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Ventress 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k23 grants · $75k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $113k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GRACE PLACE | $37,579 |
| ONE BY ONE LEADERSHIP | $37,579 |
| HELPS OUTREACH | $37,579 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY OF ADAMS COUNTY | $9,395 |
| GOLDEN PAWS ASSISTANCE DOGS | $6,290 |
| CAMPING AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $5,500 |
| VAIL MOUNTAIN SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| WARRIOR HOMES OF COLLIER | $5,000 |
| CHILDHOOD FOOD SOLUTIONS | $4,697 |
| MATTHEW 25 MINISTRIES | $4,697 |
| PS 11 PURVIS J BEHAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTA INC | $4,697 |
| MOTHER TERESA CATHOLIC ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | $4,250 |
| YMCA CAMP ERNST | $3,290 |
| REACH OUT LAKOTA | $2,250 |
| UNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION CERF | $2,092 |
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, $27k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 21% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
37 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 19 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
- HOHELPS OUTREACH INC8× · 2017–2025 · $236k · revenue +10%
- CACAMPING AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION7× · 2018–2025 · $29k · revenue +59%
- YMYoung Mens Christian Association of Greater Cincinnati7× · 2018–2025 · $24k · revenue +8%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $6k
HARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +53%- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSEgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +163%
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 goal is to sustainably improve animal welfare, provide veterinary care, and improve veterinary education globally. in order to achieve this goal, we work in over 10 countries, across 5 continents, supporting local people and animals,…
Hero Dogs improves the quality of life of our nations heroes and enhances the services of community organizations by placing assistance dogs with customized training & lifetime support.
Pets for Vets enriches the lives of veterans by creating a life-changing Super Bond with expertly selected and trained shelter or rescue pets. It provides ongoing expert support to ensure a reciprocal and thriving partnership at no cost to…
The organization's mission is to transform the lives of veterans by helping them save an at risk shelter dog or cat, and to end all animal homelessness in the us and enrich the lives of men and women who serve, and have served our country.…
Mercy for animals' mission is to construct a compassionate food system that is not just kind to animals but essential for the future of our planet and all who share it. our vision of a world where animals are respected, protected, and free…
Summit assistance dogs is a nonprofit organization that creates life-changing partnerships by providing highly-trained mobility assistance dogs for people living with disabilities.
On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…
The friends are dedicated to the rescue, protection, and adoption of companion animals in need while inspiring the human-animal bond. we meet our mission by:-saving 100% of healthy and treatable animals.-providing high-quality animal care…
Food & water watch conducts extensive research and public education to ensure the food and water we consume is safe, accessible and sustainably produced. so we can all enjoy and trust in what we eat and drink, we help people take charge of…
Our organization's mission is to raise awareness for and provide physical aid and support to disabled us military veterans. our program covers a crucial gap in the industry-a veteran operated organization, that can assist veterans with…
Many seniors and veterans share their only meal of the day with their companion animals. we deliver pet food for these precious animals so they can remain at home or with their person and not have to be surrendered to shelters.
Sof is called to empower warriors to find purpose, be resilient, and live well. we develop and provide customized treatment plans for veterans through our national network of partners.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. 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 29 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% 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.
46 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. 46 of the 74 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 HELPS OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds CAMPING AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Young Mens Christian Association of Greater Cincinnati ↗
- Who funds Humane Society of Adams County INC ↗
- Who funds VAIL MOUNTAIN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ASHER HOUSE ↗
- Who funds Golden PAWS Assistance Dogs Inc ↗
- Who funds REACH OUT LAKOTA INC ↗
- Who funds WARRIORS HOMES OF COLLIER INC ↗
- Who funds Matthew 25 Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds Pets in Need of Greater Cincinnati Inc ↗
- Who funds Alliance for Period Supplies of SWFL Inc ↗
- Who funds ACHIEVEMENT FIRST INC ↗
- Who funds HOMELESS ANIMAL RESCUE TEAM ↗
- Who funds THE DOE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds HARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds THE BUONICONTI FUND TO CURE PARALYSIS INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDHOOD FOOD SOLUTIONS ↗
- Who funds FREESTORE FOODBANK INC ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC ↗
- Who funds CAMPTOWN INC ↗
- Who funds DREAM CENTERS OF COLORADO SPRINGS ↗
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 Greater Cincinnati Foundation · The Scripps Howard Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Collier Community Foundation Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Fidelity Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Network for Good
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 Ventress 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- Achievement First Inc — 0% 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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