How much does Verne G and Judith a Istock Foundation give?

Verne G and Judith a Istock Foundation reported 42 grants totaling $1,199,129 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 33 and 73 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.

What does Verne G and Judith a Istock Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2023, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (48%), Education (18%), Health (8%).

Who are Verne G and Judith a Istock Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2023: Artis-Naples Inc ($912k), Chi Psi Educational Trust Inc ($292k), The Chicago Academy of Sciences ($98k).

Does Verne G and Judith a Istock Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Verne G and Judith a Istock Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Verne G and Judith a Istock Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Collier Community Foundation Inc, William T & Ann D McCormick Educational and Charitable Foundation, Frey Foundation.

Where is Verne G and Judith a Istock Foundation based?

Verne G and Judith a Istock Foundation is based in FL.

Verne G and Judith a Istock Foundation

Verne G and Judith a Istock Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Verne G and Judith a Istock Foundation

Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.2M

Granted FY2023

Grants FY2023

States reached

$500k

Largest

01What it funds

0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2023.

Arts & Culture$1.4MEducation$502kHealth$227kPhilanthropy$138kReligion$136kEnvironment$135kHousing & Shelter$91kRecreation & Sports$67kOther$0

02FY2023 · 42 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

Under $10k18 grants · $59k
$10k–50k20 grants · $340k
$50k–250k3 grants · $300k
$250k+1 grant · $500k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
ARTIS NAPLES	$500,000
CHI PSI EDUCATIONAL TRUST	$200,000
ARTIS NAPLES	$50,000
ARTIS NAPLES	$50,000
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN-BIOLOGICAL STATION	$30,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY	$25,000
Individual grant recipient	$25,000
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN-ARTS FOR THE DR CONRAD A & NANCY SMITH ISTOCK SCH	$25,000
MERIT SCHOOL OF MUSIC	$25,000
MERIT SCHOOL OF MUSIC	$25,000
PROSPECT HILL ACADEMY	$25,000
ARTIS NAPLES	$20,000
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN-MEN OF MICHIGAN PROSTATECANCER RESEARCH FUND	$15,000
NCH HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION	$15,000
UNITED WAY OF COLLIER COUNTY	$15,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–22, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$2.3M · 52 repeat orgs$521k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +45% since the first grant, against +24% for those funded once.

52 repeat relationships: 27 still active in FY2023, 25 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.3M

$459k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%

+24%

Still filing today

73%

39%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $62k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationArts & CultureHealthPhilanthropyEnvironmentHuman ServicesOther

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

AI
ARTIS-NAPLES INC
4× · 2020–2023 · $912k · revenue +14%
TC
THE CHICAGO ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
3× · 2020–2022 · $98k · revenue +19%
MS
MERIT SCHOOL OF MUSIC
3× · 2021–2023 · $98k · revenue +36%

Funded once

HF
Habitat for Humanity of Collier County Incgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $52k · revenue +173%
UO
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN BASKETBALL SCHOLARSHIP FUND
one grant, 2022 · $50k
MS
MERIT SCHOOL OF MUSIC CHICAGO
one grant, 2020 · $35k

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.

United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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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

Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health

Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education

Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education

American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech

University Family Physicians Inc

Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…

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American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

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Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education

University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

See schedule ouniversity corporation for atmospheric research (ucar), on behalf of, and in cooperation with its member university members, is engaged in the management of long-term atmospheric and related research and educational…

Science & Tech

Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Shelter for Abused Women & Children Inc; the most unlike its peers is National Geographic Society. 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

73 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 73 of the 134 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

71/73

Grantees still filing

56/73

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Arts & Culture$1,286,000Other$948,179Education$351,496Health$93,000Housing & Shelter$61,000Philanthropy$59,000Environment$41,000

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

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.

Collier Community Foundation IncFL19.1× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Collier Community Foundation Inc · William T & Ann D McCormick Educational and Charitable Foundation · Frey Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Petoskey-Harbor Springs Area Community Foundation · Patrick G and Shirley W Ryan Foundation · The Offield Family Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · Charles Stewart Mott Foundation · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Bessemer Giving Fund

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 Verne G and Judith a Istock Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Verne G and Judith a Istock Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

6get no government money at all

14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

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.

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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

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The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home