How much did VC Fund grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 67% of VC Fund’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

religious activities

2019

religious activities

2020

homelessportlandreligious activities

2021

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2022

churchportland

2023

church

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k2 grants · $14k
$10k–50k21 grants · $366k
$50k–250k3 grants · $310k

$20,000

Median grant

States reached

$747k

Total assets

Largest grants

New Heights Church$150,000
St Gregory of Nyssa Episcopal Churc$100,000
ALS Association of Oregon and SW Wa$60,000
Ovarian Cancer of OR SW WA$35,000
Calvary Chapel$30,000
Providence Portland Medical Foundat$30,000
Mt View Fellowship Free Methodist C$25,000
St John Fisher$25,000
Winter Nights Family Shelter Inc$20,000
La Salle Catholic College Prepatory$20,000
Habitat for Humanity East Bay$20,000
Meals on Wheels of Alameda County$20,000
Victory Academy$20,000
Pacific School of Religion$15,000
OAASIS$15,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8% — the area typically sits at 8%. 33% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$2.8M · 35 repeat orgs$649k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +89% since the first grant, against +50% for the ones you funded once.

35 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.8M

$469k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+89%

+50%

Still filing today

40%

44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $180k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHousing & ShelterHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentCrime & LegalFood & NutritionOther

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

WH
West Hills Christian School
7× · 2017–2023 · $604k · revenue +27%
Victory Academy
6× · 2018–2024 · $120k · revenue +90%
HH
Helping Hands Against Violence
7× · 2017–2023 · $57k · revenue +106%

Funded once

VA
VICTOR ACADEMY
one grant, 2017 · $85k
HC
Heartland Church
one grant, 2022 · $55k
RA
ROY AND DORA WHITMAN ACADEMY
one grant, 2019 · $50k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Casa of Solano County

Advocates for abused, neglected and other identified children within the court system, with the belief that every child is entitled to a safe and stable home.

Civil Rights

Washington Court Appointed Special Advoc

CASA's Goal is to provide a carefully researched background of the children who are experiencing abuse and neglect to help the court make a sound decision about the childrens future.

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Wayfinder Family Services

Wayfinder's mission is to ensure that children, youth and adults facing challenges always have a place to turn.

Human Services

Welcome Home Coalition

Welcome Home is an alliance in the Portland Metropolitan Region that uses its collective resources to build a movement for housing justice. We believe that everyone deserves to have an affordable and safe home in a neighborhood of their…

Community Improvement

Cascades Academy of Central Oregon

Cascades Academy is an engaged, vibrant community that weaves challenging academics with experiential learning to inspire socially responsible individuals ready (SEE SCH O)

Education

Laurel House Inc dba Hope Harbor

The mission of Laurel House (dba Hope Harbor) is providing a home for teens in crisis, transforming lives, and strengthening families. Laurel House has the only long-term youth shelters in Orange County, CA for runaway, homeless and…

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Raphael House of Portland

To engage our community in non-violent living & providing a safe haven from domestic violence.

Human Services

Christian Hope Association

Provide transitional housing for women and their children. Assist families in crisis, helping them in their recovery process. Provide pregnancy support for crisis pregnancy. Provide food and assistance to our community, helping to break…

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Wilmington Hope House

The Hope House Mission is to welcome as Christ welcomed women and accompanying children in need and to offer love, hope, and compassion within a Christian ethos to foster and facilitate the restoration of human dignity, self-respect, and…

Human Services

Columbia Gorge Habitat for Humanity

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…

Housing & Shelter

Harvest Home Inc

Harvest Home transforms the lives of homeless, pregnant women and their children by providing housing, support, and programs that equip women to become great mothers.

Human Services

Childrens Receiving Home

The Childrens Receiving Home of Sacramento is committed to positively impacting the lives of children, youth, and families affected by abuse, neglect, behavioral health issues, and trauma in California.

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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. 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 41 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/33

the rest of the field

11%

2,735/24,446

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.

05the grantee network

27 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

27/27

Grantees still filing

25/27

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$2,361,421Education$841,500Housing & Shelter$66,000Crime & Legal$50,000Youth Development$45,000Food & Nutrition$35,000International$33,000

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.

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.

East Bay Community FoundationCA12.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: East Bay Community Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · The Oregon Community Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 organisation 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

12get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Columbia Gorge CASA.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~13 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 7 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +99% since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 208443275 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on Columbia Gorge CASA, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 13 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 7% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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How do I get to VC Fund?

Find your warmest path to VC Fund through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

VC Fund

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

27 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to VC Fund?

More from the funding graph

VC Fund

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

27 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to VC Fund?

More from the funding graph