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Venture for America Inc at a glanceMostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

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Venture for America Inc

Venture for america's mission is to responsibly steward its remaining resources while supporting the transition, administrative close-out, and long-term needs of its fellow and alumni community.

$545k
Granted FY2023
1
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$545k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Human Services$545kCommunity Improvement$70kHealth$51kEmployment$48kEducation$40kScience & Tech$38kYouth Development$15kEnvironment$14kOther$0
02FY2023 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$544,590
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEED INFORMATION$544,590
02The need
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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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 95% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%JOBSTEP CO: $10k → 8%REVIVAL CHILI LLC: $11k → 11%Good Medicine Co: $8k → 10%GEM Health Inc: $8k → 14%Lulu Collective LLC: $8k → 17%NEED INFORMATION: $545k → 14%FLOATME CORP: $8k → 16%JOURNI: $20k → 21%REBUNDLE LLC: $15k → 15%BOLD XCHANGE INC: $15k → 10%CLINISPAN HEALTH INC: $20k → 13%The Bus for Outdoor Access and Teaching: $14k → 12%LARVIO BIOCONVERSIONS LLC: $8k → 15%Healthy Roots: $15k → 16%PEOPLE OPERATIONS INC (GATHER): $8k → 17%RECLINE LLC: $12k → 23%HiveLend: $10k → 19%PathSpot: $7k → 21%REBUNDLE LLC: $8k → 15%SWEAT SEAL: $23k → 15%Rebel Nell: $20k → 21%ATHLYTIC INC: $30k → 21%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

MI
NY
MA
OH
PA
CA
CO
MO
MD
NC
LA
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 7% of Venture for America Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Venture for America Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its field
05the grantee network

2 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. 2 of the 22 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
2/2
Grantees still filing
2/2
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NEED INFORMATION: $544,590 · OtherNEED INFORMATIONATHLYTIC: $30,000 · Other+18 more: $218,500 · Other+18 moreJourni Incorporated: $20,000 · EducationTHE BUS FOR OUTDOOR ACCESS AND TEACHING: $14,000 · Environment
Other$793,090Education$20,000Environment$14,000

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

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJourni Incorporated: $20,000 over 1y, 13% 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 Journi Incorporated ↗
  • Who funds THE BUS FOR OUTDOOR ACCESS AND TEACHING ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Venture for America Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Venture for America Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%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
    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 22 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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