grant, 2025 · $2k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
National Committee for Quality Assurance

Our mission: to improve the quality of health care.our vision: better health care. better choices. better health.

Health
2
Colorado Gives Foundation

We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.

Philanthropy
3
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
4
Christel House International Inc

Chi prepares graduates of the christel house schools operated by its affiliated entities, which chi funds and oversees, to achieve upward economic mobility, demonstrate good citizenship, and become empowered to identify and realize their…

International
5
Colorado Center On Law and Policy

Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.

Crime & Legal
6
Center for Improving Value in Health Care

To equip partners and communities in colorado and across the nation with the resources, services and unbiased data needed to improve health and health care. we help communities, organizations and individuals identify opportunities to…

Health
7
Banner -University Medical Group

Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.

Health
8
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
9
United States Naval Institute

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.

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10
Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health
11
International Center for Research On Women

The international center for research for women (icrw) is a global research institute, with a mission to advance rights and opportunities for women, girls, and structurally excluded populations with actionable evidence and solutions.

International
12
Allosource

Inspired by the gift of donation from our communities, allosource responsibly provides innovative cellular and tissue allografts to advance patient healing.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Denver Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Heritage Foundation. 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

70 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 70 of the 210 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
67/70
Grantees still filing
48/70
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PERKINS FOUNDATION: $28,450 · OtherPERKINS FOUNDATIONHOPE FELLOWSHIP: $23,700 · OtherHOPE FELLOWSHIPTHIRD CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCH: $19,200 · OtherTHIRD CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCHHOPE FELLOWSHIP: $18,000 · OtherHOPE FELLOWSHIPHOPE FELLOWSHIP CHURCH: $14,700 · OtherHOPE FELLOWSHIP CHURCHWorld Renew: $10,700 · OtherCALVIN SEMINARY: $7,800 · Other+145 more: $102,720 · Other+145 moreUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $103,200 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATIONDENVER CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS: $59,700 · EducationDENVER CHRISTIAN SCHOOLSCALVIN UNIVERSITY: $14,250 · EducationCALVIN UNIVERSITYKUYPER COLLEGE: $8,700 · Education+9 more: $3,100 · EducationDENVER ART MUSEUM: $17,835 · Arts & CultureCOLORADO SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $1,600 · Arts & CultureHERITAGE FOUNDATION: $700 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $100 · Arts & CultureDOCTORS CARE: $9,200 · HealthBENEVOLENT HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $700 · HealthINNER CITY HEALTH CENTER: $600 · Health+7 more: $1,550 · HealthDENVER RESCUE MISSION: $5,500 · Human ServicesSUN VALLEY YOUTH CENTER INC: $2,300 · Human ServicesOur Daily Bread Foundation: $800 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $500 · Human Services+3 more: $500 · Human ServicesPROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $1,100 · InternationalASSOCIATION FOR A MORE JUST SOCIETY -US: $700 · InternationalPARTNERS WORLDWIDE: $700 · InternationalFOOD FOR THE POOR INC: $500 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $300 · InternationalWORLD VISION INC: $200 · International+2 more: $200 · InternationalAMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY: $850 · ReligionSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $800 · ReligionThe Denver Institute: $800 · ReligionTABLE FOUNDATION COMPANY: $300 · ReligionLigonier Ministries Inc: $150 · ReligionClearly Reformed Inc: $100 · Religion
Other$225,270Education$188,950Arts & Culture$20,235Health$12,050Human Services$9,600International$3,700Religion$3,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $103,200 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDENVER CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS: $59,700 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetDENVER ART MUSEUM: $17,835 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCALVIN UNIVERSITY: $14,250 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetWorld Renew: $10,700 over 10y, 0.0% of budgetDOCTORS CARE: $9,200 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetKUYPER COLLEGE: $8,700 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetDENVER RESCUE MISSION: $5,500 over 10y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LUKE SOCIETY INC: $4,900 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Michigan: $2,600 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCHRISTIAN LIVING COMMUNITIES: $2,345 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSUN VALLEY YOUTH CENTER INC: $2,300 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetFine Arts Foundation: $1,850 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetCOLORADO SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $1,600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES: $1,450 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetRehoboth Christian School Assoc: $1,350 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $1,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY: $850 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Denver Institute: $800 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOur Daily Bread Foundation: $800 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHERITAGE FOUNDATION: $700 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetBENEVOLENT HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $700 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSAVE OUR YOUTH INC: $700 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetASSOCIATION FOR A MORE JUST SOCIETY -US: $700 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPARTNERS WORLDWIDE: $700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINNER CITY HEALTH CENTER: $600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION: $600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSAVE OUR YOUTH SOY: $600 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD FOR THE POOR INC: $500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR HEALTH PROGRESS: $400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOLORADO MEDICAL SOCIETY: $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTABLE FOUNDATION COMPANY: $300 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS COLORADO: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDENVER WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL DBA WORLDDE: $300 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TELOS PROJECT: $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJUDICIAL WATCH INC: $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHIGH LINE CANAL CONSERVANCY: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDENVER KIDS INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COLORADO HEALTH FOUNDATION: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT MEDSEND: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DENVER FOUNDATION: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLISTEN FOUNDATION INC: $200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds DENVER CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS ↗
  • Who funds DENVER ART MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds CALVIN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds World Renew ↗
  • Who funds DOCTORS CARE ↗
  • Who funds KUYPER COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds DENVER RESCUE MISSION ↗
  • Who funds THE LUKE SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds University of Michigan ↗
  • Who funds CHRISTIAN LIVING COMMUNITIES ↗
  • Who funds SUN VALLEY YOUTH CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds Fine Arts Foundation ↗
  • Who funds COLORADO SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES ↗
  • Who funds Rehoboth Christian School Assoc ↗

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.

Colorado Gives Founda…The Denver FoundationBarnabas FoundationThe Anschutz Foundati…Amg Charitable Gift F…Christian Community F…El Pomar FoundationEdgar and Elsa Prince…Mile High United Way …Rose Community Founda…The Eugene C and Flor…Stewardship Foundation
Colorado Gives FoundationCO25.6× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Barnabas Foundation · The Anschutz Foundation · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · El Pomar Foundation · Edgar and Elsa Prince Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · Rose Community Foundation · The Eugene C and Florence Armstrong Family Foundation Inc · Stewardship Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Vanderark Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Vanderark Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Feed the Children Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Food for the Poor Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
17report 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, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Vanderark Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Vanderark 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.

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 210 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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