· Private foundation
Vegfund Inc
VEGFUND PROVIDES GRANTS TO VEGAN ACTIVISTS TO ENABLE THEIR EDUCATIONAL OUTREACH TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC ABOUT THE BENEFITS OF VEGAN LIVING.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k264 grants · $453k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $37k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $193k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VEGANUARY | $75,000 |
| PROVEG (FKA VIVA LAS VEGA'S) | $64,721 |
| THE HUMANE LEAGUE | $53,199 |
| ANIMAL EQUALITY - SPAIN | $13,448 |
| FOOD FOR CLIMATE LEAGUE INC | $12,500 |
| ASSOCIACIA VEGETARIANA PORTUGUESA | $10,572 |
| A WELL FED WORLD | $8,000 |
| ANIMAL EQUALITY - MEXICO | $7,658 |
| ANIMAL EQUALITY - ITALY | $7,500 |
| ONE STEP FOR ANIMALS | $7,500 |
| FRIENDS OF HUMANE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL | $7,500 |
| BLACK VEGETARIAN SOCIETY OF MARYLAND | $7,500 |
| THE PLANTRICIAN PROJECT | $7,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,500 |
| ANIMAL EQUALITY - UNITED KINGDOM | $7,287 |
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 US giving — 49% of grant dollars ($2.8M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 51% that went abroad ($2.9M) is mapped below.
Your human-services grants (FY20–22, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 92% 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
Beyond the US — 51% of all-years giving ($2.9M)
69 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
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 +44% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.
226 repeat relationships — 137 still active in FY2023, 89 since wound down; 133 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $183k 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
- THTHE HUMANE LEAGUE5× · 2017–2023 · $925k · revenue +213%
- OSONE STEP FOR ANIMALS3× · 2017–2023 · $165k · revenue +46%
- RFReal Food for Kids3× · 2020–2022 · $63k · revenue +47%
Funded once
- ECEXPANDED CIRCLE COLLECTIVE-BETTER EATINGone grant, 2020 · $47k
- PBPLANT BASED FOODS ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2020 · $40k
- PBPLANT BASED FOODS ASSOCIATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $35k · revenue +285%
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.
Our mission is to promote a world where all beings live a just life of dignity and respect. To this end, we engage in practical actions, raise funds, spread understanding and foster compassion.
We firmly believe that the animal welfare and vegan community can significantly enhance their impact by extending their efforts to all corners of the world. Our dedication is to facilitate and contribute to this global outreach, striving…
Our mission at Peaceful Prairie Sanctuary is to provide a safe, loving and permanent home for rescued farmed animals whom are not accepted at most shelters. In addition to providing life-long care for the animals, we are dedicated to…
Growing respect and acceptance for veganism through our dedicated work of rescue and creative care, impactful vegan food programs, vibrant education, and consistent advocacy; all strengthened by our engagement with a rising global network…
To provide refuge for unwanted farmed animals, to further their welfare through education of the public and to foster ethics of compassion and responsibility towards nonhuman animals by advocating a vegan lifestyle.
This organization was formed to promote the vegan lifestyle and to promote respect and care for all animals.
Exposing and eliminating animal cruelty.
HUMANE WORLD FOR ANIMALS INTERNATIONAL, FKA HUMANE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL (HSI), works around the globe to promote the human-animal bond, rescue and protect dogs and cats, improve farm animal welfare, protect wildlife, promote animal-free…
Animal and Vegan Advocacy International, Inc. is dedicated to creating a world in which animals are removed from the food system and other human uses. It furthers this mission by convening advocates through an international conference…
We partner with brands restaurants and communities to inspire plant-based eating everywhere by providing free assistance including marketing PR and consultation.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Animal Outlook Inc and the most unlike its peers is Charlies Acres. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 11 years old; the field is 16. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% 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.
118 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. 118 of the 663 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 THE HUMANE LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds ONE STEP FOR ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds Real Food for Kids ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE EARTH ↗
- Who funds A Well-Fed World ↗
- Who funds ACTASIA INC ↗
- Who funds SENTIENT MEDIA ↗
- Who funds UnchainedTV ↗
- Who funds VEGAN JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds PLANT BASED FOODS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds BLACK VEGETARIAN SOCIETY OF MARYLAND ↗
- Who funds ROCHESTER LIFESTYLE MEDICINE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds AKASHINGA INC ↗
- Who funds The Raven Corps ↗
- Who funds Peace Advocacy Network ↗
- Who funds Food Empowerment Project ↗
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: The Quinn Foundation · Animal Charity Evaluators · A Well-Fed World · The Greenbaum Foundation · Karuna Foundation · Nalith Inc · Humane America Animal Foundation · The Summerlee Foundation · Tipping Point Private Foundation · Builders Vision Foundation · Aceso Foundation Inc · Impactassetsinc
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 Vegfund 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.
- Newark Community Street Team Inc — 38% of income from government
- Medstar Health Inc — 23% of income from government
- The Center for Independent Documentary Inc — 6% 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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