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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.

$710k
Granted FY2025still arriving
25
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Youth Development$967kEducation$772kReligion$460kInternational$329kHuman Services$321kFood & Nutrition$178kCommunity Improvement$156kArts & Culture$140kOther$0
02FY2025 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k17 grants · $340k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $360k
$22,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATIONAL FOOTBALL FOUNDATION$100,000
Individual grant recipient$60,000
RESURGE INTERNATIONAL$50,000
THE CENTER FOR BECOMING$50,000
YOUTH FRONTIERS$50,000
FULLER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY$50,000
MENLO CHURCH$33,000
FH EXTENDED HANDS FOOD BANK$30,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF FOUNTAIN HIL$30,000
FOSTER YOUR FUTURE$25,000
FOUNTAIN HILLS COMMUNITY THEATRE$25,000
FOUNTAIN HILLS PTO$25,000
JUNIOR ACHIEVMENT OF ARIZONA$22,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE PENINSUL$20,000
BRIDGEMAKERS$20,000
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:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%NEIGHBORHOOD CHRISTIAN CENTER OF AL: $5k → 13%YOUTH FRONTIERS: $50k → 11%YOUTH FRONTIERS: $50k → 11%YMCA SILICON VALLEY: $50k → 8%YOUTH FRONTIERS: $50k → 11%YMCA SILICON VALLEY: $25k → 8%ASSOCIATION FOR GROWTH AND ED: $10k → 10%YOUTH FRONTIERS: $50k → 11%YMCA SILICON VALLEY: $20k → 8%YOUTH FRONTIERS: $50k → 11%YMCA SILICON VALLEY: $20k → 8%YOUTH FRONTIERS: $50k → 11%YMCA SILICON VALLEY: $20k → 8%YOUTH FRONTIERS: $50k → 11%YMCA SILICON VALLEY: $20k → 8%YOUTH FRONTIERS: $50k → 11%YMCA SILICON VALLEY: $10k → 8%BRANCH SERVICES: $5k → 7%FOSTER YOUR FUTURE: $25k → 11%FOSTER YOUR FUTURE: $25k → 11%FOSTER YOUR FUTURE: $20k → 11%FOSTER YOUR FUTURE: $20k → 11%FOSTER YOUR FUTURE: $15k → 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

MN
IL
MA
CA
CO
VA
AZ
NC
AL
GA
TX
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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.3M · 35 repeat orgs$602k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against +12% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

35
37

Total granted

$3.3M
$387k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+12%

Still filing today

49%
41%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $215k 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
Human ServicesEducationInternationalYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureReligionOther
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

  • FH
    FOUNTAIN HILLS PTO INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $310k · revenue +99% · 52% of their budget
  • RI
    RESURGE INTERNATIONAL
    8× · 2018–2025 · $192k · revenue +58%
  • YM
    YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SILICON VALLEY
    7× · 2018–2025 · $165k · revenue +7%

Funded once

  • FH
    FOUNTAIN HILLS COALITION
    one grant, 2020 · $55k
  • VA
    VENTURE ACADEMIESgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +54%
  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE PENINSUL
    one grant, 2021 · $40k
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
Enterprise for Youth

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.

Youth Development
2
AI4ALL

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.

Youth Development
3
Foundation for a College Education

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…

Education
4
Arizona Community Foundation

To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.

Philanthropy
5
Center for the Future of Arizona

Bringing arizonans together to create a stronger and brighter future for our state.

Community Improvement
6
College Summit Inc

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…

Education
7
Future Founders Foundation

Future founders is building the nation's largest inclusive community of intentional young entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial-minded leaders.

Education
8
Youthbuild Global Inc

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…

Employment
9
The Peak School

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…

Education
10
Arizona Center for Afterschool Excellence Inc

The arizona center for afterschool excellence is dedicated to the enhancement of child and youth development and educational achievement through quality afterschool programming.

Education
11
Exalt Youth

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…

Youth Development
12
California Forward

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,…

Public Benefit
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Youth Frontiers Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

38 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
37/38
Grantees still filing
25/38
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF FOUNTAIN HIL: $230,000 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF FOUNTAIN HILSACRED HEART SCHOOLS ATHERTON: $205,000 · OtherSACRED HEART SCHOOLS ATHERTONFULLER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $150,000 · OtherFULLER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARYSPERO COLLABORATIVE: $125,000 · OtherSPERO COLLABORATIVEFH EXTENDED HANDS FOOD BANK: $115,000 · OtherFH EXTENDED HANDS FOOD BANKTHE NATIONAL FOOTBALL FOUNDATION & COLLEGE HALL OF FAME INC: $100,000 · OtherFOUNTAIN HILLS COMMUNITY THEATRE: $95,000 · OtherWALT GERBER DOCTOR OF MINISTRY SCH: $80,000 · OtherMENLO CHURCH: $73,000 · Other+49 more: $872,400 · Other+49 moreYOUTH FRONTIERS INC: $400,000 · Human ServicesYOUTH FRONTIERS INCYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SILICON VALLEY: $165,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIA…FOSTER YOUR FUTURE: $105,000 · Human ServicesFOSTER YOUR FUTURE+4 more: $25,000 · Human ServicesFOUNTAIN HILLS PTO INC: $310,000 · EducationFOUNTAIN HILLS …CAREMESSAGE: $100,000 · EducationCAREMESSAGEEAST PALO ALTO ACADEMY FOUNDATION: $50,000 · EducationEAST PALO ALTO …VENTURE ACADEMIES: $50,000 · EducationVENTURE ACADEMI…PRESERVE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Education+2 more: $14,100 · EducationRESURGE INTERNATIONAL: $191,500 · InternationalRESURGE I…JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF ARIZONA: $137,000 · InternationalJUNIOR AC…+1 more: $1,000 · InternationalBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE PENINSULA: $120,000 · Youth DevelopmentMALE MOGUL INITIATIVE INC NFP: $5,000 · Youth Development+1 more: $2,500 · Youth DevelopmentTHE CENTER FOR BECOMING: $100,000 · ReligionTRANSFORMING THE BAY WITH CHRIST: $5,000 · ReligionTwin Cities Rise: $60,000 · Employment
Other$2,045,400Human Services$695,000Education$544,100International$329,500Youth Development$127,500Religion$105,000Employment$60,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetYOUTH FRONTIERS INC: $400,000 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetFOUNTAIN HILLS PTO INC: $310,000 over 8y, 52% of budgetRESURGE INTERNATIONAL: $191,500 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SILICON VALLEY: $165,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF ARIZONA: $137,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetSPERO COLLABORATIVE: $125,000 over 2y, 49% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE PENINSULA: $120,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetFOSTER YOUR FUTURE: $105,000 over 5y, 17% of budgetCAREMESSAGE: $100,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR BECOMING: $100,000 over 2y, 8.0% of budgetTwin Cities Rise: $60,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetNCGA FOUNDATION: $57,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetEAST PALO ALTO ACADEMY FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetVENTURE ACADEMIES: $50,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetEXTENDED HANDS FOOD BANK: $40,000 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetFOUNTAIN HILLS CHAMBER FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 2y, 99% of budgetCENTER FOR POLICY DESIGN: $25,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetBRIDGEMAKERS: $20,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetPRESERVE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetLIFEMOVES: $16,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNTAIN HILLS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $11,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCITIZENS LEAGUE: $11,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetASSOCIATION FOR GROWTH AND EDUCATION: $10,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetGOLDEN EAGLE EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $8,000 over 2y, 7.9% of budgetA Chance to Rock: $5,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetFULLER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAMA HOPE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD CHRISTIAN CENTER OF AL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTRANSFORMING THE BAY WITH CHRIST: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMALE MOGUL INITIATIVE INC NFP: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBRANCH SERVICES: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAUSTIN YOUTH & COMMUNITY FARM INC DBA URBAN ROOTS: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetALS Arizona: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAugies Quest to Cure ALS Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEdify: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • 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 EAST PALO ALTO ACADEMY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds VENTURE ACADEMIES ↗
  • 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 ↗

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.

Silicon Valley Commun…The Bradford & Lauren…The San Francisco Fou…Arizona Community Fou…Gs Donor Advised Phil…The Richard M Schulze…Marin Community Found…Saint Paul & Minnesot…The Goldman Sachs Cha…The Minneapolis Found…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…
Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA17.4× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Vcj Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Vcj Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    9report 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.

    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 81 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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