· Private foundation
Vankep Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $14k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VARIOUS CHARITIES | $13,870 |
| ST JAMES PARISH | $5,000 |
| CARMELITE MINISTRY OF ST THERESE | $5,000 |
| ST PETER'S CHURCH IN THE LOOP | $3,000 |
| BASILICA OF ST JOSAPHAT | $2,150 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY22–22, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 5%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein 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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
6 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 3 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, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- VCVARIOUS CHARITIES8× · 2017–2024 · $117k
- BOBASILICA OF ST JOSAPHAT8× · 2017–2024 · $38k
- IHIMMACULATE HEART MEDIA INC3× · 2019–2021 · $6k · revenue 0%
Funded once
- BOBASILICA OF ST JOSAPHAT FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $6k
Augustine Institute Incgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +167%- SAST AUGUSTINE UNIVERSITY PARISHone grant, 2023 · $5k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Word on fire catholic ministries is a global media apostolate that supports the work of bishop robert barron and reaches millons of individuals to draw them back to or into the catholic faith.
Lifesitenews.com publishes approximately 4,000 articles covering issues concerning life, family, faith and cultural issues. these articles reach over 20 million readers, keeping them well informed about social issues of great importance to…
Educating on pro-life issues
Ave Maria Communications (AMC)employs radio, internet and other media to offer news, analysis, teaching, devotion and music to demonstrate Catholic values.
The Matter of Life exists to create Gospel-centered documentary films that educate and inspire people about the pro-life vs. pro-choice issue.
Catholic answers is an apostolate dedicated to serving christ by bringing the fullness of catholic truth to the world. we help good catholics become better catholics, bring former catholics home, and lead non-catholics into the fullness of…
To educate the public about abortion
Defend the right to life of all citizens of our state, whether born or preborn, young, old, disabled, or terminally ill. we affirm that the right to life exists at the moment of fertilization and extends until natural death.
Prevent abortion by wearing a life-saving message.
To inform, instruct and inspire people through the media about the sacred scriptures and teachings of the roman catholic church
To make euthanasia, infanticide, abortion and destruction of human embryos socially, ethically, and legally unacceptable solutions to human problems and to promote positive alternatives to these acts.
Religious education through radio programs and media.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Immaculate Heart Media Inc and the most unlike its peers is Rosary Evangelization Apostolate Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 20 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds IMMACULATE HEART MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds Augustine Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds FAMILY LIFE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds LIFE'S CONNECTION INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE REPERTORY THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds PRO-LIFE WISCONSIN EDUCATION TASK FORCE INC ↗
- Who funds DAVID HOROWITZ FREEDOM CENTER ↗
- Who funds ROSARY EVANGELIZATION APOSTOLATE INC ↗
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.
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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 organization Vankep Family Foundation Inc 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.
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 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.