Skip to content
Vehr Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Vehr Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$228k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$383kEducation$241kHealth$148kFood & Nutrition$145kHuman Services$40kRecreation & Sports$31kArts & Culture$3kOther$0
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $3k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $40k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $185k
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NAMAHANA EDUCATION PROGRAM$100,000
THE GARUNA FOUNDATION$85,000
ST VINCENT DE PAUL$10,000
MULTIPLE MYELOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATIO$10,000
ST MARY'S FOOD BANK$10,000
SUSAN G KOMEN$10,000
QUAIL RUN LADIES 9-HOLE GOLD LEAGUE$2,500
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 (FY23–23, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%GIVE TO GIVE FOUNDATION: $40k → 17%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

NY
WY
CT
CA
VA
AZ
NM
NC
HI
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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$864k · 9 repeat orgs$131k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against -5% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
8

Total granted

$864k
$131k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
-5%

Still filing today

78%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’22’23’24
Food & NutritionEducationHealthHuman ServicesReligionEnvironmentOther
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

  • TG
    THE GARUNA FOUNDATION
    5× · 2018–2024 · $285k · revenue +192%
  • SM
    ST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE
    6× · 2018–2024 · $125k · revenue +53%
  • TS
    The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc
    4× · 2019–2024 · $83k · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • TG
    THE GIVE TO GIVE FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $40k · revenue +39%
  • PS
    PHILMONT SCOUT RANCH
    one grant, 2022 · $23k
  • MK
    MALAMA KAUAI
    one grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue -5%
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
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Fdn Group

Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.

—
2
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
3
Gastric Cancer Foundation

The gastric cancer foundation helps patients to face their diagnosis with reliable information, tools to navigate the journey, and a compassionate community that truly understands. the foundation funds research initiatives that contribute…

Health
4
International Myeloma Foundation

Dedicated to improving the quality of life of myeloma patients while working toward prevention and a cure.

Unclassified
5
Saint John's Cancer Institute

To support research and development of, and education in, the basic and clinical sciences for the prevention, detection, diagnosis, and treatment of cancer.

Health
6
Los Angeles Mission College Foundation

The specific purpose for which the los angeles mission college foundation has been established is to advance the college's educational and cultural goals.

—
7
Mollen Foundation for Childhood Obesity

The mollen foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, guides farmers, schools, and their communities to nourish a regenerative future. our regenerative schools approach fosters lifelong well-being through farm-to-school integration, leadership…

Education
8
Gastro Intestinal Research Foundation Inc

The GI Research Foundation works to treat, prevent, and cure digestive diseases. In collaboration with the physicians and scientists at the University of Chicago Digestive Diseases Center, we fund innovative clinical and laboratory…

Health
9
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc

The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…

Health
10
University of Hawaii Foundation

To unite donors' passions with the university of hawai'i's (uh) aspirations by raising philanthropic support and managing investments to benefit uh, the people of hawai'i and our future generations.

Education
11
Mount Saint Mary's University

See schedule o.mount saint mary's university offers a dynamic learning experience in liberal arts & sciences to a diverse student body. as a catholic university founded primarily for women, we are dedicated to providing superior education…

Education
12
Marc Lustgarten Pancreatic Cancer Foundation

The lustgarten foundation is the largest private funder of pancreatic cancer research in the world. see schedule o.the lustgarten foundation is boldly leading the way through hope and innovation, turning fear into action through education…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Give to Give Foundation; the most unlike its peers is University of Santa Monica. 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

10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 17 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
6/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE GARUNA FOUNDATION: $285,000 · Food & NutritionTHE GARUNA FOUNDATIONST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE: $125,000 · Food & NutritionST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCENAMAHANA EDUCATION PROGRAM: $150,000 · OtherNAMAHANA EDUCATION PROGRA…PHILMONT SCOUT RANCH: $23,103 · OtherPHILMONT SCOUT RANCHMONTGOMERY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · OtherMONTGOMERY COMMUNITY COLL…CATHOLIC CHARITIES USA: $18,046 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES USA+4 more: $15,000 · Other+4 moreThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc: $83,000 · HealthThe Susan G Kome…THE MULTIPLE MYELOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $65,000 · HealthTHE MULTIPLE MYE…DIOCESAN COUNCIL FOR THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESE PHOENIX: $80,000 · ReligionDIOCESAN …University of Santa Monica: $55,000 · EducationLOS OJOS DE LA FAMILIA LTD: $16,015 · EducationTHE GIVE TO GIVE FOUNDATION: $40,000 · Human ServicesMALAMA KAUAI: $20,000 · Environment
Food & Nutrition$410,000Other$226,149Health$148,000Religion$80,000Education$71,015Human Services$40,000Environment$20,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE GARUNA FOUNDATION: $285,000 over 5y, 6.1% of budgetST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE: $125,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc: $83,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDIOCESAN COUNCIL FOR THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESE PHOENIX: $80,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MULTIPLE MYELOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $65,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Santa Monica: $55,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetTHE GIVE TO GIVE FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetMALAMA KAUAI: $20,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetLOS OJOS DE LA FAMILIA LTD: $16,015 over 4y, 8.0% 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.

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.

Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO5.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    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 17 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

    Play a game based on Vehr Family’s filings →

    More from the funding graph

    The unnamed billions
    grants reported with no recipient in the public record
    The regranting layer
    51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
    The DAF merry-go-round
    $9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
    The endowment market
    who holds foundation money, and what just moved
    The camps
    funders cluster by geography, not ideology
    By state
    where grant money is based, and what stays home