· Public charity
Vassar College
The mission of VASSAR COLLEGE is to make accessible "the means of a thorough, well-proportioned and liberal education" that inspires each individual to lead a purposeful life.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 6 grants below total $136,670 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $85,009,408 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $84,872,738 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $35k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $101k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CLIMATE VAULT INC | $101,230 |
| THE ART EFFECT OF THE HUDSON VALLEY INC | $9,000 |
| DUTCHESS COUNTY PRIDE CENTER INC | $6,610 |
| ULSTER IMMIGRANT DEFENSE NETWORK INC | $6,610 |
| BRIELLE GRACE BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION INC | $6,610 |
| ANGELS OF LIGHT | $6,610 |
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 (FY18–25, $74k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 28% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 86% of Vassar College’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 48% of the giving stays in NY; read by stated purpose it is 14% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +23% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k 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
- FSFAMILY SERVICES INC5× · 2017–2022 · $45k · revenue +269%
- DCDUTCHESS COUNTY PRIDE CENTER INC4× · 2022–2025 · $30k · revenue +138%
- GSGRACE SMITH HOUSE INC3× · 2018–2023 · $21k · revenue +23%
Funded once
- PAPOUGHKEEPSIE ALLIANCE INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +414% · 28% of their budget
- HRHUDSON RIVER HOUSING INCone grant, 2024 · $9k · revenue 0%
- DODUTCHESS OUTREACH INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $8k · revenue +39%
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.
Lifting Up Westchester, Inc. provides life-changing support to people who have lost their housing or are struggling to meet other basic needs. They partner with those they serve to build a more secure future for themselves and their…
The children's home of poughkeepsie is one of the oldest child welfare agencies in the nation. on january 21, 1847, a group of poughkeepsie women met to form the female guardian society to care for the poor, abandoned and neglected in…
Provides programs dedicated to enhancing the quality of life for people living in poverty, adults with mental illness, victims of domestic violence, children with developmental delays and their families, people living with hiv-aids, and…
As a safe, supportive environment, the Hudson Valley LBGTQ Community Center provides services, professional resources, and programs that unite the lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans-gender, and queer community across lines of age, race, gender,…
See schedule oto make a positive difference in the lives and health status of individuals in the city of rochester, ny and western monroe county. we will educate our community, our providers, and future health care professionals in order…
Prevention of domestic violence and assistance to those affected by domestic violence.
Our mission is to provide skilled, compassionate, cost-effective care that promotes wellness and meets the community's healthcare needs.
Ywca is dedicated to empowering women and promoting peace, health, justice, freedom and dignity for all.
Through our proven care models, innovative programs, professional training, influential research and determined advocacy, andrus aims to be a national leader in shaping policies and practices that prevent and overcome the effect of…
To unite communities, resources, and partners to collaboratively address local needs, foster impactful programming, and enhance quality of life.
At caring for the hungry and homeless of peekskill (chhop), we believe that every person is entitled to safe and affordable housing and healthy nutritious food.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of the Dutchess-Orange Region Inc and the most unlike its peers is Community Matters 2 Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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.
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 CLIMATE VAULT ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds DUTCHESS COUNTY PRIDE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Finish Strong Wellness Center ↗
- Who funds GRACE SMITH HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds ULSTER IMMIGRANT DEFENSE NETWORK ↗
- Who funds REAL SKILLS NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds POUGHKEEPSIE ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds THE ART EFFECT OF THE HUDSON VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds HUDSON RIVER HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds DUTCHESS OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF NEWBURGH INC ↗
- Who funds ANGELS OF LIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds BRIELLE GRACE BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE DUTCHESS-ORANGE REGION INC ↗
- Who funds ELEANOR ROOSEVELT CENTER AT VAL-KILL INC ↗
- Who funds Community Matters 2 Inc ↗
- Who funds POUGHKEEPSIE FARM PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Ulster Literacy Association 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.
Open a dossier: Community Foundations of the Hudson Valley Inc · The Dyson Foundation · United Way of the Dutchess-Orange Region Inc · Ulster Savings Charitable Foundation · The Ascienzo Family Foundation · Jane W Nuhn Charitable Trust · The Treehouse Foundation of the Hudson Valley Inc · Charles D Fleischman Charitable Trust · Helen's Hope Foundation · James J McCann Charitable Trust · Field Hall Foundation · Henry L Kimelman Family Foundation
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 Vassar College 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.