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Vasicek Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$113k
Granted FY2024still arriving
34
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$208kHealth$133kEducation$100kEnvironment$82kRecreation & Sports$76kFood & Nutrition$72kYouth Development$33kHuman Services$32kOther$0
02FY2024 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k33 grants · $103k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$3,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY$10,000
LAFAYETTE PARTNERS IN EDUCATION$7,500
SAN FRANCISCO OPERA ASSOCIATION$7,500
SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY$6,000
PTA GREGORY GARDENS ELEMENTARY$6,000
SAN FRANCISCO CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC$6,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$5,000
SOAR FOR YOUTH$5,000
HIGH FIVES NONPROFIT FOUNDATION$5,000
NFINITO MA$5,000
MEALS ON WHEELS DIABLO REGION$3,000
BRADY CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE$3,000
MONUMENT CRISIS CENTER$3,000
SAN FRANCISCO BALLET$3,000
SAN FRANCISCO MARIN FOOD BANK$3,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $48k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%MEALS ON WHEELS DIABLO REGION: $6k → 9%MEALS ON WHEELS DIABLO REGION: $6k → 9%MEALS ON WHEELS DIABLO REGION: $5k → 9%MEALS ON WHEELS DIABLO REGION: $5k → 9%MEALS ON WHEELS DIABLO REGION: $3k → 9%MONUMENT CRISIS CENTER: $6k → 9%MONUMENT CRISIS CENTER: $5k → 9%MONUMENT CRISIS CENTER: $4k → 9%MONUMENT CRISIS CENTER: $3k → 9%MONUMENT CRISIS CENTER: $3k → 9%AGAPE VILLAGES INC: $2k → 9%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

NY
MA
NV
PA
RI
CA
TN
DC
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$785k · 53 repeat orgs$34k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.

53 repeat relationships: 33 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

53
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Total granted

$785k
$24k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+5%

Still filing today

74%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHealthEnvironmentRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesOther
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

  • SF
    SAN FRANCISCO CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $34k · revenue +4%
  • SF
    SOAR For Youth
    6× · 2019–2024 · $33k · revenue +55%
  • LP
    Lafayette Partners in Education
    5× · 2020–2024 · $33k · revenue +92%

Funded once

  • CO
    CORPORATION OF THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMSgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +35%
  • TH
    TAM HIGH FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +5%
  • LP
    LUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH
    one grant, 2021 · $4k · revenue -35%
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
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
2
San Francisco Challenge dba AmericaOne
Recreation & Sports
3
Sutter Bay Hospitals

MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…

Health
4
Silicon Valley Education Foundation

Who we are - silicon valley education foundation (svef) focuses on raising student performance in the critical areas of math and science across all 33 santa clara county school districts, and also adjoining san mateo and alameda counties.…

Community Improvement
5
National Science and Technology Medals Foundation Inc

The nstmf's mission is to build inclusive stem communities across the united states. fundamental to these communities are the significant, inspirational connections we foster between the individuals who have received national recognition…

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6
Chile-California Council

The Chile-California Council is a San Francisco-based nonprofit dedicated to developing and promoting joint endeavors and cooperative relations between Chile and California, as well as individuals, legal entities and other institutions in…

International
7
Sempervirens Fund

To ensure coast redwood forests in the santa cruz mountains thrive for generations to come. since 1900, sempervirens has protected more than 36,000 acres. learn more about our mission, vision, and strategic plan through 2030 at:…

Environment
8
Sutter Bay Medical Foundation

Mission statement: mission: caring for our patients first and our people always. vision: to be the most comprehensive, integrated and connected health system for getting and staying well. values: excellence - we deliver high-quality,…

Health
9
Earth & Space Research

Increase societal understanding of the earth system through scientific research and education.

Science & Tech
10
Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education
11
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
12
San Francisco Jazz Organization

The san francisco jazz organization (the organization) is a recognized international leader in jazz creation, presentation, and education. the organization explores the full spectrum of jazz, from the music's origins in the african…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is California State Parks Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Friends of Via. 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

48 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. 48 of the 65 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
48/48
Grantees still filing
32/48
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PLANNED PARENTHOOD: $50,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOODSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK: $24,000 · OtherSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANKREDWOOD (TAMALPAIS UNION) HIGH SCHOOL: $21,000 · OtherREDWOOD (TAMALPAIS UNION) HIGH SCHOOLSMILE TRAIN INC: $17,000 · OtherCORPORATION OF THE FINE ARTS: $16,000 · OtherMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $18,000 · OtherFOOD BANK OF CONTRA COSTA AND SOLANO: $23,000 · OtherFOOD BANK OF CONTRA COSTA AND SOLANOFriends of VIA: $21,500 · OtherFriends of VIABRADY CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE: $18,000 · OtherLEAGUE TO SAVE LAKE TAHOE: $16,000 · OtherBridge the Gap College Prep: $14,000 · Other+22 more: $149,000 · Other+22 moreSAN FRANCISCO OPERA ASSOCIATION: $51,500 · Arts & CultureSAN FRANCISCO OPERA…SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY: $48,000 · Arts & CultureSAN FRANCISCO SYMPH…SAN FRANCISCO BALLET ASSOCIATION: $25,000 · Arts & CultureSAN FRANCISCO BALLE…MARIN PERFORMING STARS: $6,000 · Arts & CultureSAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: $5,250 · Arts & CultureCORPORATION OF THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMS: $5,000 · Arts & CultureSOAR For Youth: $33,000 · Human ServicesSOAR For Yo…MEALS ON WHEELS DIABLO REGION: $25,000 · Human ServicesMEALS ON WH…MONUMENT CRISIS CENTER: $21,000 · Human ServicesMONUMENT CR…+1 more: $2,000 · Human ServicesSAN FRANCISCO CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC: $34,000 · EducationSAN FRANCI…Lafayette Partners in Education: $32,500 · EducationLafayette …TAM HIGH FOUNDATION: $4,500 · EducationTAM HIGH F…+3 more: $5,500 · Education+3 moreTOGETHER WE RISE: $19,500 · Recreation & SportsCALIFORNIA STATE PARKS FOUNDATION: $12,000 · Recreation & SportsTahoe Rim Trail Association: $8,000 · Recreation & SportsNFINITO MA: $7,500 · Recreation & SportsST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $17,000 · HealthHIGH FIVES NONPROFIT FOUNDATION: $10,000 · HealthAMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH: $9,000 · HealthSETTING SCOLIOSIS STRAIGHT FOUNDATION: $4,500 · HealthLUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH: $3,500 · Health+1 more: $500 · HealthNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $13,000 · EnvironmentSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $9,000 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL WORKING GROUP: $9,000 · EnvironmentNATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $5,000 · EnvironmentTHE WILDERNESS SOCIETY: $4,000 · EnvironmentPesticide Action Network North America: $3,000 · Environment
Other$387,500Arts & Culture$140,750Human Services$81,000Education$76,500Recreation & Sports$47,000Health$44,500Environment$43,000

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 budgetSAN FRANCISCO OPERA ASSOCIATION: $51,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY: $48,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC: $34,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSOAR For Youth: $33,000 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetLafayette Partners in Education: $32,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO BALLET ASSOCIATION: $25,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS DIABLO REGION: $25,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK: $24,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK OF CONTRA COSTA AND SOLANO: $23,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of VIA: $21,500 over 7y, 5.7% of budgetMONUMENT CRISIS CENTER: $21,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTOGETHER WE RISE: $19,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBRADY CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE: $18,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $18,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC: $17,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $17,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLEAGUE TO SAVE LAKE TAHOE: $16,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetBridge the Gap College Prep: $14,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $13,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetREGIONAL PARKS FOUNDATION: $12,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetGREGORY GARDENS ELEMENTARY PTA: $12,000 over 2y, 8.4% of budgetCALIFORNIA STATE PARKS FOUNDATION: $12,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHIGH FIVES NONPROFIT FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH: $9,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $9,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL WORKING GROUP: $9,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTahoe Rim Trail Association: $8,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetNFINITO MA: $7,500 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetPEOPLES RIGHTS FUND INC: $7,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetCHILDRENS HEALTH GUILD: $7,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetMARIN PERFORMING STARS: $6,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetACALANES BOOSTER CLUB: $6,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: $5,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCORPORATION OF THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTAM HIGH FOUNDATION: $4,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSETTING SCOLIOSIS STRAIGHT FOUNDATION: $4,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetACHIEVE TAHOE: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE WILDERNESS SOCIETY: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD EDUCATION INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH: $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDIABLO VALLEY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetAgape Villages Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAN LUIS COASTAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NEW VILLAGE SCHOOL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetERIC'S CORNER: $500 over 1y, 3.0% 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 SAN FRANCISCO OPERA ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY ↗
  • Who funds SAN FRANCISCO CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC ↗
  • Who funds SOAR For Youth ↗
  • Who funds Lafayette Partners in Education ↗
  • Who funds SAN FRANCISCO BALLET ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS DIABLO REGION ↗
  • Who funds SAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds FOOD BANK OF CONTRA COSTA AND SOLANO ↗
  • Who funds Friends of VIA ↗
  • Who funds MONUMENT CRISIS CENTER ↗
  • Who funds TOGETHER WE RISE ↗
  • Who funds BRADY CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds LEAGUE TO SAVE LAKE TAHOE ↗
  • Who funds Bridge the Gap College Prep ↗
  • Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds REGIONAL PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GREGORY GARDENS ELEMENTARY PTA ↗
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA STATE PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HIGH FIVES NONPROFIT FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH ↗
  • Who funds SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL WORKING GROUP ↗
  • Who funds Tahoe Rim Trail Association ↗
  • Who funds NFINITO MA ↗
  • Who funds PEOPLES RIGHTS FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds CHILDRENS HEALTH GUILD ↗

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.

East Bay Community Fo…Lowell Berry Foundati…Jewish Community Fede…Marin Community Found…Tahoe Community Found…The San Francisco Fou…Salesforce FoundationSilicon Valley Commun…The Blackbaud Giving …Esb Charitable Founda…United Way of the Bay…McNabb Foundation
East Bay Community FoundationCA18.1× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: East Bay Community Foundation · Lowell Berry Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Marin Community Foundation · Tahoe Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Salesforce Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Esb Charitable Foundation · United Way of the Bay Area · McNabb 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 Vasicek Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Vasicek Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    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.
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    How do I get to Vasicek Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Vasicek 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 65 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $114k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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