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Vcj Family Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $340k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $360k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NATIONAL FOOTBALL FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $60,000 |
| YOUTH FRONTIERS | $50,000 |
| THE CENTER FOR BECOMING | $50,000 |
| FULLER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY | $50,000 |
| RESURGE INTERNATIONAL | $50,000 |
| MENLO CHURCH | $33,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF FOUNTAIN HIL | $30,000 |
| FH EXTENDED HANDS FOOD BANK | $30,000 |
| FOSTER YOUR FUTURE | $25,000 |
| FOUNTAIN HILLS PTO | $25,000 |
| FOUNTAIN HILLS COMMUNITY THEATRE | $25,000 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVMENT OF ARIZONA | $22,000 |
| YMCA SILICON VALLEY | $20,000 |
| BRIDGEMAKERS | $20,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $690k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 75% 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.
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 +35% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
35 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 7 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, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $215k 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
- FHFOUNTAIN HILLS PTO INC8× · 2018–2025 · $310k · revenue +177% · 52% of their budget
- RIRESURGE INTERNATIONAL8× · 2018–2025 · $192k · revenue +58%
- YMYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SILICON VALLEY7× · 2018–2025 · $165k · revenue +7%
Funded once
- FHFOUNTAIN HILLS COALITIONone grant, 2020 · $55k
- VAVENTURE ACADEMIESgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +54%
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE PENINSULone grant, 2021 · $40k
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.
Enterprise for youth empowers under-resourced san francisco youths to reach their potential through transformative paid internship experiences supported by a community of employers, caring adults, and peers.
Ai4all's mission is to ensure that the next generation of ai leaders reflects humanity. ai4all is transforming the pipeline of ai practitioners who will shape ai for the benefit of humanity.
Fce's mission is to increase the number of first-generation, low-income students of color from east palo alto, ca and surrounding communities who graduate with a degree from a four-year college or university. fce was founded out of a…
To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.
Bringing arizonans together to create a stronger and brighter future for our state.
College summit, inc. d/b/a peerforward (peerforward)'s mission is to unleash the power of positive peer influence to transform the lives of youth living in low-income communities by connecting them to college and careers. in low-income…
Future founders is building the nation's largest inclusive community of intentional young entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial-minded leaders.
With love and respect, we partner with opportunity youth to build the skillsets and mindsets that lead to lifelong learning, livelihood, and leadership. youthbuild strives to create a world where all young people are seen for their…
The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…
The arizona center for afterschool excellence is dedicated to the enhancement of child and youth development and educational achievement through quality afterschool programming.
Exalt youth serves youth involved in the criminal justice system, moving them away from incarceration towards re-engagement with education and meaningful job opportunities. our students come from some of the most economically depressed…
Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Youth Frontiers Inc and the most unlike its peers is Spero Collaborative. 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 20 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 11% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
38 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. 38 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 YOUTH FRONTIERS INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNTAIN HILLS PTO INC ↗
- Who funds RESURGE INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SILICON VALLEY ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF ARIZONA ↗
- Who funds SPERO COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE PENINSULA ↗
- Who funds FOSTER YOUR FUTURE ↗
- Who funds CAREMESSAGE ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL FOOTBALL FOUNDATION & COLLEGE HALL OF FAME INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR BECOMING ↗
- Who funds Twin Cities Rise ↗
- Who funds NCGA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VENTURE ACADEMIES ↗
- Who funds EAST PALO ALTO ACADEMY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EXTENDED HANDS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds EPACENTER ↗
- Who funds FOUNTAIN HILLS CHAMBER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR POLICY DESIGN ↗
- Who funds BRIDGEMAKERS ↗
- Who funds PRESERVE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LIFEMOVES ↗
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: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Bradford & Lauren Koenig Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Arizona Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Minneapolis Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust
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 Vcj Family Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.