· Private foundation
Vbs Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k23 grants · $432k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $70k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CENTER FOR HUMANE TECHNOLOGY | $70,000 |
| FACING HISTORY AND OURSELVES | $40,000 |
| KRIPALU CENTER FOR YOGA AND HEALTH | $40,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $32,000 |
| INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE | $30,000 |
| TANZANIAN CHILDRENS FUND | $30,000 |
| OCEANA | $25,000 |
| MIND BODY SOLUTIONS | $25,000 |
| GBH | $20,366 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $20,000 |
| FIRE FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| WORLD WILDLIFE FUND | $15,000 |
| AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE | $15,000 |
| UNITED HATZALAH | $15,000 |
| MUSICA FRANKLIN | $15,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $412k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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 +35% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
49 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k 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
- TTTHE TANZANIAN CHILDRENS FUND INC8× · 2017–2024 · $172k · revenue +35%
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC7× · 2017–2024 · $170k · revenue +98%- FHFACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC8× · 2017–2024 · $156k · revenue +18%
Funded once
- MSMEDICINS SANS FRONTIERS USAone grant, 2019 · $25k
- AHANIMAL HOUSEone grant, 2017 · $15k
- DPDOULA PROGRAM TO ACCOMPANY AND COMFORone grant, 2019 · $8k
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.
Marin theatre company is the bay area's premier mid-size theater and the leading professional theater in the north bay. mtc produces a six-show season of provocative plays by passionate playwrights from the 20th century and today in an…
To engage audiences and artists alike with exceptional performances, inspired writing and superior productions that motivate us to think harder, to feel more deeply, to laugh more fully and to reflect on ourselves and the world in which we…
Ford's theatre explores the legacy of president abraham lincoln and celebrates the american experience through theatre and education.
To create, to present, to preserve, and to extend the great repertoire of classical dancing through exciting performances and educational programming of the highest quality, presented to the widest possible audience. american ballet…
The american theatre guild is dedicated to providing the experience of live theatre to foster passion, inspire creativity and empower youth within our communities.
The irish repertory theatre (the "theatre") mission is to bring works by irish and irish american masters and contemporary playwrights to american audiences, to provide a context for understanding the contemporary irish american experience…
To invest in america's finest artists and illuminate the value of artists to society.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…
Theaterworks' mission is to share intimate stories that engage all audiences. it creates exceptional contemporary theater that entertains, celebrates new voices, and invites meaningful conversations. its vision is to inspire a more…
The mission of new york city center is to be new york city's leading center for dance and musical theater. dedicated to making the arts accessible to the broadest possible audience, city center seeks to create a welcoming environment and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Facing History & Ourselves Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hearts and Noses Hospital Clown Troupe Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 62 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
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 KRIPALU CENTER FOR YOGA & HEALTH ↗
- Who funds THE TANZANIAN CHILDRENS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds FACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC ↗
- Who funds MUSICA FRANKLIN INC ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN REPERTORY THEATRE CO INC ↗
- Who funds THE CONCORD PLAYERS INC ↗
- Who funds Hearts and Noses Hospital Clown Troupe 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.
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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 Vbs Foundation Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Musica Franklin Inc — 29% of income from government
- Greater Boston Stage Company — 2% of income from government
- American Repertory Theatre Co Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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