· Private foundation
Vaughan Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN | $5,089 |
| FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH UNIVERSAL CITY | $2,250 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS SAN ANTONIO | $2,000 |
| GIZMOS GIFT | $2,000 |
| THE AGAPE MINISTRY | $2,000 |
| LIGHTSHINE RECORDINGS | $2,000 |
| FIRST BAPTIST ACADEMY | $1,292 |
| FRIENDS OF UNIVERSAL CITY LIBRARY | $1,250 |
| RANDOLPH AREA CHRISTIAN ASSISTANCE | $1,000 |
| OLYMPIA OTTERS SWIM CLUB | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $803 |
| COMPASSION INTERNATIONAL | $516 |
| CHRIST THE KING LUTHERAN CHURCH | $500 |
| HOMES FOR THE HOMELESS | $492 |
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 (FY25–25, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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
7 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. 7 of the 17 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.
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 Vaughan Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Vaughan Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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