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Vaughn-Jordan Fdn-Blackrock

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.

$140k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$27k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0188% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$535kEnvironment$516kReligion$35kAnimals$25kArts & Culture$20kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $2k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $138k
$15,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$4.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COLUMBUS BOTANICAL GARDENS INC$27,000
NAT'L MUSEUM OF THE MIGHTY 8TH AIRFORCE$20,000
ARCHBOLD EXPEDITIONS$15,660
Individual grant recipient$15,000
STETSON UNIVERSITY INC$15,000
EARLHAM COLLEGE$15,000
ROLLINS COLLEGE$15,000
UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION$15,000
UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI$1,438
HEARTHSTONE BOTANICAL GARDENS$1,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 57% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%WHITEBARK PINE ECOSYSTEM FOUNDATION: $50k → 9%PALM BEACH ATLANTIC: $15k → 11%STETSON UNIVERSITY INC: $15k → 12%FRIENDS OF LEU GARDENS INC: $11k → 13%ARCHBOLD EXPEDITIONS: $16k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT: $36k → 11%KNOXVILLE BOTANICAL GARDENS & ARBORETUM: $12k → 12%SOUTHERN HIGHLANDS RESERVE: $100k → 13%PAUL J CIENER BOTANICAL GARDEN: $13k → 15%HUMANE SOCIETY OF BLUE RIDGE: $25k → 11%COLUMBUS BOTANICAL GARDENS INC: $27k → 18%UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION: $35k → 27%EARLHAM COLLEGE: $15k → 18%NORFOLK BOTANICAL GARDEN SOCIETY: $35k → 19%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $40k → 19%WHITEBARK PINE ECOSYSTEM FOUNDATION: $50k → 9%PALM BEACH ATLANTIC: $15k → 11%STETSON UNIVERSITY INC: $15k → 12%ARCHBOLD EXPEDITIONS: $15k → 16%SOUTHERN HIGHLANDS RESERVE: $50k → 13%EPWORTH UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $35k → 11%The Columbus Botanical Gardens Inc: $25k → 18%UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION: $25k → 27%EARLHAM COLLEGE: $15k → 18%PALM BEACH ATLANTIC: $15k → 11%STETSON UNIVERSITY INC: $15k → 12%ARCHBOLD EXPEDITIONS: $14k → 16%The Columbus Botanical Gardens Inc: $25k → 18%UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION: $15k → 27%PALM BEACH ATLANTIC: $15k → 11%STETSON UNIVERSITY INC: $15k → 12%ARCHBOLD EXPEDITIONS: $14k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION: $15k → 27%PALM BEACH ATLANTIC: $15k → 11%STETSON UNIVERSITY INC: $15k → 12%ARCHBOLD EXPEDITIONS: $12k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION: $13k → 27%PALM BEACH ATLANTIC: $15k → 11%STETSON UNIVERSITY INC: $15k → 12%ARCHBOLD EXPEDITIONS: $12k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION: $13k → 27%PALM BEACH ATLANTIC: $15k → 11%STETSON UNIVERSITY INC: $15k → 12%ARCHBOLD EXPEDITIONS: $12k → 16%PALM BEACH ATLANTIC: $15k → 11%STETSON UNIVERSITY INC: $15k → 12%ARCHBOLD EXPEDITIONS: $12k → 16%FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY FDN: $30k → 11%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

MT
IN
CT
VA
MD
TN
NC
GA
FL
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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$983k · 12 repeat orgs$267k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
10

Total granted

$983k
$246k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+65%

Still filing today

92%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationEnvironmentAnimalsOther
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

  • SH
    SOUTHERN HIGHLANDS RESERVE INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $150k · revenue +105%
  • SU
    STETSON UNIVERSITY INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $120k · revenue +6%
  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION
    6× · 2018–2025 · $115k · revenue +82%

Funded once

  • JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2024 · $40k · revenue +1%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT
    one grant, 2024 · $36k
  • NB
    NORFOLK BOTANICAL GARDEN INC
    one grant, 2023 · $35k · revenue +7%
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
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
2
Minnesota Landscape Arboretum Foundation

To support charitable, plant-based scientific, and educational activities exclusively for the benefit of the minnesota landscape arboretum of the university of minnesota

Environment
3
Fairleigh Dickinson University

Fairleigh dickinson university is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. the university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical…

Education
4
New York Botanical Garden

The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…

Environment
5
Wake Forest University

Wake Forest University, a 501(c)(3) institution of higher education, is dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in the liberal arts and in graduate and professional education. The organization is comprised of seven constituent parts: Wake…

Education
6
Sonoma Botanical Garden
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7
William Marsh Rice University

As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…

Education
8
Bok Tower Gardens Inc

To inspire a better and more beautiful world by sharing edward bok's legacy.

—
9
Chatham University

Chatham university prepares women and men to be world ready: to build lives of purpose and value and fulfilling work. (see continuation on schedule o)in addition to appropriate professional skills and liberal arts learning, chatham…

Education
10
Seton Hall University

Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education

—
11
Jenkins Arboretum & Gardens

The mission of the jenkins arboretum & gardens is to preserve natural, tranquil woodlands for community enjoyment, to showcase native plants and a world class collection of rhododendrons and azaleas, and to promote environmental…

Environment
12
Seattle University

Seattle University is dedicated to educating the whole person, to professional formation, and to empowering leaders for a just and humane world.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The University of Florida Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Southern Highlands Reserve Inc. 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

19 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. 19 of the 24 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
14/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

STETSON UNIVERSITY INC: $120,000 · EducationSTETSON UNIVERSITY INCTHE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION: $115,000 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATIONEarlham College Inc: $50,000 · EducationEarlham College IncUniversity of Miami: $45,000 · EducationUniversity of MiamiROLLINS COLLEGE: $45,000 · EducationROLLINS COLLEGEJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $39,994 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITYFLORIDA SOUTHERN COLLEGE: $34,434 · EducationFLORIDA SOUTHERN COLLEGEFLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 · EducationFLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INCTHE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $19,450 · EducationSOUTHERN HIGHLANDS RESERVE INC: $150,000 · EnvironmentSOUTHERN HIGHLANDS RESERVE INCWHITEBARK PINE ECOSYSTEM FOUNDATION: $100,000 · EnvironmentWHITEBARK PINE ECOSYSTEM FOUNDATIONTHE COLUMBUS BOTANICAL GARDENS INC: $77,000 · EnvironmentTHE COLUMBUS BOTANICAL GARDENS INCNORFOLK BOTANICAL GARDEN INC: $35,000 · EnvironmentNORFOLK BOTANICAL GARDEN INC+3 more: $34,500 · Environment+3 moreIndividual grant recipient: $120,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientARCHBOLD EXPEDITIONS INC: $107,235 · OtherARCHBOLD EXPEDITIONS INCUNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT: $36,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUTEPWORTH UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $35,000 · OtherEPWORTH UNITED METHODIST CHUR…NAT'L MUSEUM OF THE MIGHTY 8TH AIRFORCE: $20,000 · OtherNAT'L MUSEUM OF THE MIGHTY 8T…+2 more: $12,000 · OtherHUMANE SOCIETY OF BLUE RIDGE INC: $25,000 · Animals
Education$498,878Environment$396,500Other$330,235Animals$25,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSOUTHERN HIGHLANDS RESERVE INC: $150,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetSTETSON UNIVERSITY INC: $120,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION: $115,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetARCHBOLD EXPEDITIONS INC: $107,235 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetWHITEBARK PINE ECOSYSTEM FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 2y, 37% of budgetTHE COLUMBUS BOTANICAL GARDENS INC: $77,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetEarlham College Inc: $50,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Miami: $45,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetROLLINS COLLEGE: $45,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $39,994 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORFOLK BOTANICAL GARDEN INC: $35,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFLORIDA SOUTHERN COLLEGE: $34,434 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF BLUE RIDGE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $19,450 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPAUL J CIENER BOTANICAL GARDEN: $12,500 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetKNOXVILLE BOTANICAL GARDENS AND ARBORETUM: $12,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF LEU GARDENS INC: $11,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetFAIRCHILD TROPICAL BOTANIC GARDEN INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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.

Raymond James Charita…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Raymond James Charitable Endowment FundFL10.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Vaughn-Jordan Fdn-Blackrock funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Vaughn-Jordan Fdn-Blackrock. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • Archbold Expeditions Inc: 9% of income from government
  • University of Miami: 5% of income from government
  • Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Stetson University Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Rollins College: 0% of income from government
  • Florida Southern College: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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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Find your warmest path to Vaughn-Jordan Fdn-Blackrock 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 24 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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