· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Vankep Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Vankep Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
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