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VC Fund
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $8k
- $10k–50k19 grants · $333k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $390k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| St Gregory of Nyssa Episcopal Churc | $152,317 |
| New Heights Church | $150,000 |
| ALS Association of Oregon and SW Wa | $88,000 |
| Ovarian Cancer of OR SW WA | $42,317 |
| Family Promise of Tualatin Valley | $30,000 |
| La Salle Catholic College Prepatory | $30,000 |
| Meals On Wheels of Contra Costa | $20,000 |
| Habitat for Humanity East Bay | $20,000 |
| Hull Foundation | $20,000 |
| Columbia Gorge CASA | $20,000 |
| St John Fisher | $17,000 |
| Hood River Composite | $15,000 |
| Altadena United Methodist Church | $15,000 |
| St Mark's Episcopal Church | $15,000 |
| Western Seminary | $14,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +37% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
41 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 10 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, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $93k 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
- WHWEST HILLS CHRISTIAN SCHOOL8× · 2017–2025 · $614k · revenue +26%
Victory Academy Inc6× · 2018–2024 · $120k · revenue +42%- CGCOLUMBIA GORGE CASA5× · 2020–2025 · $64k · revenue +119%
Funded once
- VAVICTOR ACADEMYone grant, 2017 · $85k
- HCHeartland Churchone grant, 2022 · $55k
- WCWESTSIDE CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +14%
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.
Faith Family Hospitality's mission is to support families experiencing homelessness to achieve sustainable self-sufficiency in a timely and dignified manner. This interfaith volunteer effort coordinates the work of 30 diverse Fort Collins…
Hope Solutions provides permanent affordable housing coupled with well-executed support services to people who are homeless or at risk to become homeless in Contra Costa County. Support services are individualized for each person or family…
Family connections christian adoptions exists to assist the waiting children of the world into permanent, loving families. it is our belief that god's love is best expressed in the family. the work of fcca is a living expression of our…
Seeking to put God's love into action, Habitat for Humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope to realize our vision of a world where everyone has a decent place to live. Columbia Gorge Habitat for Humanity adheres…
The mission of christian family care is to strengthen families and serve at-risk children in the name of jesus christ. the outcome of our work results in building flourishing families and communities focusing on three pillars: preserve,…
Covenant house is dedicated to serving all of god's children with absolute respect and unconditional love to help youth experiencing homelessness and to protect and safeguard all youth in need.
To eliminate racism, empower women and promote peace, justice, freedom and dignity for all.
To help families with children in our community who are situationally homeless achieve sustainable independence through a community based response by providing temporary housing, usually 60-90 days, along with case management.
Casa is a refuge, providing protection and education for people caught in the cylces of domestic violence, sexual assault and child assault. Casa is a healing community where women and children can receive the nurturing and support…
The mission of the organization is to ensure safety and stability for people who are battered, abused, homeless or at risk; to create public awareness about the epidemic of violence; and to mobilize the community to prevent violence and…
The mission is to end relationship and sexual violence by being a catalyst for caring communities and social justice. the vision is for all people to live full, free, expressive, and empowered lives in a safe, healthy, vibrant, and…
To assure the safety and well-being of children and to create heathly families by providing: assessment and intervention services; a temporary home for children at risk of abuse, neglect, or homelessness; education, prevention and advocacy…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Path Home and the most unlike its peers is Metro Portland New Car Dealers Charitable Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
32 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. 32 of the 81 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 WEST HILLS CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Victory Academy Inc ↗
- Who funds COLUMBIA GORGE CASA ↗
- Who funds HELPING HANDS AGAINST VIOLENCE INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY EAST BAY SILICON VALLEY ↗
- Who funds WESTSIDE CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC SCHOOL OF RELIGION ↗
- Who funds Family Promise of Tualatin Valley ↗
- Who funds Winter Nights Family Shelter Inc ↗
- Who funds FISH ↗
- Who funds COMPASSION FIRST ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF ALAMEDA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds Discovery Counseling Center ↗
- Who funds HOPE UNLIMITED FAMILY CARE CENTER ↗
- Who funds KIDS INTERVENTION AND DIAGNOSTIC SERVICE CENTER ↗
- Who funds Stillman College ↗
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: Salesforce Foundation · The Oregon Community Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · Greenfish Foundation · Charis Fund · Shell USA Company Foundation · Lilly Endowment Inc · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · The San Francisco Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
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 VC Fund 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.
- Helping Hands Against Violence Inc — 48% of income from government
- Columbia Gorge Casa — 1% 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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