How much did VANDY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION grant in FY2025?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 87% of VANDY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2021

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2022

religiousscientific

2023

scientific

2024

scientific

2025

religious

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2025 · 41 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k35 grants · $121k
$10k–50k6 grants · $111k

$4,000

Median grant

States reached

$15M

Total assets

Largest grants

PRINCE GEORGE WINYAH EPISCOPAL CHURCH$45,000
DUCKS UNLIMITED$21,250
MUSC SHAWN JENKINS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$15,000
MUSC FOUNDATION$10,000
ST FRANCES HUMANE SOCIETY$10,000
SMITH MEDICAL CLINIC$10,000
SAMARITAN'S PURSE$5,000
HOPE FOR UKRAINE$5,000
JOHN'S HOPKINS UNIVERSITY$5,000
GREAT CAMP SAGAMORE$5,000
HUGS FOR HORSES$5,000
WALLACE PATE FOUNDATION$5,000
DANNY & RON'S RESCUE$5,000
JOE MARTIN ALS FOUND$5,000
TIDELANDS HEALTH FOUNDATION$5,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY25–25, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10% — the area typically sits at 14%. 0% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$1.3M · 40 repeat orgs$106k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +92% since the first grant, against -5% for the ones you funded once.

40 repeat relationships — 33 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.3M

$34k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+92%

-5%

Still filing today

30%

33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $72k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureEducationReligionHuman ServicesAnimalsInternationalOther

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

SM
SMITH MEDICAL CLINIC
5× · 2021–2025 · $50k · revenue +223%
HH
HARBOR HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
5× · 2021–2025 · $33k · revenue +27%
GC
GEORGETOWN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY
5× · 2021–2025 · $21k · revenue +94%

Funded once

TH
TARA HALL HOME FOR BOYS
one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -59%
TA
THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES
one grant, 2021 · $5k
BG
BROOKGREEN GARDENSgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +31%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

The Charleston Museum

To educate Charleston area residents and visitors about the natural and cultural history of the South Carolina Lowcountry through collections, exhibitions, preservation, conservation, research and related programming.

Arts & Culture

Carolina Art Association

The mission of the gibbes museum of art is to enhance lives through art by engaging people of every background and experience with art and artists of enduring quality; collect and preserve the art that touches charleston; and provide…

Arts & Culture

Southampton History Museum

The Southampton History Museum preserves and promotes the history and culture of Southampton by engaging diverse audiences in our shared heritage.

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South Carolina Artisans Center

The center displays the work of over 230 sc artists on a consignment basis. educational and cultural demonstrations are scheduled on a regular basis to the public.

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Charlotte Museum of History

The charlotte museum of history educated a broad public audience about the founding story of charlotte and mecklenburg county.

Arts & Culture

Georgia Historical Society

See schedule o for complete description.georgia historical society (ghs) is the premier independent statewide institution responsible for collecting, examining, and teaching georgia history. ghs houses the oldest and most distinguished…

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South Carolina Humanities Council

The mission of south carolina humanities council, inc. is to enrich the cultural and intellectual lives of south carolinians. the organization seeks to increase public understanding of and support for the humanities by telling the human…

Arts & Culture

Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of

Cheekwood's mission is to celebrate and preserve cheekwood as a historical landmark where beauty and excellence in art and horticulture nurture the spirit and serve as inspiration for a diverse and broad audience. cheekwood will be a…

Arts & Culture

South Carolina Aquarium

Our mission is to inspire conservation of the natural world by exhibiting and caring for animals, by excelling in education and research, and by providing an exceptional visitor experience.

Animals

Coastal Georgia Historical Society

The mission of the Society is to connect people to Coastal Georgia's dynamic history through the stories we share and the collections we preserve and to continue the vision of the residents who formed the Society, to lead in the…

Arts & Culture

Cultural and Heritage Commission

To communicate and preserve the natural and cultural histories of the carolina piedmont, inspiring a lifetime of learning.

Arts & Culture

South Carolina National Heritage

The organization's primary mission is a grassroots initiative that advances sustainable development of natural, cultural, and historic resources for enhanced quality of life and economic revitalization of communities in south carolina.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Miracle Hill Ministries Inc and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

17 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

17/17

Grantees still filing

13/17

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$1,210,275Arts & Culture$65,000Education$47,050Religion$27,500Animals$16,000Human Services$14,500Housing & Shelter$5,000

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.

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.

Frances P Bunnelle FoundationSC20.3× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Frances P Bunnelle Foundation · Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation · Coastal Community Foundation of South · South Carolina Humanities Council · Waccamaw Community Foundation · The K Foundation · South Carolina Christian Foundation · International Paper Company Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Network for Good

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 organisation VANDY CHARITABLE 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: GEORGETOWN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~13 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 5 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

5 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +94% since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 570830055 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on GEORGETOWN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 13 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 10% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Vandy Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Vandy Charitable Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

VANDY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

17 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Vandy Charitable Foundation?

More from the funding graph

VANDY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

17 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Vandy Charitable Foundation?

More from the funding graph