· Private foundation
Vaterstetten 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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of Vaterstetten Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Santa Fe Community Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2019, the last year Vaterstetten Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 5 organizations, $14k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Rotary Club of Oak Park River Forest | $3,375 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| Rotary Club of Santa Fe Foundation | $2,685 |
| Scott's House | $2,300 |
| WTTW | $1,000 |
| Rotary Club of Santa Fe Centro | $1,000 |
| Rotary Club of Houston Foundation | $552 |
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 (FY20–21, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against -2% for those funded once.
6 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2019, 2 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (too recent to call). Read against FY2019, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SHSCOTT'S HOUSE INC5× · 2019–2024 · $7k · revenue +325%
- WTWINDOW TO THE WORLD COMMUNICATIONS INC3× · 2019–2021 · $3k · revenue +19%
- SISARAH'S INN2× · 2020–2021 · $2k · revenue +17%
Funded once
- RCROTARY CLUB - OAK PARKRIVER FORESTone grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue -2%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $3k
- OPOak Park-River Forest Community Foundationone grant, 2021 · $2k
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.
Supporting other rotary charities in order to support and foster local, regional, national and international peace and understanding.
The purpose of the foundation is to support the local and international communities through donations to educational, community and international charities.
The Foundation was established to raise funds for the purpose of contributing to charitable and educational organizations in the local, national, and international community.
Taos Milagro Rotary Club provides college scholarships for local high school students, delivers literacy programs for local elementary school students, provides grants to local community organizations, and provides local support for…
he Rio Rancho Community Foundation is a primary source for philanthropy within Sandoval County. We connect people non-profits and resources to benefit all within the Region. We work with non-profits and philanthropists to raise money so…
The organization's primary exempt purposes are educational and charitable
Support local and international charities
Engage San Jose Leaders in meaningful service within our community and humanitarian projects around the world, while embracing opportunities for fellowship and enjoying extraordinary speakers.
To provide programs, services and scholarships to the local, regional andinternational communities for those in need. also to promote honesty,integrity and community service among its members.
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 13 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.
- Who funds SANTA FE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SCOTT'S HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Rotary Club of Santa Fe Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds ROTARY CLUB - OAK PARKRIVER FOREST ↗
- Who funds WINDOW TO THE WORLD COMMUNICATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds SARAH'S INN ↗
- Who funds The Rotary Club of Houston Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds SHELTERBOX USA INC ↗
- Who funds SANTA FE PRO MUSICA ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Rotary Club of Santa Fe ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Vaterstetten Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Vaterstetten Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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