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Venues Parks & Arts Foundation

Vpa foundation provides resources to build community through people, parks, public spaces and programs. The organization was established to serve as a not-for-profit organization with the purpose to provide discretionary funding to cultivate increased awareness in the mission, value and to provide fundraising for the city of south bend…

$6.2M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
1
Grants FY2024
1
Organizations funded FY2020
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Median grant, FY2024
$6,200,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$6,200,000
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$4.0M
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Public Benefit$6.2MRecreation & Sports$245k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
City of South Bend$6,200,0001n/a
Friends of Studebaker Fountain Inc$245,330196%

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About Venues Parks & Arts Foundation

How much does Venues Parks & Arts Foundation give?
Venues Parks & Arts Foundation reported 1 grants totaling $6,200,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing.
What does Venues Parks & Arts Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Public Benefit (96%), Recreation & Sports (4%).
Who are Venues Parks & Arts Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: City of South Bend ($6.2M), Friends of Studebaker Fountain Inc ($245k).
Where is Venues Parks & Arts Foundation based?
Venues Parks & Arts Foundation is based in IN.

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 2 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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